OB-GYN-L Messages for March, 2000: Re: Injection room news

Re: Injection room news

From: art fougner, md

evsono@pipeline.com

Wed Mar 15 10:00:00 2000

i think this would be a valid study on many levels. what would be exceedingly helpful would be follow-up data on the users, which i have the feeling would not or could not be obtained. what i do know is that we have had many "war(s) on drugs" in the usa and drugs have won every one. as long as we continue to use the criminal model rather than the addiction model, this will be the case. here's a thought - there are two commonly inhaled drugs. one causes multiple carcinomas as well as heart and lung disease, not to mention contributes to the incidence of prematurity and IUGR. the other has been helpful in alleviating nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and can lower intra-ocular pressure associated with glaucoma. one is legal - the other is illegal. you be the judge.

of course, that's just my opinion. i could be wrong.

Art

At Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Carlos Roure MD wrote: >
>Just published as"news" in the BMJ is something very interesting and
>controversial. Just the first few paragraphs.
>
>The first medically supervised injecting room for heroin users will
>open in Sydney in May 2000 despite last week's condemnation by
>the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board and
>opposition from John Howard, the Australian prime minister.
>
>The supervised facility will have 10 bays in which users can inject,
>supervised by two health
>professionals, and clients will be offered supportive counselling and
>primary health care.
>
>The UN is so opposed to the development that it is sending a delegation
>to Australia this month to try to
>stop it.
>
>The centre, based in the inner city district of Kings Cross, will be
>managed by the United Church Board
>for Social Responsibility, an Anglican organisation that supports local
>community projects. The Vatican
>has banned all Catholic groups from supporting the trial.
>
>The initiative, which follows the success of similar "safe injecting
>rooms" in Rotterdam and Zurich, will
>run for an 18 month trial period, during which its possible role in
>minimising harm to drug users will be
>evaluated. The evaluation will be conducted by several research bodies,
>including the National Centre in
>HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the Institute of Criminology.
>
>With the same puritanical and hippocritical view, my own church (the
>catholico one) will forbid any catholic (except me) from participating
>in this pilot plan just the same way it prohibits safe sex among
>unmarried people, the free distribution of condoms in schools, the
>"abortion" pill under medical care, free distribution of clean syringes
>at shooting galleries as all of this *promotes* those activities.
>Closing our eyes does not.
>
>Hurrah for those brave people who are attempting to find not a solution,
>but an improvement without closed eyes.
>
>Carlos

-- art fougner, md

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