Taxpayer funded syringes harm addicts
Taxpayer funded syringe distribution is harming drug addicts and the community by -
- Helping addicts to continue using drugs
- Helping drug related crime as addicts use crime for heroin money
- Maintaining drug related crime victims
- Waisting police resources on drug related crime and drug pushers
- Promoting drug pushers who sell heroin to addicts
- Keeping addicts away from detoxification and rehabilitation
- Assisting addicts to get infected with hepatitis using syringes
- Diverting taxes away from detoxification and rehabilitation
- Waisting taxes on syringe clean up which should be used to help addicts get off drugs
- Providing syringes as weapons for drug related crime
- Normalizing and helping maintain drug use
- Sending the wrong message of acceptance of drug use
- Discarded syringes injuring the public
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.
FACT SHEET 21/2000
