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The policy is the equivalent of sending alcoholics to the pub so they can "drink safely". The moment one examines the logic it falls apart.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley @sGovanhill en
No it isn’t, it is offering them a medically supervised facility where they can get clean needles, be saved if they OD and supported to engage with treatment services which they don’t engage with now due to the severity of their addiction & chaotic lives.
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Als antwoord op @MhairiHunter @sGovanhill en
That can be done without any such facility. Naloxone can be given to such people. No reason to facilitate injecting drugs and maintain addiction
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley @sGovanhill en
Not as easily. There are over 60 of these facilities worldwide which have not only reduced drug fatalities but increased engagement with treatment. The evidence is overwhelming that this will save lives.
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Als antwoord op @MhairiHunter @sGovanhill en
Rarely is evidence overwhelming except when compared to status quo. There are far better solutions whose end point is not maintaining addiction but reducing overdoses. That falls short of how to manage a curable condition, which addiction is.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley @sGovanhill en
There aren’t better solutions for this group of drug users. As I have said this is a targeted intervention not a general service.
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Als antwoord op @MhairiHunter @sGovanhill en
I would be better to sanction the littering of used needles separately from dug use: they can and should be DNA tested and the criminal prosecuted. The line n the sand is harm to others. That should not be blended into the overall picture.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley @sGovanhill en
Prosecuting people for having an addiction is a terrible idea.
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Please do not twist words. No such thing was said. Very irresponsible for it to be insinuated. Prosecution for dropping needles where children can pick them up is different to addiction.
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