Biden Administration Funding Programs To Keep Drug Users Safe
EDITOR'S NOTE: Is the Biden administration using tax revenues to hand out crack pipes and create safe drug use zones? If so, it’s certainly a unique twist on the drug war narrative. Apparently, the US Department of Health & Human Services is giving out grants to nonprofits to provide these services. The goal is to keep drug users safe from accidental overdose and drug-related infections. As America’s insatiable appetite for illegal drugs remains as robust as ever, programs to discourage demand or punish suppliers have only utterly failed, time and again. So, if the government can neither “beat ‘em” nor “join ‘em,” then why not facilitate and micromanage the process? After all, that’s one of the few things that “big government” can do well, regardless of the outcome, favorable or not.
NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is reportedly seeking to give grants to programs that hand out crack pipes to drug addicts as part of a program to keep drug users safe. The idea is to limit infections among drug users.
A $30 million Biden administration grant program includes money for non-profit groups to purchase 'safe smoking kits/supplies according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon.
The pipes would also hopefully convince people to smoke instead of injecting drugs because injections are reportedly riskier.
San Francisco and Seattle have tried crack pipe kit distribution programs.
News of the pipe program came the same day that the Justice Department signaled that it might be willing to allow safe injection sites for people to use heroin and other drugs.
The first officially authorized safe injection sites opened in New York City in November.
The two facilities — which the city calls "overdose prevention centers" — provide a monitored place for drug users to partake, with staffers and supplies on hand to reverse overdoses.
Advocates have hailed them as a way to curb the scourge of overdose deaths.
The New York City sites so far have intervened in more than 125 overdoses among more than 640 users, many of whom have made multiple visits, according to OnPoint NYC, the organization running them.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Originally posted on Fox 5.
