The people operating San Francisco's supervised drug addiction site say they're trying to save lives, but a government insider tells me, "People die in supervised drug sites all the time. They just register place of death as the hospital or ambulance."
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San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed , Sen. @Scott_Wiener & SF Sup. @MattHaneySF claim supervised addiction sites prevent overdose deaths but there is ZERO evidence from anywhere that they do that.
Moreover, the sites may in fact INCREASE overdoes & poisoning deaths.
Moreover, the sites may in fact INCREASE overdoes & poisoning deaths.
Far more people who overdose are revived and survive than die.
That's the situation right NOW *outside* the supervised drug addiction site.
During the last decade, as Canada created supervised addiction sites, its OD and poisoning deaths from illicit drugs *increased.*
That's the situation right NOW *outside* the supervised drug addiction site.
During the last decade, as Canada created supervised addiction sites, its OD and poisoning deaths from illicit drugs *increased.*
Correlation is not causation. It could be that the supervised addiction sites had no impact one way or another. But that means that the advocates of these sites cannot claim, on the basis of reversing ODs inside the sites, that they reduce drug deaths.
In fact the sites could *increase* drug deaths by driving down the cost of drugs, making them more available, and thus increasing their use.
And we do not have data on how many people actually died *inside* the sites, rather than in the ambulances and hospitals.
And we do not have data on how many people actually died *inside* the sites, rather than in the ambulances and hospitals.
None of that even means there's not potentially one day a role for such supervised sites. They exist in Netherlands, as I have repeatedly pointed out. But Netherlands strictly controls narcotics. Fewer than 150 people in the entire country are allowed to use heroin.
The bottom line is that dealing with addiction has changed little since the morphine epidemic in the late 19th Century
Getting loved ones off opioids requires intervention, not enabling.
Enabling addicts kills addicts.
And our goal must be RECOVERY not addiction maintenance.
Getting loved ones off opioids requires intervention, not enabling.
Enabling addicts kills addicts.
And our goal must be RECOVERY not addiction maintenance.
This means that San Francisco's city-sanctioned and supervised drug addiction site must shut down immediately. It is being run inside a massive open air drug scene controlled by violent, heavily-armed gangsters who are destroying the city. It is a stain on the city & our humanity
To rescue our humanity we need an evidence-based approach to the addiction crisis
To rescue the city we all love we need law and order
To do both we need leaders who will make it happen
To rescue the city we all love we need law and order
To do both we need leaders who will make it happen
If @LondonBreed won't act, it falls to Gov. @GavinNewsom
If Gov. @GavinNewsom won't act, it falls to Pres. @JoeBiden
If they won't act, then we're going to need to change our leaders
If Gov. @GavinNewsom won't act, it falls to Pres. @JoeBiden
If they won't act, then we're going to need to change our leaders
And if we're going to change our leaders, we need to change ourselves
We need to stop acting like helpless babies in the face of violent foreign drug dealers
We need to take responsibility as citizens and humans for the extremely sick
We need to get ourselves organized.
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We need to stop acting like helpless babies in the face of violent foreign drug dealers
We need to take responsibility as citizens and humans for the extremely sick
We need to get ourselves organized.
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