If you have ever driven through a major city within the Untied States, you will see a common trend in each one of these cities. Trash and tents under overpasses are a telling sigh of the current situation our society is facing. These people are homeless and have been deemed unredeemable and worthless to our society, because they are addicted to heroin or other drugs. The city of Seattle is trying to acknowledge situation and trying to fix it with safe injections sites. However people within our society disagree with a safe injection site because they are allowing addicts a place to go and do illegal drugs however, safe injection sites will offer services to anyone wanting who wants to get away from drugs and return to a clean and regular life.
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According to Jones, Christopher "A recent report found 69.7% of substance abuse treatment admissions for heroin reported injection as the usual route of administration compared to 14.3% for opioid pain relievers "(Jones P.96). Recently the mayor of Seattle went to Vancouver in Canada to better understand the safe injection site and how it operates. Insite is the first legal safe-injection site in North America, its located in Vancover,BC. It is operated by Vancouver Coastal Health, which oversees all the injections within its health …show more content…
They offer two types of self-treatment on site referral and referring to other local providers. The onsite facility has detox rooms, counseling and once they are completed they are then sent to outsides services. However for those who do not want immediate help they are provided with outside services. According to the website “464 admissions from Insite into Onsite, the adjoining detox treatment facility, which recorded a program completion rate of 54% or 252 clients”(User Statistics, 2016). These are promising number because they got a second chance at
According to Jones, Christopher "A recent report found 69.7% of substance abuse treatment admissions for heroin reported injection as the usual route of administration compared to 14.3% for opioid pain relievers "(Jones P.96). Recently the mayor of Seattle went to Vancouver in Canada to better understand the safe injection site and how it operates. Insite is the first legal safe-injection site in North America, its located in Vancover,BC. It is operated by Vancouver Coastal Health, which oversees all the injections within its health …show more content…
They offer two types of self-treatment on site referral and referring to other local providers. The onsite facility has detox rooms, counseling and once they are completed they are then sent to outsides services. However for those who do not want immediate help they are provided with outside services. According to the website “464 admissions from Insite into Onsite, the adjoining detox treatment facility, which recorded a program completion rate of 54% or 252 clients”(User Statistics, 2016). These are promising number because they got a second chance at