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And it will not -- would he want his daughter in one of these places? we know this wont get anyone off of drugs, it will get them into some big government program which will extend them on drugs. we can have an honest discussion about what we should do about the situation but it just simply will not work and we all know it. >> emily: right. in a city were homicides and gun violence and everything has absolutely skyrocketed why in the outgoing few weeks as the mayor focusing on something like thi...

Can rescue someone from an overdose. as you are watching, in this extraordinary video. even better, though, preventing the overdose in the first place. >> its just a little test strip. theyre really easy to use them. >> why are people testing them? >> drug users care about their health because people dont want to die. because people dont want to be sick. contrary to what everyone says, people that use drugs are human beings. and they want the same thing that every other human being wants. >> rep...

All while drug overdose deaths are soaring within the city. joining me now, kathy konig store, co-funder of the store foundation and joe borelli, new york city councilman. good morning to you you both. >> good morning. carley: the new york post has a write-up on this topic and they say new york citys war on drugs is over, the junkies won. tell us about the new law that governor hochul just signed. >> its the pinnacle of what could be called the harm reduction model of dealing with people using d...

Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:36 pm The New Zealand Drug Foundation is calling for a ‘public interest’ exemption to be added to the country’s drug laws to enable quicker and easier establishment of future harm reduction initiatives that could save lives.  The Foundation’s Executive Director, Sarah Helm, made the call today during a submission in support of the Drug and Substance Checking Bill - new legislation that will permanently legalise drug checking. “The Drug Foundation supports ...

Homelessness the last two years. since 2017 homelessness is up 30% in san francisco. thats three, zero. its because theyre getting the program totally backwards. theyre getting the problem totally backwards. they think because theres a surge in homelessness, they need to relax enforcement of their laws. actually, relaxing enforcement of the laws is causing more of a surge in homelessness. you see a similar situation in san francisco with the needle exchanges. they have this epidemic of drug use ...

Helped you win election is your outspokenness on behalf of homeless people and i want to ask you about the oip yoi opioi. seattle is trying to be the first u.s. city to open supervised injection sites where users can shoot up legally. you back those centers. tell us why. >> those have been tried across the country -- not in canada but other places in the world, switzerland, germany, europe, theyre a harm reduction place. we can make sure someone is there to make sure theres a safe place for peop...

The best places for him to receive treatment, in jail. the life of a heroin addict and the use of the consumption rooms, how they work and what benefit they might provide. >> you and i have talked about it a bunch, you go on the streets and see people use and how they die, and it makes sense until you balance it against resistance and addiction, where they see it as enabling and weakness of character and defies the reality. >> if saving lives the priority, as provocative as it could be, places l...

By many conservatives, governor pence made a seemingly progressive move authorizing a needle exchange program in rural indiana. an issue thats more often championed by democrats. >> i do not support needle exchanges antidrug policy but this is a public health emergency. >> its an effort to halt the hiv outbreak thats plaguing southeastern indiana. according to the governor, the area typically sees five new cases of the virus each year but officials report that since december, as many as 81 peopl...

Prevention program. >> it was targeted for high-risk injection drug users. we soon started learning about parents going to needle exchanges. >> today, they distribute the product to addicts, first responders, and learn to cope, a support group for parents of addicts. linda has been going to learn to cope meetings for the past nine years. >> nasal narcan, the overdose reversal drug is available at every meeting. if youre in this room, you should have narcan. >> they have distributed hundreds of k...

Injection drug users. we started to hear about parents going to needle exchanges. >> and first responders and learn to cope, its a support group for parents of addicts. linda has been learning to cope meetings for the last five years. >> the overdose reversal antidote is available weekly at all meetings. if you are in this room, you should have tphaur cam. >> they have managed to reverse at least nine overdoses. >> changing of the lips, fingernails, if you cant arouse them -- >> its ready to adm...