Recreational drug consumption centers now open shop in US

[Song Hong]

New York City is now the first city in the nation to open two overdose prevention centers that will allow drug users to receive medical care and services to prevent drug overdose deaths, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio's Office.

The overdose prevention centers (OPCs), also known as supervised consumption sites or safe injection sites, provide a safer place for drug users to administer drugs and get medical care if they overdose, the city said. The centers can also provide connections to treatment and social services to help in their recovery.
"After exhaustive study, we know the right path forward to protect the most vulnerable people in our city," de Blasio said in a release. "And we will not hesitate to take it. Overdose Prevention Centers are a safe and effective way to address the opioid crisis. I'm proud to show cities in this country that after decades of failure, a smarter approach is possible."
With two locations in upper Manhattan, the centers will exist as part of two previously established syringe service providers, the mayor's office said.

New York City reported this month that during 2020, there were 2,062 overdose deaths compared with 1,497 in 2019, an increase of 565 deaths. Provisional data from the city shows that 596 overdose deaths were reported in the first quarter of 2021, which represents the greatest number of overdose deaths in a single quarter since reporting began in 2000, according to the mayor's office release.
"The national overdose epidemic is a five-alarm fire in public health, and we have to tackle this crisis concurrently with our COVID fight," said New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi. "Giving people a safe, supportive space will save lives and bring people in from the streets, improving life for everyone involved. Overdose prevention centers are a key part of broader harm reduction."

First US overdose prevention centers open in New York City in an effort to combat overdose deaths | CNN

New York City is now the first city in the nation to open two overdose prevention centers that will allow drug users to receive medical care and services to prevent drug overdose deaths, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio's Office.

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[Battlion25]

This is bad news for people like Al-Chapo they will be out of business

 

[casual]

This is bad news for people like Al-Chapo they will be out of business

exact opposite.

 

[INS_Vikrant]

exact opposite.

Misleading edited title by OP, saying these are drug consumption centers lol

 

[casual]

Misleading edited title by OP, saying these are drug consumption centers lol

title is on point. there centers are for people to do hard drugs in. the center provides clean needles and has a staff of nurses to prevent drug users from overdosing.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

at this point their brains are so fucked up by drugs that they are irreversible.

death by overdose may be their only way out. what's the point of keeping these husks alive?

 

[Globenim]

I like how they try to mislead the public by referring to these sites helping and providing utilities to consume drugs as "overdose prevention centers"

 

[aziqbal]

at this point their brains are so fucked up by drugs that they are irreversible.

death by overdose may be their only way out. what's the point of keeping these husks alive?

just today Chinese smuggler was caught in Africa selling fake drugs

even drugs China sells are counterfeit

 

[denel]

just today Chinese smuggler was caught in Africa selling fake drugs

even drugs China sells are counterfeit

They are complicit in mass production of fentynl which has been exported all over the world. It is purely criminal at CCP state level.

Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China (brookings.edu)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since 2013, China has been the principal source of the fentanyl flooding the U.S. illicit drug market—or of the precursor agents from which fentanyl is produced, often in Mexico—fueling the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history. Both the Obama and Trump administrations devoted significant diplomatic capital to persuading China to crack down on the supply of fentanyl from China to the United States, with China finally announcing in April 2019 that the production, sales, and export of all fentanyl-class drugs are prohibited, except by authorized firms which the Chinese government has granted special licenses.


Vanda Felbab-Brown
Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors
Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
VFelbabBrown


The issue at stake now is whether and how effectively China will enforce this new regulation both with regard to finished fentanyl and the large quantities of fentanyl precursors transshipped to Mexico. The enforcement challenge is formidable since China’s pharmaceutical and chemical industries involve tens of thousands of firms and hundreds of thousands of facilities, and China lacks adequate inspection and monitoring capacity. This policy paper draws on lessons from several sets of regulatory domains in China to identify the conditions under which China enforces its regulations. The explored regulatory domains include illicit methamphetamine production in China and its anti-trafficking collaboration with Australia; wildlife trade and the enforcement of anti-wildlife trafficking regulations since the early 1990s, including in the wake of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and COVID-19 epidemics; and the evolution of the tobacco industry.

The following pattern emerges: The government of China at first tends to deny the existence of a problem. Under international or strong domestic pressure, it eventually moves to tighten regulation. But its enforcement tends to be limited and subverted by powerful vested interests of industry representatives, officials of line ministries charged with regulating or promoting the industry, and government officials. Geostrategic interests also trump other considerations, such as enforcement of regulatory compliance.

Despite the fact that China prides itself on having a strong counternarcotics stance and reputation, China is highly unlikely to mount counternarcotics cooperation with the United States approaching the level of its collaboration with Australia on methamphetamines unless it starts experiencing its own synthetic opioid epidemic. Moreover, the significant deterioration of U.S.-Chinese relations may further undermine China’s willingness to diligently enforce the new fentanyl regulation.

Still, the United States should seek to strongly incentivize Beijing to diligently enforce its new regulations on fentanyl, adopting a four-pronged approach to opioid supply from China:

• With respect to the government of China, the United States should seek to delink counternarcotics policy and its enforcement from the U.S.-China global rivalry and encourage broad international cooperation with the United Nations, the European Union, and other countries concerned about synthetic drugs and their precursors produced in China;
• With respect to Chinese pharmaceutical companies, the United States can mandate that all companies seeking to sell legal fentanyl in the United States institute transparent and verifiable monitoring (such as through close-circuit TV systems) of their production facilities, follow best practices developed in the pharmaceutical sector, and contribute samples of fentanyl and other opioids they produce to U.S. and possibly also international drug databases;
• With respect to prominent Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical industry officials, the United States can develop packages of leverage; and
• With respect drug traffickers, the United States should continue gathering legal indictment portfolios.

 

[Globenim]

Well that was predictable.

US regime throws some controversial bandaid, to put it nicely, on the tumor that is U.S. drug abuse in their society instead of reflecting and reforming their inability to solve the problem. Inability of course including unwillingness to tighten control over highly profitable pharma cartells and defunct healthcare system fueling the domestic drug problem next to societal troubles they try to hide and play down out of pride that trigger it in first place

Someone chimes in to blame, yes of course, China. Citing some random paid U.S. regime propaganda shill parotting the same old lazy U.S. regime propaganda script just lying out of their *** and trying to shift blame away from itself after it has been endorsing problem at best and making it worse in every other case for half a century.

 

[denel]

Well that was predictable.

US regime throws some controversial bandaid, to put it nicely, on the tumor that is U.S. drug abuse in their society instead of reflecting and reforming their inability to solve the problem.

Somehow its China fault because some random paid U.S. regime propaganda shill is parotting the U.S. regimes script lying out of its *** and trying shifting blame away from itself after it has been endorsing the problems at best and making it worse in every other case for half a century.

so it is ok to flood fentynl across to the world and let people die?

 

[Globenim]

so it is ok to flood fentynl across to the world and let people die?

So its ok ignore the drug problem in the USA and just distract with deflecting lies and witchhunts, while people in the USA die?

 

[aziqbal]

So its ok ignore the drug problem in the USA and just distract with deflecting lies and witchhunts, while people in the USA die?

China is top producer of fentanyl

 

[zectech]

I am a libertarian. That is what the US should be about too - liberty.

The world used to be about liberty - 120 years ago. China was about liberty to grow hemp with THC. China could decide to do good, ages ago. That was until Washington bullied the Chinese to fall in line and obey the sadistic celts.

Video on how Washington concentrated power and took power of the Chinese to make their own decisions.

The True Story of Cannibas

Natural plant drugs are medicine. And it should be up to the men and women to take whatever herbs they want.

South American natives used coco leaves for helping them work/medicine. That is their culture. Other cultures drink beer on Friday - ie: Germany.

Refining alcoholic drinks to 100% alcohol should not be "criminal". Anybody can obtain pure alcohol and it is lawful. However, it is stupid to drink 100% alcohol. You could go to the hospital. Coco leaves are diluted medicine, refining to cocaine or other drugs is stupid for recreational intake, though was medicine in the 1800s. Cannabis with THC has 10% or 20% or whatever. To refine THC into a drug is stupid. There are other important components that help you recover from a high from THC in cannabis. Herbs are medicine. No herb is "criminal", they were created by God. Only losers trying to make you obey them call them "criminal" for growing them.

Medicine is serious stuff. And to outlaw medicine is what is criminal.

 

[Stranagor]

If it makes people happy, I support this policy.