other countries have been doing this since the 80's dude lol, including our own. this is nothing new.
Your going to have to cite that claim....
no administration has given out crack pipes
As a equitable solution for minorities or as an incentive for the health and safty of the intended target...never ever
a big difference between clean needles and crack pipes lol
clean needle programs have shown to reduce the number of overdoses and help get people off hard drugs
the only people reporting on this are tabloids first of all so i have no idea if this is even true.... but even when you go into the article;
it's mainly seems to be about clean needles and mentions general "smoking pipes" ... the idea behind that is to stop or reduce injection of drugs of all kinds.
and yes this country has previously given out crack pipes to users.
"Included in the grant is money to purchase 'safe smoking kits/supplies.' A spokesperson for HHS told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or 'any illicit substance.'
HHS said that the kits will serve to limit the risk of infection - typically users smoke out of glass pipes which can lead to cuts and sores that become infected with diseases like Hepatitis-C.
Handing out pipes is also intended to prompt users to smoke rather than inject themselves with some substances, like meth, as injection is far riskier.
Applicants for the program get priority if they serve 'underserved communities,' such as African Americans or Native Americans, or LGBTQ people.
The crack-cocaine epidemic starting in the 1980s disproportionately ravaged the black community.
Other harm reduction supplies that could be purchased with the grant money include testing equipment for sexually transmitted diseases, overdose reversal medication, medication lock boxes, syringes and substance test kits.
The grant program lasts three years and includes 25 awards of up to $400,000.
It is against the law to sell or distribute drug paraphernalia - including such pipes - unless authorized by state, local or federal law.
There were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, according to the CDC, a 28.5% increase from just the year prior. Three-quarters of those deaths involved opioids, many of them being synthetic opioids, such as methamphetamine or fentanyl."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...al-equity.html
So what's with this trucker thing in Canada? I've not been reading the news from your guys' side of the world cause I value my sanity, but did they run out of meth up there or something?
it's in the article i posted lol. harm reduction/needle exchange programs have given out free pipes for a long time.As I said no citation for handing out crack pipes previously...and yes they were very specifically
for smoking crack meth fentanyl
providing clean syringes and free pipes is encouraging use? this is as silly as the old GOP line of reasoning that if we legalized all drugs, we would have an epidemic of crack and heroin junkies the following week.With fentanyl deaths on the rise...what were they hoping by encouraging its use?
it is a standard harm reduction programs that is done all the time. the right is just running out of things to complain about.This will not go down well ahead of midterms
I looked it up. All I could find is that claim is total BS/. Biden is not giving out crack pipes.
WASHINGTON -- Dousing a social media firestorm, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to counter harm from illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.
People will believe anything that makes the other guy look bad.. how stupid is that lol. .
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/feds-taxpayer-money-safer-drug-smoking-pipes-82778266