Reply #30: What good does this do? Any? [View All]

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Well, it does keep the ugly junkies out of sight, but what does it do to help them? From the article:

"So far this year, 37 people have died of overdose deaths . . . this year in Vancouver," Mr. Campbell said in an interview. "What I hope is that it's going to prevent 37 people from dying."

How so? Shooting up in a little room is hardly different than shooting up in a doorway.

"It's saying, you the user are a human being and deserve to be treated like one, not just die in an alley."

Instead, they can die in a little room? I used to live right next door to an open air heroin market. I've been attacked by a junkie. I've seen people shoot up. The only solution is to arrest junkies and send them to involuntary detox and rehab programs. That is, if you actually want to save their lives, not just keep them out of public view.

The heroin market is *huge* of course, and seems to have high level people profiting from it, just remember as soon as the US outsted the Taliban from Afghanistan, the heroin started flowingly freely again.

(Needle exchange on the other hand is very good because it lessens transmissions of AIDS and Hep.)