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dilemma probably is, if you build restrooms, they will do drug in there.
by frostyj 7y ago
dilemma probably is, if you build restrooms, they will do drug in there.
- J5892 7y agoIs that worse than them shooting up in the middle of the street?
- frostyj 7y agothat can be discovered and rescued, but not if they just shoot in a cubicle that no one even knows they are there I guess. That's the only(?) explanation on why SF closed up all public restrooms on Market street
- archie2 7y agoI've seen restrooms in businesses that are installing blacklights instead of standard fluorescent/LEDs to deter people from using drugs in them - because you can't see your veins under a black light.
- catalogia 7y agoI believe they use blue LEDs, not blacklights (which are UV.)
- KingMachiavelli 7y ago> that can be discovered and rescued, I don't know if anyone would describe being thrown in an American prison 'rescued'.
- J5892 7y agoI assume he meant given medical attention if they overdose.
- baddox 7y agoDiscovery isn't a problem here. It doesn't take a crack detective (pun intended) to discover people doing drugs on the streets of San Francisco.
- forinti 7y agoGive them a better place to do drugs; a place where they get free needles and can throw away the old ones properly (so they won't leave them lying about).
- frostyj 7y agoI can't really understand the attitude such as 'if they want to do drug, let them do it in a safe way at least'. It sounds compassionate and all, but isn't doing drug just, WRONG? I somehow feel this is an encouragement to them.
- Jamwinner 7y agoNo, doing drugs is not wrong. Caffiene is a drug, beer is a drug, is pot worse? Where does someone else get to draw then line for each of us personally if not ourselves? An adult has the inalienable right to do what they want with their own body.
- bdamm 7y agoThis is similar perhaps to viewing the distribution of condoms in high school as wrong. Wouldn't that encourage teens to have sex? But when you look at the data, you see that kids who go to high schools with access to condoms have lower rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs. So, did the condoms encourage sex? Hard to say. Did the condoms reduce the problems that are associated with sex? Yes. Similarly, do safe injection sites encourage drug use? No, because drug use is going to happen regardless of the presence of safe injection sites. It does, however, make it much easier to transition drug addicts into programs that can help them. The data is there. So bottom line; if you don't like having dirty needles about and open drug use, support safe injection sites. Likewise, if you don't like teenagers getting pregnant or getting STDs, then support access to sex ed and condoms.
- zdragnar 7y agoDepending on the drug, not continuing to do it may be fatal (this includes alcohol with a sufficient level of addiction). Knowing that there is a safe place to go and treatment for it might reduce some inhibitions about it, but I doubt that many, if any at all, would actually start doing such hard drugs because of places like this. More likely, if someone is in a position where they would consider doing it in the first place, they would do it anyway.
- baddox 7y agoThat’s not a dilemma, that’s a solution to two problems.
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