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Re:Gavin Newsom’s Next Political Test Is an Injection-Site Bill by 8note on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:43PM (#32544767)
I imagine the government needs to be involved because it's federally illegal. Having the state have your back is handy.

Otherwise, it's both safer for the people doing the injection, they are put in touch with people and tools to quit, and the needles are disposed of rather than being left on the street.

It's a societal benefit to have fewer people with addiction, safer streets, and fewer hospital trips due to overdose/people being dangerous while high. Thus the government makers more sense as the organizer than anything else

Re:Gavin Newsom’s Next Political Test Is an Injection-Site Bill by sammalloy on Sunday August 21, 2022 @06:12PM (#32544994)
Where I live, something like half of all addicts on the street are struggling with mental health issues and self-medicating to cope. If we can address that directly, it would greatly help.
Re:Gavin Newsom’s Next Political Test Is an Injection-Site Bill by CodeWriter23 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @09:43PM (#32546379)
Seems like a rosy distraction away from the key driver of increased overdoses: the opioid epidemic.