I'm writing a paper, and out of sheer curiosity i was wondering waht
everyone else tinks of them?

good idea?
bad idea?
condoning the use of drugs?
preventing millions of blood related disease transfusions?


thoughts anyone?

not really into studyin,research,n all dem bookz...how bout i give you a
good blunt...and then you can choose?....

wait what kind of drugs r we talking about

and can we share the blunt lol

lol, pot is more of a smoking thing,

totally up for sharing a nice blunt,

but injection drugs, heroine, crack cocaine etc.

being there are so many addicts i say it would be a good thing. They do
call it dope for a reason but why get stoopid and contract HIV or
hepatitis. I say yes.

lol@raw....damn womanz you hardcore!!...jk...

true dat barbie ive seen the most gorgeous women fall victum to drugs
and look like god knowz what now...

If it is 'dope' U r speaking about? I think that medical experts have an
ongoing debate on that topic. and it might be that they are the people
to handle that. However, I do remember somewhere,one or a society of
them saying that, as some addicts cannot withdraw from the addiction
except they get the drug less and less, it should not be an offence if
they obtain it from the Doctors treating them. Also, if the drug taking
is made a 'no offence,' the drug will posses less value and the trade
will perish. But with all the information about what drugs do, I am
amazed about how many still get hooked on addiction when the best way to
avoid addiction is NOT TO BEGIN IN THE FIRST PLACE. What is the point
aquiring a habit that U have to struggle to get rid off when u might not
and have people peeing in your mouth while U sleep on the sidewalk?

Ther experts say that some of these drugs do somethings to your brain to
make it believe that U must have the chemical effect the drug causes
there, like if you were born that way. So the experts wrestle with how
to fix that. And in a way, like if they surrender. "What is the point:"
They say, "in the person getting arrested over and over when they will
be forced to trade in the very drug to obtain money to pay the legal
fees and Court fines, then to get arrested again?" They say. They would
never catch up with the release from the complications that the drug use
produces. ON ANOTHER HAND, SOME ADDICTS overcome the habit while in
prison where they cannot obtain the drug. They also escape the MAFIA and
drug debts during the 5 years or so they spend in prison. And some
emerge as Preachers and Attorneys etc.

Living in Toronto and being in the uglier side of the streets for close
to 10 years, I have seen the program and others at work.

They bring food, clothing, medical aid and fresh needles and crack pipes
to those on the streets, in the core. While the intent was to give to
those that have nothing, to reduce the spread of TB, hepatitis, HIV,
sexually transmitted diseases, it created a monster which was difficult,
if not impossible to deal with. It came to be that many on the street
benefiting from these services expected them, demanded to be catered to,
on the streets, with no initiative, nothing to motivate them in getting
help for their addictions or to better their lives.

But then I saw that some are so far gone, they will never find a way
back, and it is to those that these services are reaching out to, in any
attempt to reduce the transmitted diseases that are increasing from
dirty needle sharing. It is spreading to those not on the street. An
HIV positive prostitute has unprotected sex with an unsuspecting john or
shares a dirty needle.....even one with full blown AIDS.

Needle exchange programmes have worked well in this town, and keeps our
beaches, and public amenities blocks safer for the geberal public.

People use drugs intravenously, no matter what the education, it is a
sad fact of life. If there is a safe and confidential place for them to
receive and dispose of needles, then the greater public is safer, and is
a great way to
estimate/monitor the number of users within our community, and to make
available relevant services that may be required.