“Our goal is to promote health and save lives with this information,” said Daliah Heller, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment.Asked why the handout tells people how to shoot up, Heller said, “From a health perspective, there is a less harmful way to inject yourself.”
Drug addicts need help. I’m not convinced teaching them how to shoot up is the help they need. I mean, do we produce brochures on safer bank robbing, car jacking or kidnapping? Of course not. Yet, for some reason we’ve convinced ourselves that handing out needles and teaching folks how to shoot up is helping them.
Maybe we should be finding better methods of getting folks off of drugs, and perhaps instilling Judeo-Christian values in children from cradle on might help prevent some from even getting started.
Brandon Markette 