With one out of every seven emergency calls being related to drug overdose and with 11,000 - 15,00 drug abusers in San Francisco, the city’s officials have purposed a plan to eliminate deaths related to drugs. Purposed is a safe injection site where users can shoot up an array of drugs such as, heroine, cocaine, and methamphetamines, while being simultaneously watched and observed by a trained nursing staff. This staff would not provide help during the process nor provide the drug itself but would make sure that the user would be out of harms way. Supposedly, Vancouver has already set up a safe injection site that has served about 8,000 registered users over the past four years and there is still yet to be a death on the premises. Other studies have shown that this safe site has lead to the decrease in sharing needles, abandoned needles, and drug related crime.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303425,00.html
When I first saw this article, I couldn’t believe that San Francisco’s city officials would actually consider giving drug abusers a place to shoot up or get high. If anything, the city should use the money to provide more options of rehabilitation to the homeless not more options to use the drugs. But, after reading the article, I guess it would be better if they “used” in a supervised facility where they could receive immediate medical attention if needed.
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I cant beleive that the San Francisco city officials would set up a safe house where drug abusers could go to do what they do but then again you never know they may just be setting this place up just so that they can catch a few. either way we would never know.
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