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Title: Philadelphia's Government 'Expresses Interest' in Safe Injection Sites - new District Attorney also supports Shooting Galleries
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Reason
URL Source: http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/23/p ... y-government-expresses-interes
Published: Jan 24, 2018
Author: Ed Krayewski
Post Date: 2018-01-24 23:07:46 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 747
Comments: 6
Philadelphia officials are now open to allowing safe injection sites for heroin users. The city's health commissioner, Thomas Farley, does not yet have details about how such sites would be run, who would run them, or who would pay for them, looking instead to solicit for proposals from private and non-profit organizations. "Part of what we're doing today is expressing interest," he told the local NBC affiliate. The announcement comes on the heels of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's decision to offer a range of waivers for regulations that have made it harder for substance abusers to access life-saving treatments. Jeanette Bowles, a public health researcher who served on Philadelphia's Opioid Task Force Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention Subcommittee, told Reason's Mike Riggs earlier this month that she hopes the governor's new policy means the state "might not get in the way" of a supervised injection facility. (Bowles' old subcommittee has recommended safe injection sites as a way to mitigate overdose deaths, which are a growing problem in the city.) Philadelphia's new district attorney, Larry Krasner, endorsed the idea of safe injection sites while campaigning for the office last year, saying he'd support "properly run and appropriately supervised injection facilities." Police Commissioner Richard Ross has said he an open mind about safe injection sites—but with "a lot" of questions. "What would our role be? What does that look like to us? What am I asking police officers to do?" he said to PhillyVoice. A similar effort in Vermont has been stymied by U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan, who declared that safe injection sites would "encourage and normalize heroin use" after the state legislature began to consider such a proposal. Safe injection sites currently operate in parts of Europe as well as Vancouver, offering American officials a number of models to consider. There are not yet any sites in the United States, although there are efforts to establish them in California and Seattle. Poster Comment: I wonder if they offer free bus service to the polling places? 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
We just need to offer free clean up of the dead shitbags. The beauty of a fatal overdose... even a millennial can't fuck that up or ask "why" after. Keep thinning the herd, Mother Nature. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
While they are all passed out, put them on one of those garbage barges, tow them to sea, and sink it.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
Perhaps they can make the facility pay for itself by combining a safe injection site with a brothel and gambling. A percentage of the action on gambling and prostitution will pay for the injection site along with free needles, free heroin, free doctors and a comfortable bed with flat screen and cable. And a box lunch.
Hondopers libertarian paradise is a room full of needles.
I guess I'm in Trump hell, because I've got ZERO needles and no dope? I can see why an addict would think that.
#2. To: GrandIsland (#1)
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
Philadelphia officials are now open to allowing safe injection sites for heroin users.
#4. To: hondo68 (#0)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
Hondopers libertarian paradise is a room full of needles.
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#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
guess I'm in Trump hell, because I've got ZERO needles and no dope?
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