Saskatoon contractor Ralph Worel tells us about how he’s finding up to 400 needles a day on the job. He says they’re putting him and his co-workers in danger and it’s a problem that needs to change.
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Saskatoon contractor Ralph Worel tells us about how he’s finding up to 400 needles a day on the job. He says they’re putting him and his co-workers in danger and it’s a problem that needs to change.
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Well i feel for you and your co-workers Ralph, but let me tell you something, THE HOOKERS, PIMPS, THIEVES, CRIMINALS, DRUG ADDICTS, ALCOHOLICS AND EVERY PERSON OF COLOR HAS MORE RIGHTS THAN YOU AND YOUR TAX PAYING WORKERS. PLEASE GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD.
This can’t be true. As I understand it you have to return a needle to get a new one. How could this possibly be??
Wowzers, 700 needles in one house, unheard of !
large drug trade in Stoon by the sounds of it. What drug exactly r they shooting up ?
Must keep the cops , courts,lawyers and jails employed full time. It’s an industry, maybe the best business in Stoon. ‘Think million’s of dollars’
Set aside for a moment the dangers a drug addicted class poses for the non addicted. The do-gooder is essentially saying to the needle addicted individual: you friend are an irredeemable worthless waste of skin; have another free needle to further confirm my opinion of you.
Collect all the needles and send them to the soft on crime hug a thug lieberal and dipper reps in you area. The free needle thing is their idea. Send them an invoice for the labor involved for the collection of the needles as well.
While I cannot comment on the Saskatoon situation, here in Woodstock Ontario a ‘methadone clinic’ is located on Dundas Street (our main street) and is having a detrimental effect on retail businesses in the proximity of the clinic.
I am not making judgment on the efficacy or worthiness of the clinic, but the location of the clinic is demonstrably not suitable.
I have moments ago prodded the newly elected Woodstock Mayor and City Council ( via email) to act now to stem the flow of retail store closings in the area.
The perils of “free” needles, eh?
Obviously we just need more advertisements encouraging people to recycle. I swear, you people overreact at the slightest provocation …
Doug says “Must keep the cops , courts,lawyers and jails employed full time. It’s an industry, maybe the best business in Stoon.”
I believe the cops, courts,lawyers are really busy. The Jails only busy part is to keep oiling the turnstiles as these guys don’t spend much time in the brink because of our broken penal system.
…we just need more advertisements encouraging people to recycle…
Posted by: Alex at April 17, 2011 11:05 AM
Sorry alex. As much as it might be a wonderful idea, recycling addicts is still against the law…
Do you think war on drugs is lost
* Yes
o No
Joe, what area of Dundas St. is it located?
East-end, West-end or downtown core?
Methadone clinic is in the Downtown core, and many facial bejeweled young adults are the customers of the clinic.
A firefighter I know is qiute nervous about going into some houses. His worry is crawling through this shite to look for people inside. He said he has been in places the entire floor is covered in needles. Save the basement seems like a good idea.
As a ‘veteran’ of the drug wars out here in Vancouver, remember … if you possibly object to the official drug policy then you are a “narrow minded, ignoramus who isn’t aware of all the ‘research’ that supports this ‘caring’ initiative.”
The only way to stop this nonsense to prevent it coming to your community in the first place.
“…finding up to 400 needles a day on the job. ”
Who’s surprised? “HR ” is an outgrowth of the radical agenda, the main goal of which is to destroy present society, on whose ashes radicals will build a ” new “and ” just ” society.
The inhumanity of HR is not a bug, but a feature.
“Who’s surprised?”
Me. If just one contractor is finding 400 needles per day, and there are 10,000 contractors in the Saskatoon area, then there must be 4,000,000 drugs users in Saskatoon! Maybe even 8,000,000, if we count the ones who properly dispose of their needles! And if we count the ones who inhale their drugs instead of injecting them, why, there could easily be 16 MILLION drug users in Saskatoon alone! I had no idea this was such a massive problem!
Where is PETA?? Animals get infected by getting needles in their paws/hooves etc. Most of the elitist set don’t care about pipples but they do care about their four legged friends.
Here in Whitehorse the drug van delivers pampers and some food along with fresh needles. The exchange of all three is a non issue for obvious reasons and all three end up on the streets in one shape and form or another. Diabetics are not eligible for the clean needle exchange.
How wrong could any program possibly be? – and all on the taxpayers dime!
Diabetics like myself pay for our needles and deposit them in a sharps container that is recycled through the pharmacy. the recycling program is free and when the container is full I grab it when I get my prescription and exchange it.
the progressives and the people that they coddle do not clean up behind themselves, but the rest of us are expected to clean up for them.
Junkies only use clean needles at needle exchanges during the nine to five hours, after that they share with complete abandonment. Expecting someone addicted to drugs to worry about their health is assinine but atypical of the “Harm reduction crowd”.
Rise up?
Alex is doing his special math again…maybe we could model a needle clean-up program on Sarcan.
HEY ALEX YOU WING NUT, THE SASKATOON HEALTH REGION GIVES AWAY MORE THAN 1 MILLION NEEDLES A YEAR. WHAT A LOSER YOU ARE
why should taxpayers give a rats ass if people inject posion into there veins, there are plenty of good programs to help people get straight, not taking advantage of them is a decision the addict makes and he can live and die with his decision, IT’S A FREE COUNTRY, BUT FREEDOME ONLY GOES SO FAR
Harm Reducttion like everything else has it’s pros and cons. I only know that five years ago I was a IV Meth user everyday all day. Not knowing it was harm reduction , I used to go to a place and get free needles every week.This kept me from shareing needles and the people I used with from having to share.This kept me healthy hiv free untill I made the dession to quit. Now I’m a drug counselor and on my way to a more fullfilling life. Who knows where I would be if it were not for Harm Reduction.When you think about Harm Reduction , think about what if it was your son/daughter, would’nt you want them to be able to have another chance? ,
Addicts put them in playgrounds. Its why there taking away the sand. Thats how much your druggie cares about anyone else.
Its particularly pernicious when some have AIDS & know it.
They purposefully put them there to share the misery of sickness to cause harm to children.
These are not people who care & share.
JMO
Long article in today’s Toronto Star about a study in Lancet that “proves” safe-injection sites are saving lives, lowering crime rates, etc etc.
Until you reach the next-to-last paragraph, in which one lonely naysayer points out that said study is purely “observational” and therefore not reliable. Rendering the previous laudatory paragraphs completely moot.