This policy and practice is aimed at reducing adverse health and social consequences for drug users, their families as well as society as a whole but it did not necessarily end drug consumption. It main focus was to help people try to stop using drugs because of the way a lot of drug users had started to catch diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. There was also the fact of trying to reduce the problems from overdose. Furthermore, this type of practice was established in the United States but other countries such as China who has very strict anti-drug laws have started to use policy. All of this was done because of the way drug user were exchanging needles and passing on a number of diseases which not only caused problems for them but their families as well.
Now I feel that a legislation that does not truly have a drug policy and don’t feel that drugs are a serious problem here places a bigger problem on this issue. I feel that by them feeling this way it takes away from the treatment that people could be receiving in order to be health and stop using drugs. Furthermore, a lot of people cannot afford to get the help that they truly need because of the cost and that legislation won’t pass the necessary laws that are needed to help