Indiana - If Scotland Can Do This, Why Not Us?

 Is it that Indiana thinks it immoral to provide addicts with needles?

Edinburgh to get heroin shooting gallery - despite Glasgow needle plague (Scottish Daily Express) must mean that Scotland is rife with immorality.

 Labour-run Edinburgh council is set to follow the SNP's example and open a controversial drugs consumption room. Glasgow became the first city in the UK to install a "heroin shooting gallery" earlier this year, with addicts given free range to shoot up illegal substances under the supervision of medical professionals.

Cited as a pilot programme, it is being run jointly by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as Nat-controlled Glasgow City Council. Its impact will be assessed in two years, with the £2.3m facility already being slated by residents who live in nearby Calton who have reported a rise in needles and syringes being littered.

A report by Edinburgh City Council even admits that locals will be concerned about the creation of a fix room in the region. Two locations have been earmarked, the Cowgate, which is about five minutes away from the Scottish Parliament, and Spittal Street, which is at the foot of Edinburgh Castle Rock.

Heroin ‘shooting gallery’ lined up for city centre in bid to cut drug deaths 

DEATH TOLL: Scotland’s drug death rate remains the highest in Europe despite years of debate on how to tackle the issue. While drug deaths fell across Scotland last year, they rose slightly in Edinburgh with 113 recorded, up from 109 the year before. Supporters say these facilities, also known as overdose prevention centres, can cut deaths and prevent the spread of infections including HIV by providing sterile equipment in a controlled environment.

SAVING LIVES: Councillor Finlay McFarlane, an SNP member who represents the city centre, called for the study to be undertaken. He said: “People currently are dying unnecessarily from drug overdoses and we need to do everything and anything we can do to stop them from dying.” Drug addiction can affect “literally anybody, he added, saying: “It could be me next. It could be anybody that can fall into that cycle. All these deaths are entirely avoidable.”

Heroin ‘shooting gallery’ to open in Glasgow for addicts to get hit as kids play in CRECHE 

To me, it seems a practical move, but I am thinking more in terms of AIDS and hepatitis than reducing crime. We now have all these deaths from fentanyl, which this system might prevent. Preventing those deaths is moral; doing anything that would prevent those deaths would be immoral.

Two items in what I read leave me with these questions:

1. How is that the needles get outside, if the shots are administered inside?
2.  Why cannot there be maintenance and treatment?

But the General Assembly will dismiss this idea and stand tall as guardians of our morals.

I wonder how many overdoses from opiates there were today in Indiana?

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