SYDNEY INJECTING ROOMS A FAILURE

 

The first six months operation at the Kings Cross heroin injecting rooms show that it is a failure.

 

1.   Only 1503 of NSW addicts are registered at Kings Cross.

2.   These registered addicts made 11273 visits to Kings Cross.

3.   This represents an average of one visit every 24 days.

4.   Clearly most registered addicts are not using Kings Cross.

5.   47% of injections are using cocaine rather than heroin.

6.   An overdose is occuring once every 128 injections.

7.   Overdoses at Kings Cross are 4 times higher than similar centres overseas (ie 1 overdose every 500 injections)

8.   An overdose is a life threatening episode, so the NSW government facilitated 88 near deaths by maintaining addicts using dangerous drugs at Kings Cross.

9.   Addicts may inject only once they enter Kings Cross but they can come back again many times a day.

 

Source: The Australian 29/11/01

 

What Must Be Disclosed-

What criminal sources provide the heroin and cocaine?

Where does the money come from for the illegal heroin and cocaine?

Why does the NSW government maintain addicts using dangerous drugs rather than helping them to get off drugs?

Why doesn’t the NSW government use the taxes for injecting rooms and syringe provision to help the addicts?

Why does the NSW government facilitate drug overdoses rather than provide detoxification and rehabilitation?

 

 

DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA Inc.

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