On a Grand Scale


Biden HHS department is about to award $30 million to non-profit groups to distribute “harm reduction” supplies, among them crack pipes.

The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for “smoking kits/supplies.” A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and “any illicit substance.”

HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores. Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of “underserved communities,” including African Americans and “LGBTQ+ persons,” as established under President Joe Biden’s executive order on “advancing racial equity.”

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Other “harm reduction” equipment that qualifies for funding include syringes, vaccinations, disease screenings, condoms, and fentanyl strips. The grant program will last three years and includes 25 awards of up to $400,000.

An HHS spokesman declined to specify what is included in the smoking kits. Similar distribution efforts provide mouthpieces to prevent glass cuts, rubber bands to prevent burns, and filters to minimize the risk of disease.


Also included in this grant program is the installation of “harm reduction” vending machines in high drug-use areas. What is such a thing, you ask?


Naturally, the Canadians are way ahead of us.

How did you do that? You conclude that I'm saying
No help
When they are PROMOTING drug use.
I'm calling it stupid.

Speaking of Stewpid:

Biden: (a week or so ago) " I've ordered 400 million masks and I'll be mailing them out to everbody real soon !!"

Governors all over the country: ( past coupla days) " Ya'll don't need to wear masks any more."

Biden: " "

 The real question is if this is even true.

 Are there actually tax-payer funded pipes in these kits?  So far some say yes and some say no.

 These types of programs do work with some people, and not for others, much like prison only stops some people or TV ads.  It is much better than pumping them full of Narcan, IV fluids and handing them a sandwich on the way out of the Hospital door then charging everyone else for their care, in my opinion.  

 This is not meant to imply that people should not get help.  It is meant to imply that both "yes" crack pipes are in the kits, and "no" crack pipes are not in the kits are both being presented as factual.  Also that humans get off drugs through multiple methods, and that overnight hospital care is not typically and only the word "typically" with the exemption of all other words, typically not effective.  But it is expensive.

Eegore wrote on 02/08/22 at 19:38:28:




How about

What you Subsidize
You get more of....?

"Now, now,, you gotta applaud his ability to drag the goal posts around."

 I am directly addressing the topic you started and provided no statement of any kind indicating what you think or believe.

 I clearly stated that it is cheaper to keep addicted humans out of hospitals.  If hospitals could deny care to addicts, then the cost would not be so high.

 If you somehow think that statement does not address the topic and is implying you think anything at all, then I didn't clearly enough indicate my point.

 Lets try again:

1:  Kits are cheaper than medical care.

2:  Emergency medical care can not be denied.

3:  No human on this forum has ever indicated medical care should be denied.

 Is that better?  Or did the goal-post move somehow?

 JoG provided that statement.  I did not provide that statement.

 When I indicate that I provide no statement, I mean me, not any other known human.  I did not provide any statement of JoG's beliefs on this matter.  I did not interpret, or say, he thinks any type of help on any type of thing for any subject should not be done.

 I stated that medical care is more expensive than kits.  Emergency medical care can not be denied.  Until emergency medical care can be denied kits and safe-use methods will remain much cheaper than hospital care.

 This does not mean any known human thinks medical care, or any thing of any kind anywhere for any human should be denied.

 This only means emergency medical care can not be denied.  Only that and nothing else.

 I'm not sure these kits will create drug users.  If pipes exist in these kits I think they will most likely just end up being cleaner hits for people who were already going to do it.

 I'd like to see some sort of standard to get supplies like this, like entering a treatment program.
 
 I'd also like to see proof pipes are in the kits.