Shooting Up

Today I went through all my posts and realized what started as a vent for all my beliefs and inspirations has now become just art so let's change it up a bit. Best current video I've watched in a while and it's about this place Insite.

Insite was designed to be accessible to injection drug users who are not well connected to health care services – men and women who use more than one drug; people who experience both addiction and mental illness; people with a history of trauma; people who are homeless, live in shelters or live in substandard housing; men and women of Aboriginal descent and people who have tried unsuccessfully in the past to beat their drug addiction.

You go in and they provide you with clean needles, a space, and supervisor. They founders of this argue that thousands of lives are saved each year b.c. there is an epidemic of diseases being spread by needle-sharing. Also they say that by luring these people into these facilities they can more easily try to counsil. This all sounds like a wacky idea and truthfully I don't know how comfortable I am with it but worth a post.

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