sheilamcclear:

Now Michael Goodwin has chimed in and OK: IT ALL NEEDS TO STOP. JUST STOP the snickering comments on the city Health Department’s flyers created to show addicts how to shoot up safely.

“We assume instructions to “Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins,” and “Find the vein be fore you try to inject” are just the first of many helpful tips from City Hall in 2010. Surely, taxpayers won’t object to the $32,000 cost, seeing it as a reward for the privilege of paying the highest taxes in America. And junkies are people, too, you know.”

Maybe harm reduction is not a familiar concept to those of you, and Rush Limbaugh, with Oxy-Vicodin pill habits (the socially acceptable opiate addiction), but these are the same people who flipped out about needle exchange programs years ago, until you could buy them without a prescription over-the-counter, as the middle-aged punk lady at the Rite Aid on First Avenue was doing the other day.

Emergency-room visits and the chronic illnesses that accompany faulty injections/infected needles is what costs TAXPAYER MONEY, way more than $32,000.

I love hearing things like this, makes me so proud to be Canadian, or from Vancouver at least.  -C