I would rather the safe injection sight sell them the drugs too, than tattoo face down the street getting the money for it.
Most of what I have read claims much better results dealing with addiction the way they do Europe. A general trend of more people using the sights, can't realistically be quantified as a spike in drug use. Getting accurate counts of people using illegal drugs is not really possible.
I wonder how much less it would cost to supervise injections, than for emergency responders running ragged chasing O.D's.
I wonder how much less crime your average addict would commit, if he didn't have to get money to score more H.
I wonder how much less crime we would have, if we removed this lucrative business from the the grasps of the pants draggers.
I wonder how much less ER healthcare we would have to pay for, if they were given clean needles to minimize infections and the passing of disease.
At a wrestling tournament the other day, there were two mothers arguing over which of their kids was a bigger drug dealer, that turned physical. "Dreamers"
The tax payers already pay for a lot of peoples drugs. They either use their EBT cash, or they sell food stamps when they run out. I.E we are funding much of this gang activity through welfare programs both directly and indirectly.
I think it makes sense to put some of this money where it may do less bad. The problem is epidemic, and the solutions to the problem are unknown.
Making a safe place to inject, is not going to make new drug addicts. The people who are going to shoot up, are going to shoot up.