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Fucking NIMBYs ruining everything for everyone.
There is an issue they we need more then just safe consumption sites. We need the support network to help people get out of the situations that are causing them to use. And we don’t have that.
You're right, but that's not a reason to close safe injection sites. Generally, we need to stop treating addicts like criminals. Addiction is a disease, and the corrective action is healthcare.
Yes but policy makers HATE to acknowledge that poverty and social issues underlie many of our problems.
That's too complicated. The easy answer is that addicts are bad evil people who deserve to live in misery and agony and any kindness towards them is an act of moral weakness.
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Sure but they can’t be alll we do and that seems to be all we do. Which is not helping anyone.
Honest question, would you live next to one?
I ask cause I never had an issue with them. They put one up in the plaza near me and now my building has constant break ins, car thefts, property damage, etc. It's great for the addicts, they're safer, but now they all hang out in that plaza and surrounding areas all day.
Anyways why not in a hospital? I don't get why this has to happen in residential areas?
I mean, this is NIMBYism. These break-ins and car thefts were happening anyway and needed something done about them, now it's just happening in your back yard. The main difference is that the only way you could change it and shove the break-ins back where you dont see them is if you and your neighbors were rich.
Except giving people access to drugs is not helping anything. They come shoot up and since they’re around do shit. Giving them drugs is not the answer to fixing the problem. We need social programs to help people get out of the situation that caused the use in the first place.
I would rather not to, so if one was planned to open next to my house, I'd consider moving out. However, I would not fight against opening one because I know society needs these. Let me put it this way: I'd hate to live next to a fire station or a an emergency hospital, but I know the city needs those so I will fight for them to exist but I'd move away from them whenever necessary to protect my sleep and peace of mind.
This is a different question altogether to your first question, and you'll get a better answer by talking to specialists.