New York City makes handbook on how to use heroin

Chris Spags Founder and Editor

A lot of cities are taking a different approach to drug use in their areas, trying to teach responsible usage instead of attempting to prevent people from doing drugs since, in some parts of the populous, it’s impossible to get them to stop. One such example can be found in New York City where you can get a guidebook on how to use heroin with the power of responsibility. Like a junkie version of Spiderman.

A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users is offering information on how to prepare drugs carefully and how to care for veins to avoid infection.

But the state’s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration called it a “step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison.”

The 16-page pamphlet features helpful tips for dopeheads like: “Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins,” and “find your vein before you try to inject.”

Assistant Commissioner Daliah Heller says instructions on how to perform injections were included because there is “a less harmful way to inject.”

According to a source, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene printed about 70,000 copies of the pamphlet, costing NYC residents approximately $32,000. While that should theoretically cost the city less than the treatment of impoverished drug users, it should come as no surprise that certain anti-drug groups are outraged.

Drugs are always a big problem in major cities, particularly amongst the lower income portions of society. One needn’t look further than how easy it is to get a homeless man to pleasure you to get a crack rock for proof. Seriously, try it. You don’t even have to ask, they’ll just offer it up. And then, if you’re particularly crafty, you don’t even have to give them the drugs thus nor perpetuating their addiction. So everybody wins! Say what you will about the ethics I propose, but that sounds way easier to accomplish than getting a homeless guy or gal, who’s totally stoned and drunk out of his or her mind, to read a 16-page pamphlet, doesn’t it?

[NBC New York]

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