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I get high with a little help from my friends! Okay, I am going to make some assumption of my opponent’s argument. I may get some wrong but I will we could just void the ones that are not related. I Just figure I would try some mind reading on this one. You know something special. ;) -It’s drug users fault because they choose to do, drugs! So the should pay or get like punished and stuff. -Aren’t these facilities going to increase or encourage people to do more drugs? There are so stupid. Duh! -They should like go to jail for using drugs because it’s like bad and stuff. -Drugs are bad Mmmkay! You shouldn’t do drugs because then you are like bad. Mmmkay. Drugs are bad. I get by with a little help from my friends! ;) So the main purpose of these types of programs that we have in Canada are harm reduction plans: Dirty shared needles are the most prominent cause of spreading HIV and hepatitis C, and a plethora of other diseases, in developed countries. The more people who have HIV or AIDS the faster it spreads throughout the general population, claiming many victims of users and non-users who come in contact with them. The primary function of such faculties is really to give out clean needles. The idea is simple and moral, such types of drug addictions are so strong anyways, that at that point of addiction they are going to do it anyways. The needles are relatively cheap especially compared to the amount of lives saved. We have free health care system and it would cost way more money and stress on the healthcare system having to treat that much more people for with HIV and AID for a very long time of their lives.( Canada) One thing to remember is that we don’t have the strict war on drugs going on here, where you get lock up for weed or something. Nobody in who is fully educated on the effects and consequences that happen of such drug use would put themselves in a position people often end up in. They are usually people or street kids who come from uneducated and poverty stricken families who just don’t know any better. The number one predictor is education of the parents and social economic status of the parents. These facilities set up systems with the addicted users in which they participate in a weaning process where they are monitored and slowly weaned off the drugs. With each succession they move up a floor to a lighter section and then to detox to try and cure the problem once and for all. Going to try with a little help with my friends! How most drugs addiction work: Well there are two main sets of neurotransmitters that most of these kind of drugs work on, that is dopamine and endorphins. These brain chemicals are there for natural reasons to make us attracted to things that help us survive and reproduce. They are those that tell you that you like something. These drugs by pass you reasoning system and rewire you neural pathways in a way that causes your mind and body to think that the drug is the thing you must have. Many experiments with rats show that when given an opportunity to press a lever to receive such reward they will do it till they die. Many victims are people who over estimate there free will and think that it won’t happen to them but it almost always does. And there is on much they can do about it without help once they are hooked. I hope this is cut and dry and I will leave some facts about addiction. Myths & Facts Myth: Addiction is self-inflicted. Fact: Addiction is an illness. Just as a person doesn’t choose to have asthma or cancer, neither does a person choose to have an addiction. Myth: People can stop using drugs if they really want to. Fact: It is hard for injection drug users to stop using drugs without help. Drug use can change a person’s brain function making it very difficult to quit without effective treatment. A person who suffers from addiction is often perceived by others as different and as having a weakness or character flaw. Discrimination against people with addictions restricts their access to education, housing, employment, financial assistance and health care. Addiction is a chronic, relapsing illness. It is defined as a compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance. I think this is just a matter of education. AIDs, death and drug addiction is not Cool!! Vote FOOL!! http://supervisedinjection.vch.ca...