Fuck our government is nuts
Tax-paid crack kit
Aim is to curb spread of disease by addicts
By KATIE CHALMERS, STAFF REPORTER
Drug users looking for a better quality crack pipe might want to try the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. The WRHA is handing out kits to addicts with sores and burns on their lips in an effort to stop the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
It's hoped the kits will "reduce the physical harms that crack cocaine users suffer," said medical officer of health Dr. Margaret Fast.
The kits come complete with a glass tube pipe, matches, a pipe cleaner, screens, alcohol swabs, lip balm, gum and condoms.
Fast believes providing the kits will help develop a trust between addicts and workers with the outreach program Street Connections, who have distributed up to 100 of the packages so far. The workers would then have a chance to convince crack cocaine addicts to seek treatment.
"This is sometimes our only opportunity to actually engage in discussion with users," Fast said. "Otherwise they might never come to us. We might never come to them."
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