"Safe" injection sites safe for WHO?
The opioid epidemic has ballooned to tragic proportions in
North America. Now in an effort to reduce overdose deaths, some are proposing
the creation of safe injection sites similar to the one in Toronto featured in
the above video. But I believe that these sites are not the answer to the
nation’s drug problem.
These sites
will create more crime. As we all know, junkies are not to be trusted. They even
steal from their closest friends and family members to feed their sick and
sinful addictions, and they will not hesitate to commit gruesome acts of
violence against strangers to steal money for a fix. These so called “safe”
injection sites would anything but safe for the honest people living in the
neighborhoods they pop up in like fungus after a rainstorm. Imagine the
property crimes that would occur. Car break ins, shoplifting, and even
burglary. No thank you!
Of course,
these sites would draw junkies to them, creating filthy hobo villages in
neighborhoods previously clean and tidy. Residents would soon be accosted by
ugly homeless drug users every time they set foot out of their home on their
way to work or to walk their dog. Thriving black markets would be the natural
outcome of these conditions, with drug dealers hawking their disgusting wares
openly day and night to the vile shells of human beings on their way to shoot
up at the injection sites.
Finally,
these sites would normalize drug use. With our brave men and women in law
enforcement powerless to arrest junkies at these sites, more people would begin
using intravenous drugs because they would be seen as less likely to get busted
for doing so, as long as they stuck to these abhorrent tent villages. And think
of the children! It makes me sick to imagine explaining the goings-on at these
lurid shooting galleries to my precious angel child as we walk past on the way
to a day of healthy family fun in a local park. How do I shelter them from life’s
grim realities when drug use is happening openly on our streets and the police
and politicians turn a blind eye to it?
What we
really need in this country is a strong leader like President Duterte of the
Philippines. He knows how to deal with the drug problem: lock them all up,
junkies and dealers alike, and throw away the key. And if you can’t lock them
up, well, violence is a strong deterrent also. Many drug dealers have met their
fates at the hands of police in the Philippines, but then that’s far fewer
dealers selling to children on the streets! Yes, it’s a drastic solution, but the
problem has become out of control. Safe injection sites are a foolish and naïve
solution to a problem best addressed with an iron-clad fist.
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