Comments on: Bishop of Huron supports supervised drug consumption sites in London https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-of-huron-supports-supervised-drug-consumption-sites-in-london/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 08 Jun 2018 22:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jane Winstanley https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-of-huron-supports-supervised-drug-consumption-sites-in-london/#comment-8037 Fri, 08 Jun 2018 22:17:26 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=155675#comment-8037 Surely the SIS is a place in which to connect with addicts and begin supporting them on the road to recovery,

]]> By: Allan M. Pearson https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-of-huron-supports-supervised-drug-consumption-sites-in-london/#comment-7831 Tue, 29 May 2018 19:57:57 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=155675#comment-7831 There is no such thing as a “safe injection site” for the plain reason that these drugs the people are abusing are inherently unsafe. For anyone to pretend that using these harmful drugs can in any way be “safe” is to tell people a lie.

Rather than enabling victims of these drugs to remain victims we should be providing services in which these people will overcome their addictions.

]]> By: Don Honda https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-of-huron-supports-supervised-drug-consumption-sites-in-london/#comment-7758 Sat, 26 May 2018 02:22:28 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=155675#comment-7758 SISs are a bad idea. They perpetuate the misery of the addict by giving up on them and expect that there is no help for them except to die an eventual early death. The 100% “positive” studies for SISs are unscientific at best, self-serving at worse. They increase public overdoses, public deaths, public use, needle litter, homelessness, crime.

My arguments against SISs are in the comment section here. I also include more positive scenarios for user/addicts by experts in the field:

https://biv.com/article/2018/05/municipal-election-hopefuls-need-get-real-about-homelessness

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