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French "shooting galleries" yea or nay
Topic Started: Oct 23 2012, 07:23 AM (99 Views)
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AFP - France's Socialist government plans to test launch a series of "shooting galleries" by the end of the year where addicts can inject illegal drugs under medical supervision, the health minister said.

"I hope that these experiments will be announced before the end of the year," Minister Marisol Touraine said Sunday on BFMTV, adding that a number of municipalities had agreed to host such sites.

Already in place in a number of European countries including Britain and Germany, the centres would provide sterile needles and medical oversight for injectors of heroin and other illegal drugs.

The idea quickly came under fire from France's right-wing opposition, with former education minister Luc Chatel calling it "irresponsible".

"This would be sending the wrong signal to our country's young people," he told Canal Plus television. "I find it very worrying this is coming from the health minister, who is there to protect the French and young people."

But Jean-Marie Le Guen, a Socialist lawmaker for Paris, hailed the project.

"This courageous decision will allow France to equip itself with an effective additional tool to reduce the risks" for drug users, he said in a statement.

http://www.france24.com/en/20121022-france-test-launch-shooting-galleries-drug-users
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Tybee
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Sounds like a good idea to me. If enough addicts utilize the service it should help get the back alley dope dens closed down, and hopefully help lessen the instances of addicts committing crimes to get money for a fix.

There always have been drug addicts, and there always will be drug addicts, no matter what laws are enacted against it. Making it all the more difficult for addicts to get a fix will not do much toward getting them into treatment or to insure they won't do something stupid to get drugs.
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Erna
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We think this is wonderful providing that the addicts pay for their own drugs and their own 'medical supervision' and also pay rent for the property they are occupying.

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Lindsay Lohan
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Packing as I type . . .
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