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Dec. 21st, 2016 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsA couple of weeks ago, I highlighted a conversation between Seattle's right-wing pundit (and former GOP candidate for Washington State Governor) John Carlson and the director of Insite Canada, in which Carlson was delighted to learn that Insite's record of getting people off heroin was less-than-stellar.
I pointed out that the point of Insite wasn't to get people off drugs. And it isn't. Instead, as the end-of-year report highlights, the point of Insite is to keep people alive, and in the thirteen years that Insite has been active, not a single person who uses Insite's facilities has died of a drug overdose.
156 people died of opioid overdose in King County in 2015, and the King County Director of Public Health said 2016 was on track for a similar tragic outcome.
I doubt those deaths weigh heavily on Carlson's conscience.
I pointed out that the point of Insite wasn't to get people off drugs. And it isn't. Instead, as the end-of-year report highlights, the point of Insite is to keep people alive, and in the thirteen years that Insite has been active, not a single person who uses Insite's facilities has died of a drug overdose.
156 people died of opioid overdose in King County in 2015, and the King County Director of Public Health said 2016 was on track for a similar tragic outcome.
I doubt those deaths weigh heavily on Carlson's conscience.
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Date: 2016-12-23 05:00 pm (UTC)