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News: Stop our city's drugs scourge

Oh dear. Sadly an all to familiar scene, I lived around that area for a couple years and got to see this on a near daily basis. Never did I think that pulling out a video camera was an appropriate response though.

Wouldn't expect any better from the herald sun =\
 
For a herald sun article, it could of being worse.

what really pisses me off is the comments, which just goes to show the mindset of conservative Australia. comments like, 'execute all drug users - that will stop demand', and comments that the person had it coming and they had no sympathy for them. drug users are nearly seen as sub human by a proportion of the population. I'm afraid we have long way to go to changing ideas about prohibition.
 
Divine Moments said:
What a dick reporter.
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^this^

What a dick "newspaper". And no matter how many actual statistics I use in my comments on their website (even without completely warranted vicious language) they never publish my posts :|

Strange that.
 
i've seen much more violent blow outs and cannot think of any one of my friends that has been sent to hospital by someone with knowledge of GHB.
 
ugh reading through all those comments paints a stark picture of what people in melbourne actually think. slap fines and charge ppl who OD? be serious then everyone would be dying cuz no one would go to the hospital...all the nasty stuff about letting ppl rot and die. far out i knew my circle of friends was open minded and the rest of the city wasn't like that...but are they really THAT bad?


wish there was a believable/somewhat accurate stat on how many ppl actually use 'drugs'...
 
bud.lightyear said:
ugh reading through all those comments paints a stark picture of what people in melbourne actually think. slap fines and charge ppl who OD? be serious then everyone would be dying cuz no one would go to the hospital...all the nasty stuff about letting ppl rot and die. far out i knew my circle of friends was open minded and the rest of the city wasn't like that...but are they really THAT bad?


wish there was a believable/somewhat accurate stat on how many ppl actually use 'drugs'...
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You can get a pretty good picture from a range of stats. That being australia is about as drug hungry as it gets in terms of per capita use. I think melbourne would be even higher than other parts of the country.

Regarding the comments, I think the views of die hard herald sun readers is a far cry than that of the general public. Rest assured that open minded-ness is becoming progressively more popular, just gotta wait for them law makers to get with the times :|
 
There were comments on there about people in car accidents being more deserving of treatment than drug users ODing. Wtf?! In so many cases it's an idiot who's wrapped themselves around a pole. It would make more sense if they'd used someone suffering a heart attack or stroke as an example. ODs and car crashes are both down to user/driver error.

And seriously, how is someone's OD newsworthy anyway? Lucky for the reporter he was there on scene with a camera, because there's no way Ambulance Victoria will comment on specific cases.
 
ooh.shiny said:
There were comments on there about people in car accidents being more deserving of treatment than drug users ODing. Wtf?! In so many cases it's an idiot who's wrapped themselves around a pole. It would make more sense if they'd used someone suffering a heart attack or stroke as an example. ODs and car crashes are both down to user/driver error.
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I do believe they would be talking about the people affected in a car crash and not the hoon himself. ie pedestrians, people in different cars and such

From that article you can clearly tell that they would support castration of all people who have exceeded the legal speed limit by 2kms
 
The article and comments are pretty disgusting, not to mention the person recording it. If that were my mate blown out and someone was standing there recording him I would not be standing idle... ffs where's the respect for his privacy? Would they be recording if he'd been in a car accident, having an epileptic fit, a stroke?
 
The figures provided are interesting - particularly as they omit alcohol related ambo call-outs.
Ive got the 08-09 figures for Melbourne in front of me now - heroin OD 2313, likely heroin involvement 1501. Methamphetamine 870. Benzos 6033. And.. wait for it... alcohol 12577.

So really lay off us interesting drug users and cane those damn piss heads, if you please :)
 
psytaco said:
For a herald sun article, it could of being worse.

what really pisses me off is the comments, which just goes to show the mindset of conservative Australia. comments like, 'execute all drug users - that will stop demand', and comments that the person had it coming and they had no sympathy for them. drug users are nearly seen as sub human by a proportion of the population. I'm afraid we have long way to go to changing ideas about prohibition.
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I was actually surprised that the article was a step up from its usual stance.
 
ayjay said:
The figures provided are interesting - particularly as they omit alcohol related ambo call-outs.
Ive got the 08-09 figures for Melbourne in front of me now - heroin OD 2313, likely heroin involvement 1501. Methamphetamine 870. Benzos 6033. And.. wait for it... alcohol 12577.

So really lay off us interesting drug users and cane those damn piss heads, if you please :)
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You should post that up on the article. the problem is they are picky about what they publish. I have constructed some well thought out arguments for other herald sun articles in the past but they never seem to publish them. whilst some shit about 'commence martial law!', or 'just look at singapore's drug policy and look how well it works' gets published.

I'm surprised to see how common benzo call outs were. I guess they are widely prescribed and probably widely abused. sadly I would say a fair few of those would of been suicide attempts:(
 
^yeah I've had plenty of comments knocked back for publication. I'm probably a bit jaded on that now and less likely to bother.

Also - that article actually some interesting stuff - interviewing people advocating for peer naloxone for example.
 
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