17 March 2006

Junkies Not Good Recylcers

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The CT has this story about nearly 5000 syringes being dumped in recycling bins across Canberra, putting the people who do the sorting of recyclables at risk.

Add to this the 3401 syringes that were were dumped in public places, and I get the distinct impression that Canberra’s junkies aren’t signing up to Canberras No Waste by 2010 drive.

PS if you ever find a syringe you can call the SHARPS Hotline on 132281

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seepi, funny thing was, I was a year ahead of her at the same school and to my knowledge, not one person in my year hit the “hard stuff”.

I won’t name the school sorry.

Geez – what school did your sister go to?
It is a nightmare I know – I wish I didn’t. Hardest for the parents to deal with I think.
I rang the police to tell them about staff at a takeawy at Dickson dealing hard drugs and they realy weren’t interested at all. I laugh when I see Audrey Fagan promoting that police dob-in line. What sort of crimes are they after if hard drugs aren’t worth their while?

A perfect example is the Mental Health Crisis Team who deal over and over again with junkies who have taken a cocktail of drugs to write themselves off and end up in a drug induced psychotic episode while people who genuinely need help are made to wait.

DVD, I know all too well that scenario.

That’s why there’s no room in 2N or PSU.

My sister, whom I don’t talk to, is a junkie, so is my uncle. My sister’s ex is a junkie, their son has difficulties most likely due to the fact that she still took heroin for 5 months and methadone for 4 months whilst pregnant. Her current BF is schizophrenic and still uses marijuana.

To “supplement” their habit, they regularly broke into ACT homes. Their fingerprints are on record with the cops, but they’ve never been charged – I even offered to sign a stat dec informing them of my sister “bragging” to me of her “job” as a lookout etc, hence reason one why I don’t like ACT coppers.

They both leech of the Govt. She is 28 and has never had a job. He’s 37 and has never had a job – guess what they collect?

She still uses, according to mum it’s just marijuana but I doubt it.

She is also an inch away from eviction, which screws my mother as she lives there too.

A good junkie is a dead junkie. I’m sorry if people are offended by my comments but enough’s enough. Why should we pander to these low lifes when there are people out there who actually need help?

Out of my sisters Yr 10 class – 50% were on drugs by Yr 12. Three years later 25% were dead.

Junkie’s don’t want help, they want drugs and don’t care who they hurt to get them.

FYI, you know it’s bad when your uncle hides his “stash” of heroin from the coppers by hiding it in his son’s nappy….

No sympathy at all.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

That’s exactly how I view them. Oxygen theifs and leeches sucking up anything they can for their own benefit.

If the money and resources that was put into the services that spend most of their time on no hope losers who are using and abusing the system then people who deserve treatment would actually get it.

A perfect example is the Mental Health Crisis Team who deal over and over again with junkies who have taken a cocktail of drugs to write themselves off and end up in a drug induced psychotic episode while people who genuinely need help are made to wait.

Good to see you know the value of human life. Just because they have a substance abuse problem doesnt mean we should write them off as a complete waste of human life.

Don’t get me wrong, its not like I support this by any means, I just don’t think its fair to write them off as a waste of space.

normal people with problems and drug fucked junkies couldn’t be further apart. a normal person with a problem is still a human being with emotions and a half normal lifestyle and existence. Junkies are exactly that, parasites. Not worth a pinch of goat shit.

They are still people…You make them sound like they are some parasite. They are normal people, with a problem.

FEw issues here. Unfortunately junkies do manage to interact with the rest of us, so it is preferable if they don’t have extra diseases that they (and we) don’t want. Not to mention the medical costs of treating them. The more removed from society they become the more feral, and the more likely to attack / abuse you in the bus interchange.
It is actually in all our interests to try to keep them healthy, and in touch with rehab options, even if you despise every one of them.

As for all the false logical causal links and premises in DVD’s argument – I disagree with everything DVD said.

Vic Bitterman8:59 pm 17 Mar 06

I agree with everything DVD said.

Stanhope and his fellow do gooders could throw new needles from their never ending bucket of hugs and cuddles high in the sky and there would still be masses of Hep A,B,C HIV+ junkies living out their pathetic lives at the flats and in the interchange.

Shut the Drug Referral Information Centre in the city interchange for a start, leave the junkies to re use their needles in the flats and with any luck by 2010 they will have self imploded and killed each other off.

There would be less to spend on digital TV’S for the masses, then Stanhope could put that money to REALLY good use and fill his new ‘prison’ with plasma’s and XBOX 360’s ! hooray !

barking toad1:23 pm 17 Mar 06

Nice in theory swaggie but they couldn’t give a fugg about the old needle once the shot’s in

“err, sorry I haven’t got me old one on me. I safely disposed of it one of those bins designed specifically for the purpose – now just give me a new one!”

Just don’t hand any out. Let ’em use a hollowed out pointy stick. And spread disease amongst themselves rather than leave discarded needles everywhere.

Is there any reason the needle exchange can’t be made to operate as a needle exchange instead of a give away shop? I don’t know who works there but how difrficult can it be to say to the junkies “give us your old needle and you can have a new one”. End of story.

newsflash – tonight on the bleeding obvious – junkies dont care about anything except themselves.

sigh … injecting room… sigh

Pragmatism over principle.

would you rather them spreading disease re-using needles that haven’t come from the government?

How about identifying these folk when then targeting them for rehabilitation of some sort. I for one don’t like the idea that the govt knows people who are breaking the law and does nothing about it.

Maybe they need to exchange a digital TV for the needles?

Kill two social policy objectives with one waste of taxpayers money?

This why the Needle Exchanges should be operating as a “needle exchange service”! Bring in your used needles and exchange them the same number of new needles.

But then no doubt some do-gooders will say this is an invasion of druggies rights!

Wasn’t the needle exchange concept supposed to reduce this?

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