BAD  EXPERIENCE FOR INJECTING ROOMS IN NETHERLAND

In August 1999, drug expert Sharon Pollock went to the Netherlands and she found –

 

In Amsterdam, injecting rooms are a disaster with –

·        Open street drug dealing

 

·        No police activity against drug dealers

 

In Arnhem, at the first ever injecting center set up 10 years ago, giving heroin to 450 addicts –

·        They have never got any addict off heroin

 

·        Their only objective is to get addicts off the streets

 

·        Police pick up addicts on the streets and take them to the center

 

·        The center is open every day (it only closes 2 days a year)

 

·        Addicts came at opening & left when the center closed at 6.00pm.

 

·        After the center closed, the addicts then used heroin in the streets

 

·        Center operators buy heroin for addicts from street drug dealers

 

·        Heroin is illegal, but tax money is mainly used for buying heroin

 

·        But for free heroin, addicts would have got off drugs

 

·        The center allowed addicts to smoke as much heroin as they liked

 

We support-

 Less addicts

Less drug pushers

Less drug related crime

Drug pushing & drug use must remain illegal

Taxes for injecting rooms must be used for detoxification & rehabilitation

Detoxification & rehabilitation must be court ordered

Drug centers must get addicts drug free

FACT SHEET M6

DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA Inc.