{"id":3628,"date":"2021-05-03T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2021-05-03T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:52:21","slug":"taxpayer-funded-heroin-injection-sites-including-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer Funded Heroin Injection Sites in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/25\/heroin-injection-sites-california-484497\">this story<\/a> on the proposal for California to provide on-site medical care for individuals injecting illicit drugs, including, but not limited to heroin. The goal of SB 57 (Wiener, D San Francisco) is also to obtain immunity from federal enforcement for the professionals running the program and the drug-users. The most recent proposal awaiting legislative approval is for the California\u00a0 cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to open and run these injection sites for five years to \u201ctest\u201d the model.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposed motivator to incorporate this model into California is to prevent drug overdoses. It is unclear what Governor Newsom\u2019s current stance is on injection sites, but there was mention of his openness to safe injection sites during his campaign for governor in 2018.\u00a0 Newsom has a track record of being a leader who supports controversial laws on social issues, so it would come as no surprise if he were to approve this law.\u00a0 According to Assemblymember Rudy Salas, \u201cI do not believe that opening sites to allow hard drug use is the best use of taxpayer resources. I would rather see increased investment in mental health and substance abuse treatment to get people off of drugs and off of the streets.\u201d Many also argue that overdose deaths will continue whether to not \u2018safe injection\u2019 sites are established or not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has this story on the proposal for California to provide on-site medical care for individuals injecting illicit drugs, including, but not limited to heroin. The goal of SB 57 (Wiener, D San Francisco) is also to obtain immunity from federal enforcement for the professionals running the program and the drug-users. The most recent proposal awaiting legislative approval is for the California\u00a0 cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to open and run these injection sites for five years to \u201ctest\u201d the model.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-policy","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taxpayer Funded Heroin Injection Sites in California? - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3628\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taxpayer Funded Heroin Injection Sites in California? - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Politico has this story on the proposal for California to provide on-site medical care for individuals injecting illicit drugs, including, but not limited to heroin. 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