As of late, there has been a drastic increase in deaths due to opioid overdoses, this crisis has spread across our country, and has caused President Trump to publicly come out and describe it as a ‘national health emergency’. Opioid overdoses have destroyed families, careers, and more importantly, it’s taken lives, but Seattle and King County have been taking action on this issue, by creating the nation’s first-ever safe injection site. This is reportedly inspired to be like Vancouver B.C.'s safe injection site called Insite, which was the first safe injection site ever made.
What is a safe injection site you might ask? It is a supervised building where drug users can use drugs, the facility will normally provide clean needles and other supplies so that people can use drugs while not under risk of infection or disease.
Insite has been around since 2003, and have claimed to prevent over 5,000 overdoses in 13 years. That’s fairly successful considering they have had 263,700 …show more content…
People should be able to make there own decisions without being arrested, I think the drug dealers should be arrested because you don’t exactly know what they’re selling to the buyer unless they are intentions in the black market, if they don’t have access to that product, this will lead them to use the pill press. Drug dealers only intentions are to make money, not to help people. The government should be providing help to drug users so they can get on the road to recovery and eventually become sober. Almost everyone deserves a chance at a normal life, especially drug users, and I think safe injection sites are on a step in the right direction for this
What is a safe injection site you might ask? It is a supervised building where drug users can use drugs, the facility will normally provide clean needles and other supplies so that people can use drugs while not under risk of infection or disease.
Insite has been around since 2003, and have claimed to prevent over 5,000 overdoses in 13 years. That’s fairly successful considering they have had 263,700 …show more content…
People should be able to make there own decisions without being arrested, I think the drug dealers should be arrested because you don’t exactly know what they’re selling to the buyer unless they are intentions in the black market, if they don’t have access to that product, this will lead them to use the pill press. Drug dealers only intentions are to make money, not to help people. The government should be providing help to drug users so they can get on the road to recovery and eventually become sober. Almost everyone deserves a chance at a normal life, especially drug users, and I think safe injection sites are on a step in the right direction for this