Dear Editor,
Re: "Raucous Richmond meeting ends in vote to explore safe consumption site"
Safe injection sites are infinitely more helpful than letting people take drugs in unsafe environments.
People generally don’t see people struggling with drug addiction as human and always have moral binaries about drug abuse. “Drugs are bad, therefore everyone doing drugs is bad.”
The ones that are against safe injection sites do not understand that no one is being given drugs to take, no one wants to fully understand what they are going against because that would mean challenging their biases in a meaningful way.
It is concerningly apparent that these people don’t have humanity for people who struggle with addiction, they don’t care about how people die from drugs, they don’t care about the people doing drugs. They hate the look of homeless people and have never seen one as another human being.
Time and time again it is always about blaming victims of drug abuse and never about providing help.
Safe injection sites are a great gateway to get people help and make sure they are using safely.
Kevin Liu
Richmond
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