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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 3:14 pm
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Let's just say a local drug addict steals a certain amount of merchandise from local retailers to buy drugs on the street.
That happens many times each day.
Let's say this drug addict also steals directly from you. Either some of your possessions or some of your money. In addition, inadvertently, putting your life at risk at the same time.
That actually happens to us and fellow citizens many times each day.
Let's use the certain theoretically specific amount of merchandise, referred to above, from the stores and the theoretically certain amount of your possessions and money stolen directly from you and others and use those two theoretically certain amounts of material and use that as a jumping-off point to determine a comprehensive, willingly offered-up tax.
This tax would provide a government sponsored & run facility that will provide high grade heroin, to be administrated by the user through plugging, at amounts requested by the addict.
Until the addict kill themselves through an overdose.
This process eliminates risk of injury to non-addicts inadvertently caused by an addict.
Your thoughts...
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Wiki:
Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation. Due to increased vulnerability to infectious agents, particularly viruses and intracellular bacteria resulting from the suppression of various cell-mediated immune pathways, the use of heroin and other opioids, even at normal therapeutic levels, may lead to opportunistic infections, which carry their own lasting effects.
The average purity of street heroin in the UK varies between 30% and 50% and heroin that has been seized at the border has purity levels between 40% and 60%; this variation has led to people suffering from overdoses as a result of the heroin missing a stage on its journey from port to end user, as each set of hands that the drug passes through adds further adulterants, the strength of the drug reduces, with the effect that if steps are missed, the purity of the drug reaching the end user is higher than they are used to and because they are unable to tolerate the increase, an overdose ensues.
Intravenous use of heroin (and any other substance) with non-sterile needles and syringes or other related equipment may lead to:
The risk of contracting blood-borne pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis by the sharing of needles
The risk of contracting bacterial or fungal endocarditis and possibly venous sclerosis
Abscesses
Poisoning from contaminants added to "cut" or dilute heroin
Physical dependence can result from prolonged use of all opioids, resulting in withdrawal symptoms on cessation of use
Decreased kidney function (although it is not currently known if this is because of adulterants or infectious diseases)
Many countries and local governments have begun funding programs that supply sterile needles to people who inject illegal drugs in an attempt to reduce these contingent risks, and especially the spread of blood-borne diseases. The Drug Policy Alliance reports that up to 75% of new AIDS cases among women and children are directly or indirectly a consequence of drug use by injection[citation needed]. The United States federal government does not operate needle exchanges, although some state and local governments do support needle exchange programs.
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Let's just say a local drug addict steals a certain amount of merchandise from local retailers to buy drugs on the street.
That happens many times each day.
Let's say this drug addict also steals directly from you. Either some of your possessions or some of your money. In addition, inadvertently, putting your life at risk at the same time.
That actually happens to us and fellow citizens many times each day.
Let's use the certain theoretically specific amount of merchandise, referred to above, from the stores and the theoretically certain amount of your possessions and money stolen directly from you and others and use those two theoretically certain amounts of material and use that as a jumping-off point to determine a comprehensive, willingly offered-up tax.
This tax would provide a government sponsored & run facility that will provide high grade heroin, to be administrated by the user through plugging, at amounts requested by the addict.
Until the addict kill themselves through an overdose.
This process eliminates risk of injury to non-addicts inadvertently caused by an addict.
Your thoughts...
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Wiki:
Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation. Due to increased vulnerability to infectious agents, particularly viruses and intracellular bacteria resulting from the suppression of various cell-mediated immune pathways, the use of heroin and other opioids, even at normal therapeutic levels, may lead to opportunistic infections, which carry their own lasting effects.
The average purity of street heroin in the UK varies between 30% and 50% and heroin that has been seized at the border has purity levels between 40% and 60%; this variation has led to people suffering from overdoses as a result of the heroin missing a stage on its journey from port to end user, as each set of hands that the drug passes through adds further adulterants, the strength of the drug reduces, with the effect that if steps are missed, the purity of the drug reaching the end user is higher than they are used to and because they are unable to tolerate the increase, an overdose ensues.
Intravenous use of heroin (and any other substance) with non-sterile needles and syringes or other related equipment may lead to:
The risk of contracting blood-borne pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis by the sharing of needles
The risk of contracting bacterial or fungal endocarditis and possibly venous sclerosis
Abscesses
Poisoning from contaminants added to "cut" or dilute heroin
Physical dependence can result from prolonged use of all opioids, resulting in withdrawal symptoms on cessation of use
Decreased kidney function (although it is not currently known if this is because of adulterants or infectious diseases)
Many countries and local governments have begun funding programs that supply sterile needles to people who inject illegal drugs in an attempt to reduce these contingent risks, and especially the spread of blood-borne diseases. The Drug Policy Alliance reports that up to 75% of new AIDS cases among women and children are directly or indirectly a consequence of drug use by injection[citation needed]. The United States federal government does not operate needle exchanges, although some state and local governments do support needle exchange programs.
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