Christmas, as everyone knows, is all about indiscriminate sex with strangers and injecting oneself with soul numbing opiates; it’s what makes the season festive.
Consequently, unlike cigarette manufacturers who are compelled to print gruesome photographs illustrating the effect of their noxious merchandise, a taxpayer funded New York health clinic has adopted the strategy of immersing itself in the spirit of the season by having Santa and his elves distribute condoms and needles.
Barring an accidental overdose or exertion induced heart attack, City Wide Harm Reduction is making Christmas safe for the less than stable Christmas reveller.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
I often thought if I had the intellegence and the means, this would be the theme of my doctoral thesis. The sub-title is, “What mankind has done to improve its condition, has not done so, and most of what has been done in the aim of improving mankind’s conditions, has worsened those conditions.
This program is a perfect example, well meaning people, with good intentions, making it easier for people to continue their self-destruction, and promoting the ease for others to come along.
Dr. Terry.
What would you actually do to help an addict though?
Vincent,
This works; make sure you watch it all:
The mortality rates for heroine use are an order of magnitude higher than for HIV infection. [About 9.72 per 1000 versus 3.1 per 100,000, as a cursory view.] It’s about like making sure a diabetic doesn’t die of botulism while he or she eats nothing but ice cream.
I’m sure the people who work with addicts need all the humor they can find. But this video appears to be made for the general public and the party, upbeat mood does nothing to address the fact the people coming into the clinic are engaging in extremely risky behavior. To fail to do so seems a disservice when, according to the the Boston Globe, the average age for drug experimentation is now 13.
Good times! ‘Street’ Santa is at least preferable to Tranny Santa. But why not show us the initial addict smiling for camera while using one of the new needles to shoot up?