Seattle Socialists Strangle Golden Goose

[jediuser598]

I would like to know the percentage of drug users who come in for clean needles that actually used the other services offered to get clean.

King County's program has also been successful in getting PWID off the streets and into drug treatment. In the last two years, Public Health needle exchange program placed 739 people in drug treatment.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health ... hange.aspx

[jediuser598]

King County Needle exchange also offers other services:

Downtown Needle Exchange Medical Clinic:

Walk-ins welcome!

Abscess treatment and care
HIV/hepatitis testing and counseling
Hepatitis A and B vaccinations
Colds and upper respiratory infections
TB screening
Narcan available

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health ... hange.aspx

[DBTrek]

In regards to your "solution" of letting the homeless rot, it seems like such a good idea that it'd probably work in a lot of other areas. Hospitals could boast of having healthier patients if they admitted only the physically well, and left the sick ones to die. Public schools could boast of only smart students if they didn't enroll stupid kids. There's a lot of potential in this way of dealing with problems.

Ahhhhh yes, that red-hot leftist rage when they confront the truth - their "policies" are a billion dollar fraud that fail to improve on doing nothing.

Ouch, right?

Like . . . even preschoolers could probably improve something with a billion dollars. Not progressives though. You give them a billion dollars to improve homelessness and they'll give you MORE homeless.

By the way, I didn't say let the homeless rot. Doing "nothing" would have still left emergency services and all the other pre-existing homeless services we had in place while simultaneously keeping the homeless numbers lowers and saving the city a billion bucks. How bad is a political ideology when it can't even improve on "nothing" with $1,000,000,000?

Pretty bad.

[Speaker to Animals]

Let the cities die.

We have the Internet now.

[jediuser598]

Let the cities die.

We have the Internet now.

How very Sodom and Gomorrah of you, with a splash of the modern. I like it.

[Kath]

I would like to know the percentage of drug users who come in for clean needles that actually used the other services offered to get clean.

King County's program has also been successful in getting PWID off the streets and into drug treatment. In the last two years, Public Health needle exchange program placed 739 people in drug treatment.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health ... hange.aspx

Boy, that billion dollars really went a long way to help 739 people! I could have easily helped 740 people with that amount of cash.

[jediuser598]

I would like to know the percentage of drug users who come in for clean needles that actually used the other services offered to get clean.

King County's program has also been successful in getting PWID off the streets and into drug treatment. In the last two years, Public Health needle exchange program placed 739 people in drug treatment.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health ... hange.aspx

Boy, that billion dollars really went a long way to help 739 people! I could have easily helped 740 people with that amount of cash.

Where did you guys get that figure?

I went back a bit and couldn't find it, could you cite it again for me?

[DBTrek]

Needle exchange only costs about $1.2 million a year (program only). It’s a separate disaster from the billion dollar homeless boondoggle.

[PartyOf5]

I would like to know the percentage of drug users who come in for clean needles that actually used the other services offered to get clean.

King County's program has also been successful in getting PWID off the streets and into drug treatment. In the last two years, Public Health needle exchange program placed 739 people in drug treatment.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health ... hange.aspx

739 is not a percentage. How many of them were successful? How many people do they see in 2 years? Is this 739 out of 1,000 or 739 out of 10,000?

[PartyOf5]

King County Needle exchange also offers other services:

Narcan available

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health ... hange.aspx

In addition to fresh needles you can obtain Narcan to help get yourself back from the brink of death so you can shoot up again.