Sydney injecting room failure
The first six months operation at the Kings Cross heroin injecting rooms show that it is a failure.
- Only 1503 of NSW addicts are registered at Kings Cross.
- These registered addicts made 11273 visits to Kings Cross.
- This represents an average of one visit every 24 days.
- Clearly most registered addicts are not using Kings Cross.
- 47% of injections are using cocaine rather than heroin.
- An overdose is occuring once every 128 injections.
- Overdoses at Kings Cross are 4 times higher than similar centres overseas (ie 1 overdose every 500 injections)
- An overdose is a life threatening episode, so the NSW government facilitated 88 near deaths by maintaining addicts using dangerous drugs at Kings Cross.
- 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?
THE DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS-
More detoxification & rehabilitation that gets illicit drug users drug free.
Court ordered and supervised detoxification & rehabilitation.
Less illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes.
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