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New York City Just Announced It Will Open Safe Injection Sites
BuzzFeed ^ | May 3, 2018 | Azeen Ghorayshi

Posted on 05/04/2018 12:51:54 PM PDT by detective

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday evening that the city would push a plan to open so-called safe injection sites for heroin users, part of an effort to reduce an epidemic of deadly drug overdoses across the city. The facilities, also known as overdose prevention centers, provide drug users with access to clean needles and space to inject drugs. They are overseen by staff trained to use the overdose-reversing antidote naloxone and suggest addiction treatment options for illicit drug users.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: heroin; nyc
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What could be safer than a place where addicts can inject heroin whenever they want.
1 posted on 05/04/2018 12:51:54 PM PDT by detective
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Hey, this is OK! They can sign up for welfare benefits, shoot up and then register to vote in one single location. If only we could figure out how to benefit the teacher’s union, we’d have the Daily 4.


2 posted on 05/04/2018 12:54:23 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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Enabling, abetting criminal behavior.


3 posted on 05/04/2018 12:54:40 PM PDT by ryderann
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Just for de Blasio and his family or for everyone?


4 posted on 05/04/2018 12:55:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Are taxpayers providing the heroin too?


5 posted on 05/04/2018 12:56:05 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: detective

I guess this is his plan to exterminate the heroin users.


6 posted on 05/04/2018 12:57:34 PM PDT by Brilliant
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💉. Really? I knew duh blaze EE o had a big ass, but damn.
7 posted on 05/04/2018 12:58:22 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Will De Blazing Idiot also provide the heroin too?

If not, why not? What if some druggie injects fentanyl laced heroin and dies?

New York could be sued!

Better to supply the needs and the drugs. And of course have a trained nurse administer the correct dosage.

I wish I could add a sarcasm tag here, but I can’t. The absolutely insane idea this idiot is posing is more than the wildest satire I could imagine.


8 posted on 05/04/2018 1:02:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Sure, that’ll stop ‘em.


9 posted on 05/04/2018 1:02:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Brilliant

I guess this is his plan to exterminate the heroin users.

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Either eliminate them, or triple the number of uses by making the process “safer”.


10 posted on 05/04/2018 1:03:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Can't imagine the neighbors would inobject. /s
11 posted on 05/04/2018 1:06:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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One day De Blazing Idiot was walking in the park. He saw a lonely despondent man about to kill himself.

He rushed over to the man as the poor soul was pointing the business end of a shotgun into his mouth and stopped him.

“STOP! Don’t do that! That barrel is dirty. Here. Let me clean it up for you first.”

As Idiot walked home, he had this brilliant idea on how he could help junkies...

And now you know the rest of the story.


12 posted on 05/04/2018 1:08:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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And once registered to vote, they will vote for decades after their overdose. Great way to recruit Demorat votes.


13 posted on 05/04/2018 1:11:21 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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We do now! No the formal program will be announced with a Press Release and a news conference with Prince Andrew and a placard “Ever Upyours”...


14 posted on 05/04/2018 1:11:33 PM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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They are overseen by staff trained to use the overdose-reversing antidote naloxone and suggest addiction treatment options for illicit drug users.

How much would they have to pay you to take that job?

15 posted on 05/04/2018 1:13:18 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Didn’t we try this in the 1970s with ‘free’ needle exchanges?


16 posted on 05/04/2018 1:17:24 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Oh puleeze, who wouldn’t want to live there? It’ll be as nice as Amsterdam in no time.


17 posted on 05/04/2018 1:17:35 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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Wasn’t that tried in places like Amsterdam and San Francisco?

How well does that work out? Who pays the freight? (dumb question I know)


18 posted on 05/04/2018 1:20:36 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Please tell me this is from The Onion.

Very little difference between Liberal ideas and Onion articles.


19 posted on 05/04/2018 1:26:30 PM PDT by Angels27
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Even small, conservative towns are opening these sites nowadays. In my town one is opening (for needle exchange) four hours a week, so at least it doesn’t have a 24x7 presence with fulltime clientele.


20 posted on 05/04/2018 1:32:45 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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