Much like "wet houses" that are popping up throughout the country, Vancouver, Canada has started a similar program to provide clean personal crack pipes to help cut down on diseases spread from sharing drug paraphernalia. The program that provides free crack pipes is called a "harm reduction" program, that will hopefully cut down on disease, as well as put drug addicts in touch with social workers more frequently and in turn could help addicts try to recover from their drug addiction. Walter Cavalieri of the Canadian Harm Reduction Network explains, “Will these services stop them from using drugs? For some people it will, but some won’t. Some will continue to use drugs but use them safely, some will cut back, and some will die, but their lives and health will be greatly improved.”
What do you think? Do you think that handing out free crack pipes will actually help? Or are we just sending the message that doing drugs is okay as long as you’re using clean and personal drug paraphernalia? Will this effort save lives? or just contribute to addictive drug abuse?
read further at WhyDrugRehab.com
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