The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment | Mark Tyndall
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Why do we still think that drug use is a law-enforcement issue? Making drugs illegal does nothing to stop people from using them, says public health expert Mark Tyndall. So, what might work? Tyndall shares community-based research that shows how harm-reduction strategies, like safe-injection sites, are working to address the drug overdose crisis.
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As a former heroin addict I would have died from who knows what without the local needle exchange. I now have over 5 years clean. I'm going back to school, I have a 2 year old. I'm so grateful for those people who worked there.
Ali Effing Noble congrats!! 5years!! That's awesome!! I too am a recovering addict with 3yrs clean and sober! I live in an area with no needle exchange a small town where the police made pharmacies stop selling needles with out a script and I am now being treated for hep c! It's up to us recovering addicts to make a real difference!! Congrats again on everything you have accomplished!! You're a warrior!
I've never been addicted to drugs or alcohol. I don't think I'm awesome.
I've never been addicted to drugs or alcohol...so I don't have anything interesting or of value to add to the conversation.
joseph4861 You are awesome because you manage to survive whatever you survive without using drugs. You're a warrior.
You sound like a modern day Nancy Reagan. Redundant, moralising and unhelpful. The people who don't need or use drugs pathologically are the ones WITHOUT a story of trauma and shame. The dificult life experiences and history are what create the urge to numb painful feelings. Sitting on the sidelines moralising and finger wagging doesn't help suffering addicts.
There won't be any progress with the for-profit prison lobby being as strong as it is. Decriminalizing drug users and focusing on therapy would directly cut their income considering that the largest part of inmates are serving time for drug related crimes.
+ pharma as well
Actually I went cold turkey in the 80,s in County Jail and so many inmates helped me get through because most of them went through the same thing
@@vilijanac Everyone goes cold turkey in jail. I agree with you on the part you said about finding employment though.
States would rather make money off for-profit prisons than pay money for people to get therapy and drug treatment.
Fantastic message. Stop Shaming addicts. Judging, demonising and criticising people in pain increases the stigma and self hatred which is driving the need to numb out.
Addicts are awesome!!
Smell the self hatred!
Stop shaming the non-addicts!!
Stop being a morronic biggot
x47 Stop shaming joseph4861
As a recovering alcoholic/drug addict, (26 yrs) I can certainly appreciate the wisdom of this approach. The harsh reality of substance abuse is that some people live, and some people die. We should, nevertheless, provide every opportunity for those suffering to experience the miracle of recovery. Long term sobriety is possible for those willing to live differently!
This is the first guy to expose me to harm reduction and I've sent this talk to many people. It's taking it's sweet time but slowly we are getting there... Thanks Mark
The stupid thing is that schools told us that marijuana is the "gateway drug" to harder substances. In truth, the prescriptions provided by doctors is what mainly leads people to those hard substances.
Birgitte Andersen I agree. There are a lot of doctors that will overprescribe opioids while other drugs like benzodiazepines and amphetamines can be misused and overprescribed as well.
I agree. Now.
In my day pills were nearly impossible to get.
We smoked weed, got bored, lsd/shrooms/powder coke/crack/ then heroin :(
That was my progression
Pills were pricey hard to procure
I was a witness to the start of the Oxy epidemic
It was SCARY
Watching ppl get these scripts & getting so caught out and ending up on heroin eventually
Let’s clarify your statement to: prescriptions provided by doctors that drug dealers and addicts misuse lead to hard substances for those people.
@@jotty2451 The prescriptions provided by doctors are what turns normal people into addicts. You aren't addicted until you try them. You don't try them until you're prescribed them. I can't tell you how many heroin addicts I've met that began their addiction with prescription drugs. They don't mean for it to happen, it just happens.
Yes most of the time the illigal drugs try to mimic pharmaceuticals
Saying a needle exchange/injection site is an endorsement for drugs is like saying a hospital is an endorsement for sickness or a Chemotherapy Clinic is an endorsement for cancer. These are all places you go to treat illness.
Addiction IS an illness and an effective and proven treatment for it is harm reduction.
You don’t choose to get sick, people don’t think that they can stop washing their hands and just go back to the hospital if they get sick. People make the choice to risk their lives to get a partial high. It’s not just the drugs either, you loose your job, can’t pay for your addiction, it leads down into a life of crime. There are other ways to deal with your problems that don’t involve ruining not only your life but the people who love you.
Right okay, then its like saying a gym or a health food store is an endorsement for obesity.
It is an endorsement
Bullshit. Logic escapes you
@@yakimafirstbaptist No one signs up for a life of addiction. You're telling me when you had your first beer, that you thoroughly went over the possibility of becoming an alcoholic? Addiction isn't something that is chosen, its something that happens to you. It is people like you that further stigmatize the notion that drug addiction is not a mental illness.
People say oh you're wasting money on drug users. No, providing things like clean needle exchanges helps prevent the transmission of diseases like Hep C and HIV. By preventing users from getting it, you're saving tons of money in the long run that would be for hospital costs and treatments for these diseases.
Excellent talk, great ideas. I really hope that some day the harm reduction can be discussed in some global institution, and used as a international standard of dealing with drug addiction worldwide.
Prescription addiction is equally harmful as illicit drug addiction, but far more overlooked!
Wrong. Opioids are harmless apart from possible effects of overdoses. Heroine is harmful because it's cut. That's one of the reasons why a lot of doctors advocate for substitution programs.
I don't care I truly hope that wasn't a serious comment! I don't have the time nor energy to show you why you're wrong on so many levels, and that a drug does not have to kill you to be regarded as dangerous.
Also, prescription drugs such as benzodiazepines, stimulants, cyclopyrrylones, barbiturates, antideptessants, antipsychotics, gabapentinoids and combining prescription amphetamines with decongestants and so much more is on par, if not more problematic than street drugs.
All people need with certain prescriptions and their local chemist is a bit of imagination to ruin their lives.
Like I said: prescription addiction is vastly overlooked!
H i P B A H A What's your source?
Jack Ricks Twenty-two years of personal experience and an indefatigable thirst for knowledge on all subjects I find of interest.
#Lectiophile
Ella Kanefsky No, I didn't know of that specific fact. However, I know of similar stories wherein prescribers are equally responsible for drug pushing as the stereotypical drug dealer.
My favorite is the people who have heard all of the data and still say something stupid and blindly propose a naive and ineffective solution like "Just Don't Do Drugs."
That’s because ignorance to the causes for several systemic issues (I’m not sure what country you reside in) is either reinforced or seldom analyzed because we are largely uneducated about mental health issues or the numerous environmental circumstances which can lead to those issues. We just pass the buck of taking responsibility for the society in which we live and chalk it up to “good guys versus bad guys” and disregard (sometimes proudly which is just downright shameful) the humanity of these people. We ignore circumstance and influence and blindly assume that everyone is born into a position of being in complete control in an environment of only the best, and that the outcome of these people is solely the result of a totally healthy person being stupid...or thinking to themselves that such a life is incredibly desirable. It’s as if the presence of choice (if there genuinely is one) is all that matters, and context is outright dismissed.
Yup. Thank you Nancy Reagan. Just say no...smh
I participated in a Zoom session in which Liberal MP (Vancouver Quadra - Hon. Joyce Murray) hosted a guest speaker, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Carolyn Bennet, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions of Canada. During the Q&A period after her presentation, I asked Dr. Bennet about reports I'd read in the media of DTES addicts who, despite being provided with clean supplies of pharmaceutical grade heroin, continued to use Fentanyl-laced street heroin, because they were convinced it gave them a "better high"; the thrust of my question was: "how do you fix STUPID?" Dr. Bennet's dismissive reply was: "every little bit helps."
Mark, thank you for bringing awareness to the importance of harm reduction and all the work you've done! I really admire your message and how you emphasize that people with addiction deserve treatment and resources to keep them safe and healthy. The information you shared about Portugal decriminalizing all drugs and instead investing into health and rehabilitation program, thus leading to a decrease in overall drug use, was fascinating. Have there been any other countries that have tried this and had similar results? Do you think that the United States will ever follow suit, why or why not?
Thank you so much. I will use this as video to explain harm reduction to people
Oh. My. Gosh. You are so amazing. I just heard this talk on criminal behaviorology pod. I was nearly brought to tears. Your insight is so much deeper than the men and women who make the laws that basically criminalise being an addict. I was wondering if you work for a business that I could read more about. Or if you have any papers that you've written. Anything that I can read about you and your mission statement. I'm so impressed. I'm from Boston, and my mayor is in recovery. He's actually been asked to work with the Biden administration, and he's talked about harm reduction. (Marty Walsh) Again, thank you for your wisdom and insight.
You're worth your weight in gold and diamonds Mark Tyndall !!
Thank you for this amazing talk. Incredibly heartwarming like Dr Gabor Mate.
recovery is possible. Noone is ever hopeless. hope faith and courage.
I can think of a thousands ways you are correct.The only hurdle I see is profiting of of the drug war being an obstacle of the highest concern. Great Ideas Thanks!
BRILLIANT, thank you for this ❤
Thank you for advice
Exceptional explanation of the harm reduction model - people need to open their hearts and minds to this model, which is the most enlightened (rational, compassionate)! Thank you sir.
We shouldn't make policy based simply based on what we believe. We should make policy what works, what's true... Ultimately, what we can justifiably prove will get us to where we believe we should be.
So well said. This guy is on point with every statement made! Listen !!
This guy and his hypocrisy, I should be used to thus blatant ignorance but at this point I don't think I'll ever get used to it.
It's obvious who hasn't done their research.
I love this approach! I remember watching a documentary back in the early 90's about a community in the UK ( I believe in Liverpool) where the program offered Opium, clean needles, methadone to their clients. They tracked some of the clients, which seemed to have productive lives. Unfortunately, there was never any follow up to that documentary, but, it does make sense to advocate for this approach, any other approach would be inhumane.
What a great video that pretty much covers everything... we need more open-mindedness and willingness to try something new. What’s the harm in trying something new?
Need education in schools at an early age and information about the effects of drugs and more detox facilities made available and more research
I want to thank you sir for this talk because you see the people that use drugs as people and not as the drug that they consume to try to self-medicate the problems they are dealing with that we can't see because the problem lies in their brain.
well said.
Excellent
2:54 amazing quote
This was really interesting. Everyone deserves a chance x
Great vid
This Harm reduction Program really works a lot.
Real talk💯
Preach on Mark, hallelujah! Someone with some common sense!
Thanks Mark Tyndall !!!
I'm so glad I can get clean needles where I live. I always said I'd never share a needle. But if the option for clean needles wasn't easily available....idk if I'd have been able to keep that promise to myself x
I bet you anything that if you were unable to find a needle you wouldn't be shooting up at all.
I would just go to tractor supply or any other feed store and buy the IM 22guage dog needles. But that's a great way to get infection and bad track marks and they can be shared.
Never been so early. Also this was an amazing vid.
wow it is true. These are one of the most vulnerable people
"Dont do drugs,if you do,you deserve to go to jail."
*Procceds to injest vast ammounts of alcohol,coffe,sugar and prescription drugs.*
The hypocracy of today's society...
@@yakimafirstbaptist Do you realize that prohibition has never worked in a free society? We can't even keep drugs out of prisons. Legalize them all. This has significantly reduced the harm caused by "hard drugs" in other countries.
Christopher Hawkins With regulation and quality procedures. The only way to get drugs off the streets is to make the black market for drugs obsolete. Getting drugs off the street eliminates outlets for gang violence, significantly decreases opportunities for them to end up in the possession of minors, reduces drug overdoses, and reduces the overall prison population which can largely serve as a crash course into “Crime 101”.
@@FadingFires yeah but do you see gangs going to war over decriminalized drugs? tell me how in the world you would get drugs off the streets?
We could all take a lesson in compassion from Dr. Mark. He goes to the margins to stand with poor and the powerless and the voiceless. He goes to stand with the easily despised and the readily left out. Dr. Mark goes to the margins to stand with the demonized so one day the demonizing will stop. He stands with the disposable so one day we will stop throwing people away.
(Father Gregory Boyle)
11:39 who noticed the man sleeping 💤 😴..😂😂
Not sleeping. Overdosed.
mhtinla 😂 lol
illegal sleep 😂
Amber Clugston 😂😂😂😂😂👌🏻
Here in the U.S. the so called "War on Drugs" is an abysmal failure. This is why I see some progress - for example where I live all first responder vehicles have Naloxone to stop overdoses. And I'd love to see the focus on drugs change from a law enforcement issue to a public health issue. That would change everything. And I wouldn't want to be a police officer because I can see drugs being completely legal and safe and autonomous vehicles that never break the law. So you don't need as many police at that point.
And the trauma - most people in my family that used drugs were either physically abused as kids or grew up in the extreme suburbs.
kd1s I think the counter argument is that it’s an uncontrolled substance. Your providing this solution to part of the problem. Why do people compare drug addiction to something of a Necessity. We don’t have regulations and safety’s for people who sell drugs on the streets. We have regulations and safety for food vendors. People consciously make the choice to start using these drugs, and weather they know all the consequences or not, there are consequences. If someone isn’t making the choice to get better and continues to just use its total encouragement.
Excellent comment.
SpiderTaco Drug addicts are also discouraged from seeking help and treatment because of the potential consequences for admitting that they have a problem and need help.
5000 lectures later, governments around the world are still not getting it.
Maybe they're seeung something you're not seeing. Just a thought...
The first comment is hysterical, the world has already been helping addicts dig their graves for an extremely long time. I really wish people would truly research and do their best to put their biases aside. Your ignorance isn't helping anything, in fact quite the contrary.
@@yakimafirstbaptist It worked in Portugal so we have proof that decriminalizing and providing health centres is the better method to solve this issue
Prohibition obviously doesn't work never stopped me from using drugs it's so easy to get anyway why not just make it safer to buy and use, if we could go to the store or a pharmacy to pick up our heroin or whatever instead of all the sketchy street dealers out there.
Not to mention the stigma if the stigma was gone it'd be a lot easier to ask for help if you need it, I work and live a mostly normal life besides smoking heroin, but I do that in my own home out of sight. You wouldn't see as many people using in the streets if they had a safe place to use.
Show me ONE family that doesn't have an alcoholic or addict, then come back to talk with us
Drug prohibition started because the guy who was responsible for alcohol prohibition lost his job after everybody noticed that alcohol prohibition didn't work so he created the demonized image of drugs and added a little racism to it and a couple decades later people deny any arguments against prohibition.
so it sounds like the government is either intentionally or unintentionally criminalizing these people. if intentionally why? if unintentionally how are they so nearsighted? Great video. Ted talks are always interesting to listen to.
14 years in service with no DEATHS That is enough said, Stop the shaming and start with our solution.
Amen to that!
I would love to share one day
SO, WHO WILL PAY FOR THESE FACILITIES THAT ARE USED TO ASSIST DRUG USERS AND THEIR HABITS???!!!
james perry same people who pay for those incarcerated in prison. Except it will cost a lot less.
james perry we’ll just divert the tax money we use on the war on drugs to harm reduction methods
@@takenote7085 I DON'T WANT MY TAX DOLLARS TO GO TOWARDS ENABLING PEOPLE TO USE DRUGS. SAD THAT THIS EVEN NEEDS TO BE SAID.
@@danielandamanda You would rather pay more tax dollars towards keeping people in jail. Makes sense. Lets not forget that they still get drugs in jail and you are paying for that.
@@takenote7085 We are paying for them to be in jail/prison either way. I would rather spend my tax money on real ways of rehabilitation. I'm about rehabilitation and assisting people in a positive way, not enabling people and helping them dig their own grave. I do believe the system needs to do something different apart from what they've been doing for years, but giving people clean needles and giving them a place to USE DRUGS is definitely not the way to do it. Think about this. What are these people doing with these addicts after they're done using their services? They fail to mention that MOST crime is committed by individuals that are UNDER THE INFLUENCE. So you tell me how helping people GET HIGH is going to lower crime rates.
We NEED these places in the USA. I nearly got raped trying to find a hidden safe place to get well.
I stabbed the dude w/a needle & ran
I found out I was lucky..
Others got sexually assaulted
:(
A disease, even as ugly as addiction, we are not awful ppl-we May do desperate things, we don’t deserve to die or be raped.
I would be more on board if these sites also provided nutritional support. A good warm meal and a multi vitamin with extra B Complex...
I say try it in California. If that place is at least 90% cleaner with no junkies in walkways shooting up then I'll say it's a success.
“Common sense and compassionate approach.” This is what the focus of medicine, law enforcement, and government should be when talking about drug use. I wholehearted agree with Dr. Tyndall’s statement that drug use is not a law enforcement issue. I worked with the homeless population for just over a year before starting medical school, and I can tell you from my experience that more than the drugs themselves, the fear of being caught or arrested caused these individuals to participate in high-risk activities. I do not want to generalize groups, but the number of times I saw EMTs and law enforcement talk down to or verbally abuse addicts when we called was gut wrenching. I do need to say that there were also some amazing EMTs and officers that really did care about the community they served. I understand that it can be difficult to deal with people who are struggling, but this is the exact reason we need harm-reduction centers. At the end of the day the healthcare system is in part to blame for the drug crisis in America and we cannot sit on our high horse judging those who have been affected. According to the CDC, 107,000 people died in 2021 due to drug overdose and 67% involved Fentanyl. As Dr. Tyndall stated, prohibition does not work and is endangering thousands of Americans. Please everyone do your part to change the stigma on drug use and advocate for the people in our society that have been deemed unworthy of empathy and basic healthcare by society.
This is true. Harm reduction reduced harm to the entire community.
Thank you for this passionate and concise discourse. I am also grateful to Canada for showing us another way. Doing something over and over again even when it doesn't work but expecting a different result... isn't that the definition of insanity? I do, however, confess to a distrust in pharmaceutical intervention as that industry seems to put money before people, effectively creating a 'better' or 'safer' addiction? If it is designed to ease the pain of detox, I am all for it but when it is used without an intention for eventual freedom from all drugs I am suspicious. Adding a practice like yoga to the treatment side of addiction has proven to repair the brain. A yoga practice also addresses the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of drug addiction. As you noted, there is nearly always a story and as Bessel Von der Kulk reports in his book, The Body Keeps the Score - well, the body keeps the score! Thank you again for keeping the disenfranchised part of our consciousness.
If you truly think Yoga can treat drug addiction and the underlying psychological problems causing it you're wrong. A healthy lifestyle can improve the well being, but it won't repair the brain and psyche.
americanaddictioncenters.org/therapy-treatment/yoga
In my brevity, I may have misrepresented my ideas. I consider yoga to be an adjunct - not treatment. The link I've added here says it better than I could.
My curiosity tends to lean in the direction of what supports potential. Alternative or adjunct practices give people the opportunity to feel and intervene on their own behalf when habit patterns or emotional overwhelm or craving show up. It is most definitely NOT treatment. Intervention through personal practice. No easy task here. Change is uncomfortable at least. At best, it's an f'in wall whose depth you can not see and whose height is lost in the clouds. Compassion gets us closer.
Ella Kanefsky guided imagery and EMDR if any issues such as PTSD are apparent and of course that's up to a physician. I am not a physician nor do I pretend to be one. I am simply adding options that could help people. Addiction is often about self medicating due to mental health issues. I would like to see TED talks about EMDR and grief due to loss of children (of all ages) but especially loss of children to drugs, also what drugs cause accidental overdose. I might know that answer but TED should be on that plus the dark web and drugs. Education is key.
I Agree ☝️❤️just push play 😂😜been busy 😂
This was very well said. Good work my friend. I am a CASACT n social worker in NYC u hit it on the fucking nail .
With the crack addicts of the 80s and the 90s, they hurried up and put us in jail and put us in prison and gave us records that made life. If we ever got clean it made life very hard period
#LegalizeAllDrugs
Brainless.
Spirit Possession is large part of dilemma
Harm reduction in canada needs help, I'm in halifax nova scotia canada and we have harm reduction but no push to get clean. People are dying and nothing is being done about it. If anyone has pull, come to Canada and please help
I myself have OD on fentanyl and the only reason I'm getting better is because of me. Harm reduction needs help in canada and i don't have the resources to help.
Make videos on Mumbaikar Nikhil
I am a recovery heroin addict. If it wasn't for methadone I wouldn't have the life that I have now. I am back in school and I am an advocate for all the people on methadone in my area. Methadone is recovering if you allow it.
I hope you're using methadone temporarily as a way to get a head start in recovery. I don't believe it is a permanent solution to drug addiction. People need to learn to live healthy DRUG-FREE lives.
I am working in the field of Drug addiction and Harm Reduction for more than 20 years, comprehensive harm reduction service can address all the issues of drug addiction.
can someone tell me this video in simple words
Frit I Love Your Video ;) :))
As blood splattered" he "says"
Legalize 🌎
I don't believe in criminalizing drug use. But I also feel like harm reduction isn't working. I've worked in those safe injection sites and what I see daily is clients uping their drug use now because they don't have to struggle to find a safe place to use. And typically because of that when the site closes or they go to the shelter for the night and use them they overdose. Not to mention most of the injection sites are poorly structured, not well ventilated, and most of the companies that offer supportive housing like Portland housing have high death tolls for staff. Every month a staff member dies at my company. Every week a client dies at my company. It's hard to see how harm reduction works when the ppl you care about are dropping like flies.
Let’s get some stats on this. You can’t make a claim like this without proof
I've found that the people who shame the most are those with the greatest/worse to be shamed 4 ex. "Look at him...not me".
There will always be a need for Gods help.
So we have to give drug users a safe place to do drugs in order to reduce drug use?🤔
i mean the point is “harm reduction.” would you rather they do it somewhere unsafe with a dirty used needle and just die ._.
Well wouldn't providing naloxone and reversing a drug overdose in those so called safe injection sites mean that addicts will keep using it because know they know that if anything there is naloxone near by to safe them??? Someone explain
No, overdosing is very unpleasant from what I understand. We pump people who od on alcohols stomachs and without treating overdoses were saying it's fine if they have permitted trama or die.
Even if you arn't sympathetic to the addicts think of there families. Also harm reduction tips is A bridge to sobriety for many.
Aquí se nos muestra un caso en el que el ponente llegan hotel y veo una chica intentando se inyectan drogas por lo tanto esta situación de marca mucho al poniente y reflexiona acerca de estas personas qué son adictas pero no debemos de verlas como personas malas sino que detrás de esto hay historias personales de Gran impacto los cuales a través de las drogas tratan de calmar esos traumas que traen interiormente por lo tanto él nos muestra que hay sitios de inyección supervisada es decir te dan drogas y te las inyectan pero de manera supervisada y con este experimento se ha comprobado qué género menos muertes que sí las prohíben, se nos muestra qué a estas personas se les hace una pregunta acerca de qué piensan acerca de su futuro ellos tienen esperanza de salir adelante de que algún día dejen las drogas pero eso no será posible si se sigue prohibiendo y se sigue limitando de parte de los gobiernos él nos muestra qué hay una reducción de daños si no se prohíbe además de incorporar financiar ampliar programas de reducción de daños en América del Norte para que poco a poco las personas no se vuelvan más dependientes de estas sustancias nocivas para la salud y que cada vez sean más debemos de trabajar todos para ayudar a estas personas y que salgan adelante porque si ellos salen adelante nosotros salimos adelante como país como nación.
9:03-9:18 is the only part i agree with.
Youre pretty ignorant... thats why stigma exists...
I have an idea about this
JAH Hensley what is it?
tolerating addicts and inviting more addicts to be more addicted
What is happening in the comment section? I guess the upload-time...
The Idea is great, but i think that we (expecially children) also need better education in drugs (maybe wrong grammar, what i mean is that people should know what they are doing before they do it).
In the past centuries, our medical science has successfully eradicated diseases such as smallpox and rinderpest. If drug addiction is a disease as some claimed, our goal should be to eradicate it, which is quite doable, instead of trying to live with it.
Schoko4craft My whole life I've known or have been taught that drugs were bad, but that didn't stop from doing it. You might ask why or tell me I'm stupid and you might be right. but some people hit rock bottom with depression and lose connection to friends and family and feel like nothing matters. And it's in the moment of weakness that you do stupid things like drugs to help you feel better or cope with those emotions. Luckily I have been drug free and have been doing way better with my life but it wasn't easy at all. Not everyone has the mental capability to say hey... maybe my life does matter and I shouldn't be throwing it away.
One needs to get educated about the availability of drugs, before getting educated about not using drugs. If drugs are simply not available in our society (eradicated like smallpox and rinderpest), we wouldn't need any drug addiction conversation.
William Alfaro. Everyone knows that drugs are bad. Education is something different.
Not only the addiction but there comes so much more with it... Thats why we need education
We have to ask ourselves then is the needle exchange that is the issue or is it the political and ideological use of these programs. Personally, I believe that narcotics should be made legal and it should be the individuals choice. As a free people one should choose their path but when we look at examples in America where these programs are allowed to exist a city like Seattle, where I grew up by, has gone from a thriving metropolis to a cesspool of crime, disease, and drug use. The West Coast is facing real problems that are secondary and tertiary effects of such programs. San Fransisco is in a full-blown epidemic because of such programs. So I ask to put ideology aside, my life and childhood were turned upside down to addiction because of my parents' decisions to use drugs and alcohol, so my compassion has limitations. The approach should be more empirical and logistical and less ideological. Compassion is a constant, but these sites need to be strictly regulated and the condoning of behaviors that are a result of such use should also be strictly enforced.
SIS don't stop addiction.Get private funding,why should taxpayers pay to enable people? We need rehab centers and opiate education. Live with an addict and have an addict for a child before you preach.
WOW! A comment I can actually agree with. I was beginning to lose hope in humanity!
Watch the talk again
I’m grateful I stopped before Fentanyl & Carfentanyl:(
Love, Frances I'm grateful for your life and those of your family that you stopped using. I hope you have the supportive help you need to stay off drugs.
When will TED start distributing drugs in their talks? It will make everyone feel good.
Yeah, they would. But what kind of point are you even trying to make with that statement?
The conflation of safe injection sites with clean needle exchanges is absolutely ridiculous. Cities that have clean needle exchanges and don't have safe injection sites see an increase of drug use and overdoses. Clean needle exchanges kill.
Let’s see that proof lol. I’m betting you don’t have it :)
The government needs to get out of treating addiction , methadone is the most federally mandated drug and its killing people that could of been saved with methadone if they could just go to their doctors and ask for help
while i do agree that we should help addicts and care for them, but decriminalize drugs.. thats a step too far..
if u rly need to fix the drug addiction problems u need to look for the reason why ppl become addicts.
I think the key point is that they decriminalized POSSESSION of drugs. I assume distribution was still illegal.
We should be giving a CLEAN source of drugs to life long addicts
Some of the most common and deadly drugs, are alcohol and cigarettes.. Look at a smoker and every time they take a sif, imagine its not a cigarette but a syringe.. And now, take yourselves together! ;-) Its funny how we only point fingers at others, if they break the so-called "law".. You drive to fast, you are not allowed to park there . . . on and on and on!
Where I live, drug users murder their children, cause accidents, harm others, etc...we do needs laws against using drugs. And I think there would be great benefit to offering recovery programs for free ( including inpatient) as part of the needle exchange, so they can elect to do that. Many may not know how to get help.
This is not akin to being poisoned by meat or milk. this is akin to being poisoned by poison. And your argument needs to address their personal responsibility. They are not being victimized by me. They are being victimized by choices, no mater how compulsive. It is related to choices of the "victim".
Also look at tobacco use, is now looked down upon and less children start. It should be done like that but instead everything around drug use dealing etc and taboo to a point it's glorified in the music industry and Hollywood. We need to make these dealers lose there jobs and we can begin to heal.
As a recovering crack addict from the 80s, the 90s and the early 2000s on skid roll. I laugh at harm reduction to a certain extent period I remember one day I spoke with the lady who was doing a master's internship in harm reduction and I ask her about it. This was an indianyoung lady of India descentand I asked her. What did she think of her hard reduction? If she laughed out loud she screamed laughter like this is a joke.
This is the deal they never had harm reduction in my day. They're only doing it to save these young white people.
They're only doing it to save these young white people. Roll versus wade was only reversed to say young white births
People in addiction, and recovered addicts...PLZ TAKE VITAMINS AND MINERALS. BUILD YOUR IMMUNE FOR BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE. PLZ, YOU WILL FEEL BETTER.
A safe place to inject your drugs????
Naw
Do not use drugs! Duh!
Self serving and disingenuous.
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Drugs are only a symptom and the rap/rock culture is only a symptom of that same drug. What's the issues of these two personal life issues and the probition of these substances.
By all means have your sobriety just don't push it on the rest of us! which is what's been done. Decriminalisation is an immoral half measure, absolute legalisation is the only benevolent move so that those who desire to partake have a safe and stigma free thus shameless experience with significantly reduced anxiety attached. It's unequivocally wrong to deny grown adults sovereignty over their own states of mind. Proper education is the key NOT denial of experience. In the same way it's socially repugnant to be openly racist or homophobic, that same manner should be extended to drug users and it would be if we lived in a tolerant and benevolent society.
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