Look at this way if you had someone you truely love, would you give them a rig or would you want them to get the real help they really need ? Whats next a safe driving lane for drinking and driving. What you see here is propaganda to keep people comfortable in thier uncomfortablity, and poverty pimping at it's finest.
If they want to do drugs, why should the taxpayer pay for thier addiction? i would think. let them carry on with the drugs, the fuckers would die after a while. in the meantime carry on with programs that raise awareness against drugs easy!
My name is Ana, i'm from Colombia and i'm 20 years old. this kind of projects are really inspirators for me, i'm studying social work at The National university and my life project is oriented in the comunity and the way i can help her. I'd like to meet people interested in develop this type of projects in Colombia, maybe people from Insite, so we can talk about it. ;)
@metemi In order to seek treatment, they need to be ALIVE. And if you watched the entire film, you would know that they mention giving referrals for treatment centers more than once.
@electrogeek77 There is a lack of treatment resources though, we have the largest addiction problem in North America, we should also have equivalent resources. It's very difficult for addicts to get good treatment, the waiting list is huge.
Insite gets 2.9 million dollars a year. if you divid that by the approx. 22 million canadian taxpayers. By my calculation that is roughly 13 cents a year it costs me to keep Insite open. I will pay that 13 cents. Drug addicts are our partents, friends, and lovers. it is worth my 13 cents
@taylorjade9 yah 13 cents for all canadians, even though this one clinic doesn't affect all canadians, it only affects vancouver citizens so why should we be paying taxes for it? that's like Ottawa getting a new hospital that has all these new cancer treatments but everyone in canada has to pay. It should only be the citizens of vancouver paying the tax for this injection center. also it would be a monthly tax not a onetime fee since we also have to pay for the people working in the center.
@pwnage332 who do you think funds hospitals? The federal government, so thats like saying why are my taxes paying for the fund your city hospital. Your saying you care more about your 13 cents more than people getting proper help? Who cares who and where, as long as its lightening the load on hospitals and PEOPLE'S lives. Us taxpayers are saving way more than 13 cents in taxes because these addicts aren't spreading as much diseases and viruses like HIV.
OHHH POOR JUNKIES...FUCK OFF ALREADY.. FEEL SORRY FOR LOSERS THAT GIVE UP.... OUR TAX DOLLARS NOT ONLY HOUSE THEM, CLOTH THEM, AND FEED THEM, BUT NOW WE GIVE THEM FREE NEEDLES AND DRUGS. NOT TO MENTION ALL THE CHANGE THEY BAG FOR..BUT OUR SCHOOLS LOST THEIR SPORTS PROGRAM AND HOT LUNCH PROGRAM NOT TO MENTION ALL THE SCHOOL CLOSURES SO VANCOUVER YES TO DRUG USE NO TO EDUCATION AND OUT FUTURE....OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE
There not providing drugs for these people, only safe places to use them... its costing MUCH less of our tax dollars to provide a safe place to use, then to house feed and lock them up in jail. Have you ever been addicted to anything? probably not. so STFU. you can't understand the needs and feelings of an addict, til you've been there.
it s a poverty pimp industry , truely, Vancouver Coastal Health needs to keep this in their care, many addicts are taken advantage of those who work at insite and at needle exchange, working addicts are paid $ 27.00 per shift by the Portland Hotel Society.
Good for you Vancouver. I wish too see this in the US some time soon. to often I.V. drug users are viewed calusly as "delibratet suicides" and not as the sons, brothers, sisters co workers and best friends that they/we are. Everyone deserves a chance to recover. In order to make that happen we all deserve to live long enough in order to make that recovery possible.
The government should also provide the supply to insure purity. It is a good thing that the street heroin in Vancouver is usually of a fairly high quality. But to depend on the gangsters instead of pharmaceutical companies for drug quality?
@bigtarrose Thats what they do in Russia (I believe thats where they do that at). It kind of reminds me of a methadone clinic, but instead of methadone, they supply users with FREE pure heroin in clear liquid form. Each patient gets a stabilized dose each day, but there I think you can go upto 2 or 3 times a day. There is a doctor who opened it seems to be getting great results. I learned about this last night on a show that I saw on National Geographic "Drugs Inc - Heroin" It's a good show
Much to my own surprise I have been introduced to injectable drugs and I know that an injection site like this in the States (all over the States) would be a huge help in working with the using community. We waste millions and even billions of dollars "fighting" battles with drugs that we can not win. It is time to test new methods. Bringing users into sites like this is one way to identify and help them, not prosecute them.
When Harper sang the Beatles it made me realize he is a psychopath. To have such a lack of empathy for your fellow man and then sing songs written by John Lennon. When will we have a strong enough leader who will be able to rid us of the devil spawn better known as Harper.
addiction is the problem, not the addicts. No one ever thinks they are going to be an addict. I have a great family, I was an athlete, I even volunteered. I was so anti-drugs that I used to put people cigarettes out so I wouldnt have their 2nd hand smoke. One day ... feeling down about my job being phased out I joined a freind and tried crystal meth. 7 years it took me to get clean. I am alive today because of harm reduction programs.
You tried crystal meth? Holy fuck was that stupid! I can't fathom why anyone would even try it.... Shit is a death sentence, worst form of suicide. Glad to hear that you are clean now. I hope you enjoy the rest of your life free from that poison!
@strelok5831 I am not sure what the question is?? If you mean how much I spent - it was around $60 a day on the habit, but the amount of money it cost me by ruining my career and using up 7 of my best years would be equal to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hi,may I ask what substance you used to be addicted to?How old were you when you started using,and when you quit using?What made you decide to quit?How many times did you relapse? Do you still feel tempted sometimes to use?Do you have a drug-free,happy life now?Hope you do!Thanks if you respond to me...sorry for my mistakes,I am not a native English-speaker!Take good care!
@wannaknowit Meth (tina) It was at a party, I do not drink much, I do not smoke, I disliked people who did drugs - but I was a little drunk and so I tried it and I was intantly addicted. The first year was fine, but by the 4 year my body was shutting down, I had lost most of my friends, my career was gone, I was poor, I would have been dead in a few months. I tried quiting dozens of times over 4 years. I am happy and drug free but I am tempted every day. I avoid people who can tempt me.
Thanks for the real quick answer!!It must be very difficult to be tempted every single day,must hurt a lot:-((((Hope by the time this temptation goes away completely!What does it mean that "your body was shutting down"?It wanted to get rid of meth maybe?Did doctors help you to quit??Or someone else?What do you do when you are tempted?You try distracting your attention by doing some work maybe?Is "tina" the other nickname for meth?I do appreciate your help and thanks again!!:-)
@wannaknowit Meth is very hard on the body as it is very toxic. It destroys your kidneys, your liver, and it stops bloodflow to your teeth so they slowly die and fall out. I lost two teeth in the back. I have fatty liver now, While you are doing it you don't care. Meth floods your body with the same feelings you get when you do something good, or feel proud, you lose the ability to feel guilt, shame, and fear.
@wannaknowit A doctor can not help you get off of Chrystal Meth (tina) except to help you detox, even therapy is hard because the drug turns you into a narcassist (a know it all) and you argue with them. The only real way to stop is to just STOP and avoid it. This is why it is so hard to get clean and stay clean. If you slip up and do it again you literally forget why you want to stop because it feels too good,
I appreciate your respond so quick again!! I always learn something new from people though I use no drugs,my chosen one is only too much chocolate,that is bad,too.Thanks very much!Hope you'll stay away from meth for good.
I'm a CONSERVATIVE and even I can see that this is an evil that is both necessary and overall beneficial both humanly and financially to the medical community. just make shure you collect the needles from them when they're done.
aya58340, I think you are confusing Narcan with Naltrexone. Narcan is a drug they hit you up with to reverse the effects of heroin after you have overdosed. Naltrexone is a implant or tablet you take so if you use you don't feel it. Totally different drugs. I take Naltrexone Pills every day and it keeps me clean.
Binloved, like your idea. Here's the thing, people who use drugs are going to use no matter what, whether they have to recycle a needle and cross their fingers or if they have something like this site Rather than make judgement calls, people should be more realistic, addicts sell sex for their fix, so when a customer hooks up w/ them they r exposing themselves, we can accept what we can't change and be advocates for what we can
This is a brilliant idea. We have a similar safe injection centre here in Sydney . It has been going foe many years now and has saved thousands of lives.
We have just one Medically Supervised Injecting Room at Kings Cross, in Sydney. They have saved my life about 3 or 4 times in the last few years. They only ever give you Narcan if absolutly necessary. They also provide clean equipmet for you to take away, and information on safer using and all kinds of treatments for those who want them. It just makes total sense as it saves lives and Hep C & HIV infections.
Pwaaa bro, wulda been spewing to get the narcan after having a hit. That shit is fukn strong, got it just b4 i got my implant a month ago. I had lied and done it 2 days b4. Hung like a dog. Whats good is, its over and i been over a month off it now.
they are human beings with a purpose. their lives are just as important as anyone elses. unlike you, they have feelings. it's people like you that make this world cynical and depressing. you are clearly uneducated and I'm 100% sure there are more drug users out there with a greater capacity of knowledge than you.
i love how you look at addicts. im a homeless girl in ireland who is on drugs im alone and get treated so bad it is refreshing to hear someone like you. keep well and thank you again
Most of these druggies, here in Vancouver and Canada, aren't druggies unless they are by choice. Canada gives you a living if you have the faintest amount of work ethic. They give you so much oppurtunity, yet most take drugs on choice. Pure stupidity. Most don't even want rehabilitation.
I would like to know who made this video as I would like to use it in a project at school. I am unable to do so without being able to properly indicate the maker of this video and if it is copy written.
very informative. i hope that people use this wonderful resource. i also hope that this takes away some of the shame people must feel being an addict. I am happy to see the community of users coming together in their own way and being politically active, and i am happy that the government is receptive to that. we could learn a lot from this approach here on the east coast.
These sites are here for ONE REASON ONLY: to stop the spread of HIV and hepatitis caused by people using contaminated needles. And you know what? It works. And to the dickless idiot who suggested that insite is used more by middle class people that want to shoot up on the way home from work, I suggest that you actually pay a visit to and take a look at insite before talking shit. You aren't going to find any suburb dwellers back there.
the wai i look at things is people smoke cigarettes without regard for their health.
Ultimately the drug user is destroying their health. So, instead of having them literally lick rocks off the street lookin for drugs, robbing people, etc. this place is needed.
The moral high road doesn't always work in this situation. If they close it there will just be a higher crime rate. give them their fix
i've been to the dt east side. It's one of the saddest places I have ever seen.
a lot of you talk about a waste of tax fund and just need to send them to jail and all that.
b4 you go off talking shit go look at how much of your taxes it takes to house 1 inmate next to giving that 1 human a safe place to shoot up. On top of that they have help open to them when they go. Id say i am all for it and wish the U.S. was more in to helping everyone and not just the upper 50% of society. I think the fact you your government is even thinking about something like this is just great
I used insight about 700X. It was in a dark time (10 months ago I quit) and now I am working part time and just got a c+ in english 12.
They saved my life by giving me medical aid and although it does in my opinion sometimes help perpetuate addiction it also helps in reducing the harm from addiction. I love the staff like family and wish them safety at the gong show insight. If anyone from insight reads this its me badger, boxing (sort of ) and weighing in a 200 lbs
it is very shocking to me some of the comments that have been posted regarding this issue. it is sad to think that people assume that an addict is a criminal or an otherwise 'bad' person. addicts are PEOPLE, and could be your brother, sister, mother, father, coworker, doctor, police officer...the idea of safe injection sites, protects everyone, not just the drug user. and until you walk a mile in an addicts shoes, don't judge these people.
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I say let these asshole addicts die on the streets. What do I care if one of these scum-of-the-earth dies? It would be a plus if they died. Why in the hell do I have to pay for drugs? I didn't vote for this shit.
Open 18 hours a day 7 days a week, but hell your doctors is not open that long, its so unfair. Why are we looking after people who choose to do this, yet you try and make a normal doctors appointment. Why are they entitled tothis, they are already on welfare, madness, absolute madness!!!!
so why help them, i really dont understand, surely this is encouraging it and telling them come here and we will help you shoot drugs. By building the injection centre you are saying yeah come do drugs. Have these people ever been on the other side of being a victim of adrug user being raped or robbed because someone is on drugs and they are encourgaing the using, i just dont get it, makes me sick to my heart!!!! This money could be spent on finding cures!! disgraceful
You are just stupid and it is because of idiots like you the world is upside down, there is no proof either way, so mr know it all tell me what makes them become drug users, for every arugment for there is one against, and as Northgrant says what do we care, let them die on the streets, taxes should be going towards other things - too many fools in power whose heads are in the dman clouds. Get real!!!!!
I do have compassion, but my compassion goes to victims - the brothers, sisters, parents and any innocent victim who they MIGHT rob and I use the word MIGHT - I know not all of them rob - and traumatise for money to feed their habit, so my compassion is there, just not misplaced. Assiting them is just prolonging their agony and others - thats my opinion, just because we don't have the same clear cut opinions does not mean I don't have compassion, just not the same as yours!
This is an excellent program. I hope that in the programs like this will start to be embraced in cities across the country because they're desperately needed... All you folks at Insite: keep up the great work and fight like hell for your exemption!
to all those who put down people with addiction, I hope to God that none of you ever have someone you love or are friends with or someone you know become addicted to drugs cause it's devestating and you would want them to get the help to clean up or at least stay safe while in their addiction. God Bless the homeless and the addict
I was a user & used the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre to shoot up heroin. Through counselling at the centre I'm now on the methadone program & haven't used heroin for months. These places clean up the streets & reduce vulnerable childrens exposure to illicit drugs, give addicts safe places to shoot up & like me help people into drug maintenance programs. This is good for everyone, it saves the community money due to less health costs. I'm now working so no welfare costs, perfect!!
Yeah? LETHAL INJECTION FOR THE PUSHER MAN. CHAIN GANG FOR THE CUSTOMERS. Wake up; freedom comes with responsibility toward the responsible. I am tired of wasting resources on the wasted.
Screw that, these people made the choice to stick a needle in their veins. What about all the hardworking single parents and working poor who struggle to make ends meet and not turn to drugs or booze because they have difficulties. These drug people should not receive any welfare payments at all, it just goes directly to the local drug dealer thus adding fuel to the fire. They will still steal and rob to feed their habit,so give the welfare to those who really need it. Not to lost causes.
hmm deres pros and cons.. maybe make a S.I.S legal and reserch it and see what effect on the surounding comunity it has then decide if or not 2 open more. then we can all say eaither we tryed to help them but as always thay abuse what eva help is handed to them, or we can say yes hiv/aids and infections/O.D'S are down this has worked lets do more but thay may abuse there s.i.s and think fuck it now we have a nice place to inject with all the support why shud we give it up so i really dont know
Also, drug users do try to get clean. Addiction is a mental and physical illness that people battle with all of there lives - even long after they have stopped using. It's a medical issue, not political or legal.
On top of that many IV drug users are mentally ill, homeless, or have suffered years of abuse. Many have been introduced to drugs by parents or other trusted guardians. Many heavy users were not given the opportunities or the chance to have a normal life.
Drug use is unsafe, but preventing some of the harms associated with drug use not only saves our health care system MILLIONS of dollars, It also gives people (users) another day and another chance to get clean.
I have personally experienced InSite, and I can definitively say that it is a good place and nothing but a good place. It makes a huge difference and people really do appreciate it. It's a drop in the bucket, but it's a start.
Yes, they should get help. Insite is part of the solution, but not the full answer. It is the Harm-reduction pillar in the four pillar approach. The other three pillars are mostly unpracticed in Vancouver. They are: Enforcement, Treatment and Education.
As for putting a drag on the health care system...Hello, alleviating that is one of the functions of Insite. (did you not pay attention to the video?)
of course this is a good idea. I hope its so successful that other cities (in the states) can use this as a guide. Jesus, they,re addicts not child molesting lepers!
You are more than an ass you are a jackass. Take 1 minute out of your self congratulatory day and consider 2 poor decisions that you made and what the outcome was because it only takes 2 poor decisions to become a drug addict; obtaining the drugs and doing them one time.
i used to work for street youth job action doing needle sweeps. picking up on average of about 200-250 dirty needles DAILY thru some of the DTES back alleys. there are sharp containers stragitly placed around the area but users would just throw their needles in front of them anyways.
I love anybody that thinks this is an EASY issue. It's been around since the beginning of man, yet it's so easy to figure out. Dealing with people like that make drug addiction seem a viable alternative.
Round them all up and give them a choice, offer them help to clean up, get a job and a place to live or go to jail. This type of life should not be an option.
I'm a prick because I think they should either get help and clean up or go to jail for doing something that is illegal? Are you saying it is their right to continue to do drugs and be a drag on our health care/legal system?
The law is an ass. How the hell are they hurting you by injecting drugs into their own bodies? If all drugs were legal, there would be no gangs, no killings, no robbings. Drug use should not be a
criminal act, it does harm to noone but the user, it's the lifestyle, which is moulded around the drugs' illegality that does the damage. Heroin is an easy, cheap drug to produce, but drug cartels jack up the price 2-3 fold on each tier of distrobution in order to squeeze every last possible dime out of the addicts. if it were legal you would have a much cheaper product with guarented purity, sterility and
I support save injection. People will do drugs no matter what. Why not have them do it in a safe, clean enviroment where AIDs will not be spread and overdoses can be prevented on site. This saves ambulance time and tax payer dollars.
I support this. The way they've been dealing with it in the past obviously doesnt work, and it has worked well in places like Europe where they have been doing this for years. Keep it up!
Interesting idea, but seriously flawed. Wouldn't it be more sensible to just let the addicts get clean, legal pharmaceuticals instead of adulterated drugs at prices that force them to become criminals? (Yeah, it's their choice, ok, but if kicking was easy, more people would do it.)
This clip points out the absurdity of providing addicts with a clean, supervised site to inject god-only-knows-what kind of illegal crap.
Help them continue their misery yeah great idea, looks like a make work project for nurses and administrators to make more money off of the government tit. Overdose is a junkie's way of self euthanasia.
Look at this way if you had someone you truely love, would you give them a rig or would you want them to get the real help they really need ? Whats next a safe driving lane for drinking and driving. What you see here is propaganda to keep people comfortable in thier uncomfortablity, and poverty pimping at it's finest.
70x7brody 7 months ago
If they want to do drugs, why should the taxpayer pay for thier addiction? i would think. let them carry on with the drugs, the fuckers would die after a while. in the meantime carry on with programs that raise awareness against drugs easy!
Tomahawk1999 7 months ago
My name is Ana, i'm from Colombia and i'm 20 years old. this kind of projects are really inspirators for me, i'm studying social work at The National university and my life project is oriented in the comunity and the way i can help her. I'd like to meet people interested in develop this type of projects in Colombia, maybe people from Insite, so we can talk about it. ;)
anita113 8 months ago
How about TREATMENT??
metemi 9 months ago
@metemi In order to seek treatment, they need to be ALIVE. And if you watched the entire film, you would know that they mention giving referrals for treatment centers more than once.
electrogeek77 9 months ago
@electrogeek77 There is a lack of treatment resources though, we have the largest addiction problem in North America, we should also have equivalent resources. It's very difficult for addicts to get good treatment, the waiting list is huge.
metemi 9 months ago
Insite gets 2.9 million dollars a year. if you divid that by the approx. 22 million canadian taxpayers. By my calculation that is roughly 13 cents a year it costs me to keep Insite open. I will pay that 13 cents. Drug addicts are our partents, friends, and lovers. it is worth my 13 cents
taylorjade9 9 months ago
@taylorjade9 yah 13 cents for all canadians, even though this one clinic doesn't affect all canadians, it only affects vancouver citizens so why should we be paying taxes for it? that's like Ottawa getting a new hospital that has all these new cancer treatments but everyone in canada has to pay. It should only be the citizens of vancouver paying the tax for this injection center. also it would be a monthly tax not a onetime fee since we also have to pay for the people working in the center.
pwnage332 5 months ago
@pwnage332 who do you think funds hospitals? The federal government, so thats like saying why are my taxes paying for the fund your city hospital. Your saying you care more about your 13 cents more than people getting proper help? Who cares who and where, as long as its lightening the load on hospitals and PEOPLE'S lives. Us taxpayers are saving way more than 13 cents in taxes because these addicts aren't spreading as much diseases and viruses like HIV.
Samil360 5 months ago
I think it's a good idea to have such a scheme in place. It gets people to use fresh, clean needles and if they OD, theres help available
reasland 9 months ago
Go to blood alley and have some fun
tucon100 10 months ago
I think this is a great idea. They are going to use regardless, so give them the opportunity to be safe and recieve some counseling.
erin7375 10 months ago
OHHH POOR JUNKIES...FUCK OFF ALREADY.. FEEL SORRY FOR LOSERS THAT GIVE UP.... OUR TAX DOLLARS NOT ONLY HOUSE THEM, CLOTH THEM, AND FEED THEM, BUT NOW WE GIVE THEM FREE NEEDLES AND DRUGS. NOT TO MENTION ALL THE CHANGE THEY BAG FOR..BUT OUR SCHOOLS LOST THEIR SPORTS PROGRAM AND HOT LUNCH PROGRAM NOT TO MENTION ALL THE SCHOOL CLOSURES SO VANCOUVER YES TO DRUG USE NO TO EDUCATION AND OUT FUTURE....OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE
Misssilverbullet 1 year ago
There not providing drugs for these people, only safe places to use them... its costing MUCH less of our tax dollars to provide a safe place to use, then to house feed and lock them up in jail. Have you ever been addicted to anything? probably not. so STFU. you can't understand the needs and feelings of an addict, til you've been there.
MsBrittanyRochelle 10 months ago
put some munchies in the chill out room
66jesko 1 year ago
it s a poverty pimp industry , truely, Vancouver Coastal Health needs to keep this in their care, many addicts are taken advantage of those who work at insite and at needle exchange, working addicts are paid $ 27.00 per shift by the Portland Hotel Society.
70x7brody 1 year ago
omg they do need that safe injecting thing
tonytonytonytony222 1 year ago
JUST legalize the stuff- society ain't gonna end
put an end to the drug cartels and the drug wars once and for all !!!!
lowaces 1 year ago
Good for you Vancouver. I wish too see this in the US some time soon. to often I.V. drug users are viewed calusly as "delibratet suicides" and not as the sons, brothers, sisters co workers and best friends that they/we are. Everyone deserves a chance to recover. In order to make that happen we all deserve to live long enough in order to make that recovery possible.
XRISSX77 1 year ago 3
The government should also provide the supply to insure purity. It is a good thing that the street heroin in Vancouver is usually of a fairly high quality. But to depend on the gangsters instead of pharmaceutical companies for drug quality?
bigtarrose 2 years ago 3
@bigtarrose Thats what they do in Russia (I believe thats where they do that at). It kind of reminds me of a methadone clinic, but instead of methadone, they supply users with FREE pure heroin in clear liquid form. Each patient gets a stabilized dose each day, but there I think you can go upto 2 or 3 times a day. There is a doctor who opened it seems to be getting great results. I learned about this last night on a show that I saw on National Geographic "Drugs Inc - Heroin" It's a good show
mandyjuelz 1 year ago
Much to my own surprise I have been introduced to injectable drugs and I know that an injection site like this in the States (all over the States) would be a huge help in working with the using community. We waste millions and even billions of dollars "fighting" battles with drugs that we can not win. It is time to test new methods. Bringing users into sites like this is one way to identify and help them, not prosecute them.
tabmosprat 2 years ago 3
we need this in ireland and everywhere else ive lost so many friends who died on the streets in alley ways and public toilets
jenzZ84 2 years ago
When Harper sang the Beatles it made me realize he is a psychopath. To have such a lack of empathy for your fellow man and then sing songs written by John Lennon. When will we have a strong enough leader who will be able to rid us of the devil spawn better known as Harper.
oxjr 2 years ago
addiction is the problem, not the addicts. No one ever thinks they are going to be an addict. I have a great family, I was an athlete, I even volunteered. I was so anti-drugs that I used to put people cigarettes out so I wouldnt have their 2nd hand smoke. One day ... feeling down about my job being phased out I joined a freind and tried crystal meth. 7 years it took me to get clean. I am alive today because of harm reduction programs.
oxjr 2 years ago 23
@oxjr
You tried crystal meth? Holy fuck was that stupid! I can't fathom why anyone would even try it.... Shit is a death sentence, worst form of suicide. Glad to hear that you are clean now. I hope you enjoy the rest of your life free from that poison!
JAMTAM 2 years ago
Thank for the program n u should be proud of urself bc of this. Good luck w ur life ^^
bachtuocnhoc 2 years ago
@oxjr
I was on jib in vancouver selling ( got busted ) : (
now I am clean, be well and god bless you!!!
planes3333 1 year ago
@oxjr How much money you lose?
strelok5831 1 year ago
@strelok5831 I am not sure what the question is?? If you mean how much I spent - it was around $60 a day on the habit, but the amount of money it cost me by ruining my career and using up 7 of my best years would be equal to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
oxjr 1 year ago
@oxjr
Hi,may I ask what substance you used to be addicted to?How old were you when you started using,and when you quit using?What made you decide to quit?How many times did you relapse? Do you still feel tempted sometimes to use?Do you have a drug-free,happy life now?Hope you do!Thanks if you respond to me...sorry for my mistakes,I am not a native English-speaker!Take good care!
wannaknowit 1 year ago
@wannaknowit Meth (tina) It was at a party, I do not drink much, I do not smoke, I disliked people who did drugs - but I was a little drunk and so I tried it and I was intantly addicted. The first year was fine, but by the 4 year my body was shutting down, I had lost most of my friends, my career was gone, I was poor, I would have been dead in a few months. I tried quiting dozens of times over 4 years. I am happy and drug free but I am tempted every day. I avoid people who can tempt me.
oxjr 1 year ago
@oxjr
Thanks for the real quick answer!!It must be very difficult to be tempted every single day,must hurt a lot:-((((Hope by the time this temptation goes away completely!What does it mean that "your body was shutting down"?It wanted to get rid of meth maybe?Did doctors help you to quit??Or someone else?What do you do when you are tempted?You try distracting your attention by doing some work maybe?Is "tina" the other nickname for meth?I do appreciate your help and thanks again!!:-)
wannaknowit 1 year ago
@wannaknowit Meth is very hard on the body as it is very toxic. It destroys your kidneys, your liver, and it stops bloodflow to your teeth so they slowly die and fall out. I lost two teeth in the back. I have fatty liver now, While you are doing it you don't care. Meth floods your body with the same feelings you get when you do something good, or feel proud, you lose the ability to feel guilt, shame, and fear.
oxjr 1 year ago
@wannaknowit A doctor can not help you get off of Chrystal Meth (tina) except to help you detox, even therapy is hard because the drug turns you into a narcassist (a know it all) and you argue with them. The only real way to stop is to just STOP and avoid it. This is why it is so hard to get clean and stay clean. If you slip up and do it again you literally forget why you want to stop because it feels too good,
oxjr 1 year ago
@oxjr
I appreciate your respond so quick again!! I always learn something new from people though I use no drugs,my chosen one is only too much chocolate,that is bad,too.Thanks very much!Hope you'll stay away from meth for good.
wannaknowit 1 year ago
I've seen them, 14 year old girls prostituting the streets that look like trucks ran over them.
luckyvet 2 years ago
I'm a CONSERVATIVE and even I can see that this is an evil that is both necessary and overall beneficial both humanly and financially to the medical community. just make shure you collect the needles from them when they're done.
CheetahFoxx 2 years ago 2
aya58340, I think you are confusing Narcan with Naltrexone. Narcan is a drug they hit you up with to reverse the effects of heroin after you have overdosed. Naltrexone is a implant or tablet you take so if you use you don't feel it. Totally different drugs. I take Naltrexone Pills every day and it keeps me clean.
decaysvegan 2 years ago
Binloved, like your idea. Here's the thing, people who use drugs are going to use no matter what, whether they have to recycle a needle and cross their fingers or if they have something like this site Rather than make judgement calls, people should be more realistic, addicts sell sex for their fix, so when a customer hooks up w/ them they r exposing themselves, we can accept what we can't change and be advocates for what we can
kittykattzzonfire 2 years ago 3
This is a brilliant idea. We have a similar safe injection centre here in Sydney . It has been going foe many years now and has saved thousands of lives.
decaysvegan 2 years ago
yeah i've herd bout your centres. Im frm melbourne.
aya58340 2 years ago
We have just one Medically Supervised Injecting Room at Kings Cross, in Sydney. They have saved my life about 3 or 4 times in the last few years. They only ever give you Narcan if absolutly necessary. They also provide clean equipmet for you to take away, and information on safer using and all kinds of treatments for those who want them. It just makes total sense as it saves lives and Hep C & HIV infections.
decaysvegan 2 years ago
Pwaaa bro, wulda been spewing to get the narcan after having a hit. That shit is fukn strong, got it just b4 i got my implant a month ago. I had lied and done it 2 days b4. Hung like a dog. Whats good is, its over and i been over a month off it now.
aya58340 2 years ago
instead of risking ur life n then, being saved, why don't u just quit?!!!
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RaveNudoPower 2 years ago
good idea- we need more of these sites around
rottweiler124 2 years ago
they are human beings with a purpose. their lives are just as important as anyone elses. unlike you, they have feelings. it's people like you that make this world cynical and depressing. you are clearly uneducated and I'm 100% sure there are more drug users out there with a greater capacity of knowledge than you.
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kaitiemc 2 years ago
i love how you look at addicts. im a homeless girl in ireland who is on drugs im alone and get treated so bad it is refreshing to hear someone like you. keep well and thank you again
jenzZ84 2 years ago
It's pathetic too.
Most of these druggies, here in Vancouver and Canada, aren't druggies unless they are by choice. Canada gives you a living if you have the faintest amount of work ethic. They give you so much oppurtunity, yet most take drugs on choice. Pure stupidity. Most don't even want rehabilitation.
GNSstudios 2 years ago
I would like to know who made this video as I would like to use it in a project at school. I am unable to do so without being able to properly indicate the maker of this video and if it is copy written.
Mintcateyes 2 years ago
what video is this from?
i am very interested in seeing the rest.
Nerdball3 2 years ago
they don't give them drugs, they have to bring thier own. Hard earned money? You don't know what hard work is.
rinaellarinaella 2 years ago 2
very informative. i hope that people use this wonderful resource. i also hope that this takes away some of the shame people must feel being an addict. I am happy to see the community of users coming together in their own way and being politically active, and i am happy that the government is receptive to that. we could learn a lot from this approach here on the east coast.
th3ch34t 3 years ago 3
These sites are here for ONE REASON ONLY: to stop the spread of HIV and hepatitis caused by people using contaminated needles. And you know what? It works. And to the dickless idiot who suggested that insite is used more by middle class people that want to shoot up on the way home from work, I suggest that you actually pay a visit to and take a look at insite before talking shit. You aren't going to find any suburb dwellers back there.
maddpiklz48 3 years ago 4
Bush vetoed this for the US. It works, it saves lives and other cities across the world are adopting this kind of programme.
People in trouble are still people, and they are worth being helped.
rrlg1 3 years ago 3
the wai i look at things is people smoke cigarettes without regard for their health.
Ultimately the drug user is destroying their health. So, instead of having them literally lick rocks off the street lookin for drugs, robbing people, etc. this place is needed.
The moral high road doesn't always work in this situation. If they close it there will just be a higher crime rate. give them their fix
i've been to the dt east side. It's one of the saddest places I have ever seen.
garycalgary 3 years ago
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Plus you can slip a little cyanide in their needles! The final solution!
depietro 3 years ago
a lot of you talk about a waste of tax fund and just need to send them to jail and all that.
b4 you go off talking shit go look at how much of your taxes it takes to house 1 inmate next to giving that 1 human a safe place to shoot up. On top of that they have help open to them when they go. Id say i am all for it and wish the U.S. was more in to helping everyone and not just the upper 50% of society. I think the fact you your government is even thinking about something like this is just great
wallmandummy 3 years ago 17
@wallmandummy
I used insight about 700X. It was in a dark time (10 months ago I quit) and now I am working part time and just got a c+ in english 12.
They saved my life by giving me medical aid and although it does in my opinion sometimes help perpetuate addiction it also helps in reducing the harm from addiction. I love the staff like family and wish them safety at the gong show insight. If anyone from insight reads this its me badger, boxing (sort of ) and weighing in a 200 lbs
planes3333 1 year ago
@wallmandummy US govt helping the top 50% of society? Surely you mean the top 0.5%
Straylight100 10 months ago
It's a really good idea to create safe injection site.
Frank332666 3 years ago 2
i think this is a great idea!people will go! and these people ARE family and friends
mercyannlee 3 years ago 2
it is very shocking to me some of the comments that have been posted regarding this issue. it is sad to think that people assume that an addict is a criminal or an otherwise 'bad' person. addicts are PEOPLE, and could be your brother, sister, mother, father, coworker, doctor, police officer...the idea of safe injection sites, protects everyone, not just the drug user. and until you walk a mile in an addicts shoes, don't judge these people.
heatherjovich 3 years ago 5
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I say let these asshole addicts die on the streets. What do I care if one of these scum-of-the-earth dies? It would be a plus if they died. Why in the hell do I have to pay for drugs? I didn't vote for this shit.
Northgrant 3 years ago
Open 18 hours a day 7 days a week, but hell your doctors is not open that long, its so unfair. Why are we looking after people who choose to do this, yet you try and make a normal doctors appointment. Why are they entitled tothis, they are already on welfare, madness, absolute madness!!!!
cyrex94 3 years ago
so why help them, i really dont understand, surely this is encouraging it and telling them come here and we will help you shoot drugs. By building the injection centre you are saying yeah come do drugs. Have these people ever been on the other side of being a victim of adrug user being raped or robbed because someone is on drugs and they are encourgaing the using, i just dont get it, makes me sick to my heart!!!! This money could be spent on finding cures!! disgraceful
cyrex94 3 years ago
People aren't going to make the decision to become an intravenus drug user because there is now a safe injection site. That's just stupid.
recapitulation 3 years ago 2
You are just stupid and it is because of idiots like you the world is upside down, there is no proof either way, so mr know it all tell me what makes them become drug users, for every arugment for there is one against, and as Northgrant says what do we care, let them die on the streets, taxes should be going towards other things - too many fools in power whose heads are in the dman clouds. Get real!!!!!
cyrex94 3 years ago
"let them die on the streets"
...wow
These people are sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, they're human beings and they're suffering hard. Have some compassion man
redskull2006 3 years ago 5
I do have compassion, but my compassion goes to victims - the brothers, sisters, parents and any innocent victim who they MIGHT rob and I use the word MIGHT - I know not all of them rob - and traumatise for money to feed their habit, so my compassion is there, just not misplaced. Assiting them is just prolonging their agony and others - thats my opinion, just because we don't have the same clear cut opinions does not mean I don't have compassion, just not the same as yours!
cyrex94 3 years ago
This is an excellent program. I hope that in the programs like this will start to be embraced in cities across the country because they're desperately needed... All you folks at Insite: keep up the great work and fight like hell for your exemption!
MikeMcg82 3 years ago 3
to all those who put down people with addiction, I hope to God that none of you ever have someone you love or are friends with or someone you know become addicted to drugs cause it's devestating and you would want them to get the help to clean up or at least stay safe while in their addiction. God Bless the homeless and the addict
elsalvsAngles 3 years ago 3
I was a user & used the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre to shoot up heroin. Through counselling at the centre I'm now on the methadone program & haven't used heroin for months. These places clean up the streets & reduce vulnerable childrens exposure to illicit drugs, give addicts safe places to shoot up & like me help people into drug maintenance programs. This is good for everyone, it saves the community money due to less health costs. I'm now working so no welfare costs, perfect!!
ozzinabout 3 years ago 7
Yeah? LETHAL INJECTION FOR THE PUSHER MAN. CHAIN GANG FOR THE CUSTOMERS. Wake up; freedom comes with responsibility toward the responsible. I am tired of wasting resources on the wasted.
grampuseelfry 4 years ago
Screw that, these people made the choice to stick a needle in their veins. What about all the hardworking single parents and working poor who struggle to make ends meet and not turn to drugs or booze because they have difficulties. These drug people should not receive any welfare payments at all, it just goes directly to the local drug dealer thus adding fuel to the fire. They will still steal and rob to feed their habit,so give the welfare to those who really need it. Not to lost causes.
noblejames111 4 years ago
I will pray for your child, and your compassion, the day they come home looking for help because one poor decision sealed them in a heroin bag.
thegirl44 4 years ago 2
Ive spent enough time around the DTES that my bleeding heart has dried up. If I had enough dough, I'd go buy them all a double!
jplisson 4 years ago
I agree!
Cant ignore the sick forever.
stv420 4 years ago 2
FUCK IT, live in england, everything is free!!!
England is very fucked up. We give money, houses and drugs to ANYONE.......
AND I MEAN ANYONE...
OUR GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE SHOT.
WE ARE HEADING FOR CIVIL WAR.
kevino18 4 years ago 3
hmm deres pros and cons.. maybe make a S.I.S legal and reserch it and see what effect on the surounding comunity it has then decide if or not 2 open more. then we can all say eaither we tryed to help them but as always thay abuse what eva help is handed to them, or we can say yes hiv/aids and infections/O.D'S are down this has worked lets do more but thay may abuse there s.i.s and think fuck it now we have a nice place to inject with all the support why shud we give it up so i really dont know
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WASTEDTV05 4 years ago
This is a good thing for the heroin abusers, but I don't know if it would be as helpful for the tweakers.
MountainDeW06 4 years ago
Also, drug users do try to get clean. Addiction is a mental and physical illness that people battle with all of there lives - even long after they have stopped using. It's a medical issue, not political or legal.
On top of that many IV drug users are mentally ill, homeless, or have suffered years of abuse. Many have been introduced to drugs by parents or other trusted guardians. Many heavy users were not given the opportunities or the chance to have a normal life.
pooteroo 4 years ago 3
Drug use is unsafe, but preventing some of the harms associated with drug use not only saves our health care system MILLIONS of dollars, It also gives people (users) another day and another chance to get clean.
I have personally experienced InSite, and I can definitively say that it is a good place and nothing but a good place. It makes a huge difference and people really do appreciate it. It's a drop in the bucket, but it's a start.
pooteroo 4 years ago 3
Yes, they should get help. Insite is part of the solution, but not the full answer. It is the Harm-reduction pillar in the four pillar approach. The other three pillars are mostly unpracticed in Vancouver. They are: Enforcement, Treatment and Education.
As for putting a drag on the health care system...Hello, alleviating that is one of the functions of Insite. (did you not pay attention to the video?)
pooteroo 4 years ago
of course this is a good idea. I hope its so successful that other cities (in the states) can use this as a guide. Jesus, they,re addicts not child molesting lepers!
terripin99 4 years ago
maybe i'm an ass, but i couldn't care less if they OD and die.
heres an idea, don't do drugs...
phatkix 4 years ago
PRICK!
ellycat 4 years ago
You are more than an ass you are a jackass. Take 1 minute out of your self congratulatory day and consider 2 poor decisions that you made and what the outcome was because it only takes 2 poor decisions to become a drug addict; obtaining the drugs and doing them one time.
thegirl44 4 years ago 4
uh oh jackass alert.
phatkix 4 years ago
i used to work for street youth job action doing needle sweeps. picking up on average of about 200-250 dirty needles DAILY thru some of the DTES back alleys. there are sharp containers stragitly placed around the area but users would just throw their needles in front of them anyways.
got47cents 4 years ago
go canucks
fishshady 5 years ago
What the don't tell you an employee was quietly let go for selling heroin and crack on the job.
What they also don't tell you is that there are only
maybe 150 people who use it and the 600 per day they claim is people going in a grabbing a coffee which is counted on the books as an injection.
jabwebcam 5 years ago
I love anybody that thinks this is an EASY issue. It's been around since the beginning of man, yet it's so easy to figure out. Dealing with people like that make drug addiction seem a viable alternative.
rrpostalagain 5 years ago
Round them all up and give them a choice, offer them help to clean up, get a job and a place to live or go to jail. This type of life should not be an option.
oilernut 5 years ago 2
Another PRICK!
ellycat 4 years ago
I'm a prick because I think they should either get help and clean up or go to jail for doing something that is illegal? Are you saying it is their right to continue to do drugs and be a drag on our health care/legal system?
oilernut 4 years ago
The law is an ass. How the hell are they hurting you by injecting drugs into their own bodies? If all drugs were legal, there would be no gangs, no killings, no robbings. Drug use should not be a
UCDEamon 4 years ago
criminal act, it does harm to noone but the user, it's the lifestyle, which is moulded around the drugs' illegality that does the damage. Heroin is an easy, cheap drug to produce, but drug cartels jack up the price 2-3 fold on each tier of distrobution in order to squeeze every last possible dime out of the addicts. if it were legal you would have a much cheaper product with guarented purity, sterility and
UCDEamon 4 years ago
known potency, most ODs are accidental due to unknown potency so legalization would save lives.
UCDEamon 4 years ago
It is hurting me because I am paying for it when the OD and end up in the hospital.
oilernut 4 years ago
I support save injection. People will do drugs no matter what. Why not have them do it in a safe, clean enviroment where AIDs will not be spread and overdoses can be prevented on site. This saves ambulance time and tax payer dollars.
Afterm4th 5 years ago
I support this. The way they've been dealing with it in the past obviously doesnt work, and it has worked well in places like Europe where they have been doing this for years. Keep it up!
allinthemind 5 years ago
WOW,THIS IS COOL.I SUPPORT
sinufed 5 years ago
I support this fully. I've supported it since day 1.
cherry251 5 years ago
Interesting idea, but seriously flawed. Wouldn't it be more sensible to just let the addicts get clean, legal pharmaceuticals instead of adulterated drugs at prices that force them to become criminals? (Yeah, it's their choice, ok, but if kicking was easy, more people would do it.)
This clip points out the absurdity of providing addicts with a clean, supervised site to inject god-only-knows-what kind of illegal crap.
motchka 5 years ago 4
Help them continue their misery yeah great idea, looks like a make work project for nurses and administrators to make more money off of the government tit. Overdose is a junkie's way of self euthanasia.
Seapaddler 5 years ago
this is an excellent idea... but maybe kind of intimidating for the drug community (cameras, mirrors, all the things that scare us!)
newparadigm 5 years ago