shal
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Hi All,
I'm a heroin addict from Sydney, Australia.
(Read my blog, www.youique.com/words)
Here is something I wanted to share with everyone because I myself have overdosed on heroin several times, luckily having a friend or companion close by to help me.
It's something I feel quiet passionate about and something I feel needs to voiced to all who might be able to relate and help if it becomes nessacery.
Approx. 5 Years ago in Australia, The Government allowed for our first supervised Injecting Centre to open in Kings Cross. This centre was designed for drug addicts to use and safely shoot up in a medically supervised environment, providing fresh and clean injecting equipment, helping to save 1000’s of lives from overdose and diseases, such as HIV & Hep C. It was also an enviroment that was safe from the authoritys, such as Police.
It’s a fantastic resource for IV drug users. I’ve used it many times and it’s fabulous. It provides you with a comfort of knowing you are in safe hands if something did go wrong which as we all know could happen ay anytime.
It's not just for heroin addicts but caters for any IV drug users, whether that be heroin, cocaine, morphine and pills like kapanol, oxycontin, etc etc, anyone who IV's and wants to be medically supervised and in a safe environment.
Clinical Research found the centre had supervised more than 214,400 visits since May 2001, managing 1262 drug overdoses without a fatality by December 2004. On average, the centre has 200 visits a day.
The bad news is that The NSW Opposition Leader, Peter Debnam, has vowed to close the centre if he becomes premier. For anyone who is interested or cares about the IV drug using community in Australia, I suggest writing a letter to Peter Debnam in Canberra and voicing your protest, also including the advantages of having such a facility open to the public.
Peter Debnams contact details:
Suite 102, 332-342 Oxford Street
Bondi Junction 2022
Phone (02) 9369 3017
Fax (02) 9389 8050
People like Peter Debnam are uneducated and uncaring. He is more interested in succeeding in recieving additional votes then the understanding, educating, and supporting a very proven, worth while initiative that by statistics alone shows it has saved 1000’s of lives. Do you want someone like Peter Debnam being Premier? Someone who is willing to basically allow people to die on the streets to win a political election? What sort of human is he?
If the centre is closed down we will have literally 1000’s of drug users injecting on the streets and certainly 100’s of fatal overdoses and the increased risk of spreading deadily diseases such as Hep C, HIV and other blood borne infections.
Take a look at the following Sydney Morning Herald Story regarding the Kings Cross Injecting Centre Saving Lives. It would be a disaster to see this facility closed down.
Don’t let like wise people similar to ourselves die. Stop the Government & Politicians from deciding fate and playing God. They have no right to make such choices, especially when the figures show that we are saving so many lives. Lives that may sooner or later become reformed, redeemed. People who may bring so much value to our world. The person who dies today because the clinic has been shutdown, could be the exact same person who has the cure to cancer inside his head tomorrow. You just never know!
You can check out some more details in my blog - www.youique.com/words
thanks!
shals!
I'm a heroin addict from Sydney, Australia.
(Read my blog, www.youique.com/words)
Here is something I wanted to share with everyone because I myself have overdosed on heroin several times, luckily having a friend or companion close by to help me.
It's something I feel quiet passionate about and something I feel needs to voiced to all who might be able to relate and help if it becomes nessacery.
Approx. 5 Years ago in Australia, The Government allowed for our first supervised Injecting Centre to open in Kings Cross. This centre was designed for drug addicts to use and safely shoot up in a medically supervised environment, providing fresh and clean injecting equipment, helping to save 1000’s of lives from overdose and diseases, such as HIV & Hep C. It was also an enviroment that was safe from the authoritys, such as Police.
It’s a fantastic resource for IV drug users. I’ve used it many times and it’s fabulous. It provides you with a comfort of knowing you are in safe hands if something did go wrong which as we all know could happen ay anytime.
It's not just for heroin addicts but caters for any IV drug users, whether that be heroin, cocaine, morphine and pills like kapanol, oxycontin, etc etc, anyone who IV's and wants to be medically supervised and in a safe environment.
Clinical Research found the centre had supervised more than 214,400 visits since May 2001, managing 1262 drug overdoses without a fatality by December 2004. On average, the centre has 200 visits a day.
The bad news is that The NSW Opposition Leader, Peter Debnam, has vowed to close the centre if he becomes premier. For anyone who is interested or cares about the IV drug using community in Australia, I suggest writing a letter to Peter Debnam in Canberra and voicing your protest, also including the advantages of having such a facility open to the public.
Peter Debnams contact details:
Suite 102, 332-342 Oxford Street
Bondi Junction 2022
Phone (02) 9369 3017
Fax (02) 9389 8050
People like Peter Debnam are uneducated and uncaring. He is more interested in succeeding in recieving additional votes then the understanding, educating, and supporting a very proven, worth while initiative that by statistics alone shows it has saved 1000’s of lives. Do you want someone like Peter Debnam being Premier? Someone who is willing to basically allow people to die on the streets to win a political election? What sort of human is he?
If the centre is closed down we will have literally 1000’s of drug users injecting on the streets and certainly 100’s of fatal overdoses and the increased risk of spreading deadily diseases such as Hep C, HIV and other blood borne infections.
Take a look at the following Sydney Morning Herald Story regarding the Kings Cross Injecting Centre Saving Lives. It would be a disaster to see this facility closed down.
Don’t let like wise people similar to ourselves die. Stop the Government & Politicians from deciding fate and playing God. They have no right to make such choices, especially when the figures show that we are saving so many lives. Lives that may sooner or later become reformed, redeemed. People who may bring so much value to our world. The person who dies today because the clinic has been shutdown, could be the exact same person who has the cure to cancer inside his head tomorrow. You just never know!
You can check out some more details in my blog - www.youique.com/words
thanks!
shals!