WE ARE GOING TO SHUT DOWN SAN FRANCISCO’S SICK AND SINISTER MEDICAL EXPERIMENT ON THE MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY OCCURRING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN THE PUBLICLY-OWNED UNITED NATIONS PLAZA
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"An entirely new safe supply protocol has resulted, developed in collaboration with the people using it—with higher doses, lower barriers and a trio of fentanyl products, including one that’s injectable. SAFER started outreach to [homeless] encampments immediately..."
In other words, the goal is maintain the addiction of people whose addiction caused their homelesseness
The goal is not to get people into addiction recovery, where they can restore their dignity, and independence
The goal is to keep homeless addicts homeless addicts.
A government insider says that San Francisco's supervised drug site may worsen drug dealing, crime, and open drug use, and that in other cities, activists have used them to advance a radical de-policing agenda that hurts communities and worsens addiction
A senior government official who oversees health and medical care for homeless drug addicts says San Francisco’s sanctioned drug use site could worsen the existing open drug scene around it.
“As drug consumption sites go in,” said the person, “activists and advocates fight to beat back law enforcement in the neighborhood. The addicts learn that it’s okay, that you don’t need to go into the site, and just be around it, since the police aren’t around.”
Many people think fossil fuel companies are the main obstacle to reducing CO2 emissions, but it’s climate activists who oppose nuclear energy, capitalism, and economic growth who are the real problem
The main reason there isn’t enough natural gas production is because of successful progressive Democratic efforts to restrict natural gas production in the name of fighting climate change
San Francisco’s leaders say the city’s supervised drug dealing & drug consumption site will help addicts quit, but trying to get addicts to quit in an environment that promotes and even celebrates drug use is doomed to fail. This is medical malpractice. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/In-…
American soldiers who grew addicted to heroin in Vietnam were able to quit relatively easily when they *weren’t* around heroin back in the U.S.
Addiction experts agree that “the city should not mix active drug use with people seeking treatment.”
“If you’re coming into a place that’s supposed to guide you toward the end of seeking treatment and recovery and there are people using drugs around you, that becomes an incentive to keep going,” said @KeithNHumphreys . “It’s like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
A lot of powerful people have tried to keep what I have to say out of polite society, but my talk last night at San Francisco's venerable, 130-year old Commonwealth Club shows they failed.
I am grateful to the Club for the opportunity to say my piece:
Correction: 119-year old. 😅
City workers and others on the front lines are suffering. They are waking up to the ugly reality that many city leaders care more about ideological purity than they do about workers, residents, and citizens.