Quebec Safe Injection Sites Get Green Light

I detect sarcasm. But I agree. Hooray for enabling. Hooray for enabling people with opiate dependency problems to stay alive, by providing a clinical setting that massively reduces the risk of overdose death. Alive long enough to be ready for treatment? I'd vote for that. Hooray for enabling them to stay healthy by providing clean needles. Hooray for enabling them to do what they were going to do anyway, in private, off the street, so that children have fewer dirty needles to clamber over.

Injecting drug users have sex with other people, by the way, and if fewer of them get HIV in the first place, fewer will spread it to the non-drug-injecting population.So even if no one you care about is an IDU, you should still be glad that sites like these keep everyone else safer from HIV as well.

"Enabling" is a red herring, as no one who wasn't already injecting drugs is going to start just because this site exists - I mean, seriously, do people actually believe that? - but more important; to "enable" injecting drug users does not in any way mean that we have to stop providing treatment too. And given that these sites save lives, to complain about them like this is pretty close to saying that being alive is less important than being abstinent. Well, believe that if you want, but anyone who actually cares about people with drug problems may beg to differ.