The safe injection sites won't be used, as homeless shelters only draw a small percentage of homeless. In the meantime I have a hard time being convinced that giving clean needles, so junkies can supposedly avoid HIV is an answer when those infected needles are discarded everywhere in the major cities with no regard to those who may encounter them.
The safe injection sites won't be used, as homeless shelters only draw a small percentage of homeless. In the meantime I have a hard time being convinced that giving clean needles, so junkies can supposedly avoid HIV is an answer when those infected needles are discarded everywhere in the major cities with no regard to those who may encounter them.
People get tunnel vision on their ideas. The people who are thinking up ways to fight HIV are not the same people who are thinking up ways to keep parks and beaches safe. Free needles is good for reducing HIV transmission. They stop thinking/caring past that point.
My city does a needle exchange, which seems to be a reasonable compromise.
Personally I favour the safe injection sites. It gets the junkies out of the playgrounds, and keeps them away from the public.