Essay On Safe Injection Places

The Unites States has been trying to come up with many solutions to help control the use of street bought drugs, by wanting to provide new establishments such as the safe injection sites. Safe injection sites are not a valid response to the epidemic because instead of helping addicts get over the use of narcotics, they are only providing more of the drug that is causing this problem. From the University of Florida, Sabet has personally visited the site located in Vancouver. Their solution to saving the people involved in the heroin crisis of 20 years is to provide 12 stainless-steel desks where the people can inject (Sabet 834). The People who came up with the idea of claiming these facilities as “safe” do not understand that any drug is still a drug, and no matter the amount that is given, it should
Most families would never even consider the misuse of drugs, so they should not have to be surrounded by those seeking the help. The locations of the building do matter, it might be a good idea to put them in the city, but when the children walking with their parents down the street start asking questions like “What is that?” or “Why do they look like that?”, it will only make them more curious about what is in there and years down the road they will be the ones walking out of the front doors of that building.
“Safe injection sites are yet another proposal that would have the government subsidize the addictive drug industry,” says College Professor, Dr. Brian Johnson (833). Providing the “safe injection sites” will only be encouraging the user to continue on with the drugs that are being provided to them, rather than trying to help the user move on. To this day, even if it is considered “safe” to most, there is no good excuse as to why the government is funding the sites and to why they are wanting to provide the helpless with the drugs that they have obviously made illegal for a