Heroin For Dummies

[Dan05979]

Here's the latest smack on taxpayers.

 

The city spent $32,000 on 70,000 fliers that tell you how to shoot heroin, complete with detailed tips on prepping the dope and injecting it into your arm.

 

The Health Department handout has outraged New York's top drug prosecutors and abuse experts.

 

"It's basically step-by- step instruction on how to inject a poison," said John Gilbride, who heads the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York office.

 

"It's sick," said City Council member Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens)

 

"Foolish," said Columbia University drug researcher and treatment expert Dr. Herbert Kleber.

 

The 16-page pamphlet features seven comics-like illustrations and offers dope fiends such useful advice as "Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins," and "Find the vein before you try to inject."

 

It even encourages addicts to keep jabbing if their needles miss the mark.

 

"If you don't 'register,' pull out and try again," it says.

 

The brochure sends the wrong message about the dangers of the drug, experts said.

 

"It concerns me that the city would produce a how-to on using drugs," Gilbride said. "Heroin is extremely potent. You may only get the chance to use it once. To suggest there is a method of using that alleviates the dangers, that's very disturbing."

 

Vallone, who chairs the council's public safety committee, vowed to shut down the distribution of the pamphlet.

 

"This is a tremendous misuse of city funds, and I'm going to see what I can do to stop it. It sends a message to our youth: give it a try," he fumed.

 

Gilbride and city drug czar Bridget Brennan noted that the manual does have some sound advice. It stresses the importance of kicking the habit, seeking professional help and not sharing needles.

 

But it also spells out how junkies should ready their fix and the best ways to shoot it -- a bad idea when more New York teens than ever are trying heroin, they said.

 

"What we do not want to do is suggest that there's anything safe about shooting up narcotics," said Brennan, the city's special narcotics prosecutor. "No matter how many times you wash your hands or how clean the needle is, it's still poison that you're putting in your veins."

 

The guidebook, called "Take Charge, Take Care," has sections on overdosing, testing for HIV and hepatitis -- and how to "prepare drugs carefully" and "how to take care of your veins."

 

Kleber, a psychiatry professor, said the brochure could help save lives but that it was "foolish" for the city to include tips on how to shoot up.

 

The Health Department defended its brochure, saying it was helpful and necessary, and has been distributed only to addicts or those at risk of becoming abusers.

 

"Our goal is to promote health and save lives with this information," said Daliah Heller, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment.

 

Asked why the handout tells people how to shoot up, Heller said, "From a health perspective, there is a less harmful way to inject yourself."

 

The flier fails to identify the city agency as its creator and distributor, and mentions only a group called LifeNet and the city's 311 help line as call-in resources to addicts.

 

LifeNet is run by the nonprofit Mental Health Association of New York City, which is heavily funded by the city.

 

"It's certainly not ours," said association spokeswoman Beth Garcia.

 

Additional reporting by Melissa Klein

 

 

 

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[Dan05979]

-UNBELIEVABLE-

[Joe]

You gotta be ******* kidding me.

[INDman]

-UNBELIEVABLE-

 

No I believe it. I mean this is New York City we're talking about.

[SubwayGuy]

Eh let em encourage it. Just as long as it comes with a disclaimer saying that anyone who dies as a result of drug overdose who has ever read this poster therefore waives the right to sue anyone ever over their death.

 

Besides, if they die, I don't have to subsidize them anymore.

[INDman]

Eh let em encourage it. Just as long as it comes with a disclaimer saying that anyone who dies as a result of drug overdose who has ever read this poster therefore waives the right to sue anyone ever over their death.

 

Besides, if they die, I don't have to subsidize them anymore.

 

Well the whole idea of the thing was so that they would know how to shoot up and reduce infections. I am against that, I am all for junkies getting infections and dying off.

[SubwayGuy]

Well the whole idea of the thing was so that they would know how to shoot up and reduce infections. I am against that, I am all for junkies getting infections and dying off.

 

Yes I do agree it would have been an improvement had the poster said the only way to inject heroin properly is through the eye with one needle and through the aorta with another...(and of course still included the legal disclaimer in my last post )

[Cross Harbor RR]

No I believe it. I mean this is New York City we're talking about.

 

Yea, I understand if this was the 70's, but come on, what the **** does Bloomberg think of this?

[Joe]

Yea, I understand if this was the 70's, but come on, what the **** does Bloomberg think of this?

 

Seeing as Bloomturd is a mope, he loves this idea.

[Cross Harbor RR]

Seeing as Bloomturd is a mope, he loves this idea.

 

Probably an Ex: junkie back in his day.

[metsfan]

Is there one for making a 12-9, especially for whomever created & approved this poster?

 

- A

[Dan05979]

I think some sort of drug help centers, they give you clean needles so you dont share and pass along diseases and shit.

But the next pamphlet will be where you can score some good shit from "flaco" up in the bronx

[INDman]

I think some sort of drug help centers, they give you clean needles so you dont share and pass along diseases and shit.

But the next pamphlet will be where you can score some good shit from "flaco" up in the bronx

 

Oh you joke about it, but I'm sure there working on it.

[R33WF]

WOW this is easy as 1 2 3 4 B)

[Urbanfortitude]

So now we're teaching people to be efficient drug addicts? B) Excuse me....

 

*goes into soundproof room and screams using explicit vulgar language*

[Sea Beach]

This is a disgrace,whoever did this should get in trouble and be ashamed of themselves.

[SoSpectacular]

I just see this as a...

 

"Here's a way to die faster but without some of the suffering from the ill-effects of using needles. We figured, It's your life right? We'll let you live it the way YOU want to! Just being helpful!"

[mediccjh]

Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters

[Rutgers Tube]

It really upsets me when I work in a playground adjacent to a P.S. and I see a needle or pipe on the ground mere feet from play equipment. I suppose this "Public Service Announcement" will be hung next to the "Playground Safety Rules" sign before long. The only real merit I see in this is that the government has finally conceded defeat in their quest to confiscate every trace of every illicit substance and to try to nab every pusher and user and is now attempting to derive some sanitation out of insanity.

 

Effing sad. B)

[DevilBus65]

Kinda makes me want to get high. Damn bad influences.

[St Louis Car 09]

 

You gotta be ******* kidding me.

LOOK out my friends....The 80`s are coming back!!!

[KeystoneRegional]

Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters

[rr4567]

Ah, more job security for people like me.

 

I love the "How to 12-9 Yourself" poster.

 

 

Keep in mind folks, I'm a paramedic, so I have a very warped sense of humour.

Thanks, but now someone removed it. Was it offensive? B)

 

It really upsets me when I work in a playground adjacent to a P.S. and I see a needle or pipe on the ground mere feet from play equipment. I suppose this "Public Service Announcement" will be hung next to the "Playground Safety Rules" sign before long. The only real merit I see in this is that the government has finally conceded defeat in their quest to confiscate every trace of every illicit substance and to try to nab every pusher and user and is now attempting to derive some sanitation out of insanity.

 

Effing sad.

Hey Kids! Do drugs the SAFE Way!

 

 

What the hell is wrong with New York State? Teaching people how to use heroin with TaxPayer money? This is pathetic, absolutely pathetic! Use your money on other stuff like preventing people from doing these stuff and give the the rest! This is why NYS is running out of money, useless stuff!

Well, NYC has always acted retarded with our $$$

[Novabus 5000]

No comment.:confused::eek:

[SoSpectacular]

Well, think of this as a chance to rethink one's current actions. Instead of trying to combat the issue, why not play along? Because you're still going to die younger than most eventually. The pamphlet is there to guide you to being a better heroine "shooter". If you're seriously going to follow that then yeah, it's whatever.

 

It's not supposed to make you want to start shooting up heroine or any other drugs... Because I'm not convinced. The dangers of doing drugs already scares me.