By Erin Durkin
A Brooklyn City Council candidate slammed the body for voting to study setting up sites for drug addicts to shoot up safely.
The Council approved $100,000 in September for a Health Department
study on whether New York should open supervised injection facilities,
which are spots for users to inject drugs under medical supervision to
avoid overdoses and spreading disease.
“Basically it’s a taxpayer-funded shooting gallery for heroin junkies
to allow them to legally shoot up in neighborhoods,” Bob Capano, a
Republican who plans to run for a Bay Ridge Council seat that will be
open next year, said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show. “Call
me crazy, but any funds spent on this issue should be focused on
breaking the addict’s dependency on drugs, not taking a step that
basically decriminalizes the use of heroin.”
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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