Brighton considers 'drug-use rooms'
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22188476
Can understand they want to cut drug related deaths but is this not just saying to the addicts it is okay to take the illegal drugs.
Although these drug use rooms are available in Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and Australia. So maybe they are helpful, just seems a strange move on the surface
Can understand they want to cut drug related deaths but is this not just saying to the addicts it is okay to take the illegal drugs.
Although these drug use rooms are available in Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and Australia. So maybe they are helpful, just seems a strange move on the surface
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
My knee-jerk reaction is to think they probably wouldn't see a lot of use.
Seems like most "normal" people who use drugs would probably prefer to do so in the comfort of their own home rather than in some random building and surely such a place would become a target for all sorts of people from drug-dealers, muggers and thieves to hard-line anti-drug types?
generally, they just want to get a hit as soon as they can, they aren`t bothered about getting home first or their surroundings. i think it`s a really good idea, it would surely cut down the numbers of abandoned sharps and nodders on benches, it would be even better if they had some kind of detox/rehab presence.
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i see they`re also calling for increased naltrexone scripted:cool:, there should be less meth scripted too, it`s maintenance, nothing else, they aren`t called drug dependency units for nothing.
Hmm, I guess it'd depend on the sort of drug users around.
I can't say I know a lot of drug users but I do know that my town has a fairly big drug problem and that, even so, we rarely see or hear about people doing drugs in public.
I guess that if you were the stereotypical "junkie" it might be better to use one of these places rather than shooting up in an abandoned building or public loo but, as I say, I wonder how many people like that there actually are and, of course, if there are enough of them to make such a place viable, isn't that going to attract other sorts of crime to the area?
the rooms under consideration in brighton are aimed at the needle population. my guess is they`d be located somewhere near the ddu, it`ll already have attracted all the crime it`s going to get.
i could see that addicts would be put off by the potential for undercover police presence.
I'm guessing that you're still young enough to see the world in black and white.
You have a point. They should either decriminalise and have centers, programmes such as this, for safe use, or they should retain prohibition and stick to it.
Secondly, I thought class-A drug use was illegal - but of course they plan to lobby for a change in the law. Bit by bit, they grab a bit more.
And the tax-payers of Brighton are now buying drugs for junkies? How do they feel about that?
where`s that bit?
The legalisation mob ?
Refuse to pay your taxes and keep ignoring court summonses and then resist arrest and see what happens.
Ultimately force will be used, violent if necessary.
do you have any links?
thought not.
Tell you what - let's allow Brighton to do this, as long as they build a big fence around their madhouse and have border controls.
some actual facts or news links?
it`s certainly not in my general knowledge.
Yes, they call themselves the Green Party:
http://younggreens.greenparty.org.uk/AboutUs/Policy/Drugs
What are you on about? Don't you have any concept of what will happen to you ultimately if you continually refuse to pay up or cooperate?
You will find yourself locked in a cell.
Go on give it a try.
it was the violence i was referring to.
Did you read the article ? They are NOT buying drugs for junkies .They're wanting to provide a safe place for addicts to use .Away from schools and public places .