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> but they also get free needles to help their habit They're not getting free needles to "help their habit", they're getting them so they don't re-use or share
by FireBeyond 6mo ago
> but they also get free needles to help their habit
They're not getting free needles to "help their habit", they're getting them so they don't re-use or share. Because what's more difficult to help than an addict? An addict with a communicable, potentially fatal, illness.
I am an ex-paramedic. I've lost track of the number of times I've administered narcan, gone to ODs, seen the sheer disaster of cotton fever (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23528959/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23528959/). Free needles isn't encouraging people to keep their habit going, it's a means of not adding one more route to death's door.
- archagon 6mo agoThe boiling, unspoken subtext to anti-homeless vitriol is often “well, they should just die then.” On occasion, they actually say it out loud: https://endhomelessness.org/media/news-releases/national-alliance-to-end-homelessness-calls-for-immediate-firing-of-fox-news-anchor-over-calls-for-execution-of-people-experiencing-homelessness/ https://endhomelessness.org/media/news-releases/national-all...
- archagon 6mo agoAlso, the fact that FireBeyond's comment is downvoted is a massive indictment of this community. They said absolutely nothing worth downvoting for. The hatred for the homeless is sickening.