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In a small handful of cities, including Calgary and Winnipeg, local health authorities pass out crack pipes. Others prefer to only hand out mouth pieces, which users can place on their own pipes to avoid exposing themselves to others' saliva and blood.
Strange that nobody cared until B.C. decided to do this. The article mentions using harm reduction to get addicts into treatment. That's a better idea than putting them in prison.
My only objection is that it's a band aid approach. People can pat themselves on the back that they're doing something.
We pour $1,000,000
per day into the downtown eastside. (Where the problem is concentrated). And things mostly just get worse, because the approach is scatter shot and even contradictory. The approach was supposed to have 4 pillars - enforcement, harm reduction, treatment and prevention. No problem with getting money for enforcement, but once a bit of harm reduction was put in place, the other two pillars were neglected, because they cost real money. IMO it's those last two that have any hope of reducing the problem.
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