Are Drug Consumption Rooms a Good Idea? | Loose Women

[@s.c.2924]

We have these in Switzerland and it was a groundbreaking way of getting drug users off the streets and get easier in contact with them, which also allows easier access to them for treatment plans.

[@jdchsdjhj]

Everything is better in Switzerland ! We can’t even recycle in this country

[@teagarden874]

Our government has just shut down 5 of these safe injection sites in Toronto. They can no longer be within 200 metres of schools or daycare centres because there is so much crime near them. Stabbings,shootings and last year an innocent young mother was shot to death because of a drug war outside a safe injection site in her neighbourhood. Funds will now be used for drug rehab instead.

[@maggiria]

In BC, Canada our drug deaths are still rising (here more had died from drugs than those from covid). We have government funded drug rooms too. There are still drug paraphernalia found in the streets. I know someone who works at a unhoused shelter and housing. Drug taking still happens there and drug dealers use this housing making people feel unsafe. Safe drug taking paraphernalia (ie clean needles, safer supplies ) are given to users. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough speedy and available treatment for those who want to get off drugs. The person I know who works here, says we are facilitating slow deaths and deaths are happening frequently simply because we don’t have the resources to get those who want help to get help in a timely manner.

[@joshuataylor3550]

This is because it wasn't combined with mental health rehabilitation programs like in Portugal where it worked.

[@jdchsdjhj]

You don’t believe Covid do you

[@DannyBoy89]

This is insane. The fallacy of a centre like this means you get less or no drugs on the street is ridiculous. I love Mylene though she would defend anything & anyone… 😅

[@TheTuellfamily]

How much money are these safe use places costing the taxpayer? it seems to me that all resources should go towards keeping these drugs out of the country and out of the hands of its citizens. They have ruined so many lives and the ripple affects that these drugs cause to the users family, and the society at large is so devastating. I think this is a waste of money and it doesn’t solve the problem at all. It only enables people to continue doing what they’re doing.

[@jillfortune1790]

They probably cost less than them being in jail or hospital. They also offer people help with abstaining and recovery.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

So the junkies will have access to nurses and medical help on tap, yet the rest of us can’t see our GP.

[@jacquelinehillson9589]

Sounds like a good idea, except for the fact , how many consumption rooms will they need , more than provided no doubt , we don’t have enough of anything already . Sad, alcoholic’s can’t get the help they need and that’s a class A legal drug.

[@jdchsdjhj]

What a waste of money ! Thought nhs is short staffed? I’ll be surprised if they get used ?

[@Clappers10]

Mylene talks a lot of sense. ❤

[@jdchsdjhj]

Not always

[@Tosca767]

Tried legalizing all drugs in Oregon…it’s been a disaster 😫

[@memecakes4436]

Big mistake

[@joshuataylor3550]

Worked in Portugal, drug deaths plummeted

[@Yoofaloof]

What next? I dread to think what other 'consumption rooms' could be on there way. Diabolical.

[@joshuataylor3550]

You combine this with a stronger welfare state and mental health programs and drug deaths and unemployment plummet like in Portugal

[@jdchsdjhj]

@@joshuataylor3550 what happens in Portugal doesn’t mean same will happen in Glasgow