“Allowing and/or encouraging people to inject heroin into their veins is not harm reduction, it is the opposite. … We believe it is a form of harm addition,” Tony Clement said Tuesday in Mexico City, where he is attending the XVII International AIDS Conference.Yeah, Tony, because all the people using InSite now would be clean and sober otherwise. Look, choadwad, people are going to inject heroin into their veins without any encouragement from anyone, whether you like it or not.
(Clement) also said that the federal government supports various forms of harm reduction for intravenous drug users such as needle exchange, methadone treatment and rehabilitation, but rejected safe injection as illegitimate. “We're not prepared to allow people to die” by condoning their continued drug use, Mr. Clement said.So let me get this straight: giving people needles with which to shoot up is okay, but providing a safe and clean environment in which to do so is out of order? How does that make any sense?
Mr. Clement has never clearly stated why the government supports needle exchange and rehab programs but so sternly opposes the existence of a facility where drug users can actually use the safe needles and be encouraged to enter rehab. The sticking point appears to be that, at Insite, drug users cannot be arrested and prosecuted.Oh I see, Clement and his conservative cronies have no fucking idea what harm, reduction means. See, Tony, the point of a harm-reduction approach to drug use is to treat addiction as a health care issue as opposed to a criminal matter. You can't have it both ways. And what, exactly would be the fucking point of a safe injection site where the clientèle gets arrested for using its services? That's stupidity that beggars belief.
No, the reason behind the Harperites' opposition to safe injection sites is ideology, nothing more.
"Drugs are bad, you shouldn't do drugs mmkay?"
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