Biden administration to use $30 million to fund programs to hand out crack pipes

[Sex Luthor]

NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is reportedly seeking to give grants to programs that hand out crack pipes to drug addicts as part of a program to keep drug users safe. The idea is to limit infections among drug users.

A $30 million Biden administration grant program includes money for non-profit groups to purchase 'safe smoking kits/supplies according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon.

The pipes would also hopefully convince people to smoke instead of injecting drugs because injections are reportedly riskier.

San Francisco and Seattle have tried crack pipe kit distribution programs.

News of the pipe program came the same day that the Justice Department signaled that it might be willing to allow safe injection sites for people to use heroin and other drugs.

The first officially authorized safe injection sites opened in New York City in November.

The two facilities — which the city calls "overdose prevention centers" — provide a monitored place for drug users to partake, with staffers and supplies on hand to reverse overdoses.

Advocates have hailed them as a way to curb the scourge of overdose deaths.

The New York City sites so far have intervened in more than 125 overdoses among more than 640 users, many of whom have made multiple visits, according to OnPoint NYC, the organization running them.

Biden administration to fund programs to hand out crack pipes

 

[Savvir]

if the data shows it helps the situation... im all for it

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Seattle gives out bubbles , pipes,needles and hammers.
Fentanyl test kits and narcan

 

[richaveli83]

 

[BlackBall]

Next to none of that money is going to any “program”

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Next to none of that money is going to any “program”

Yeah like if they have studies that this is safer for addicts then okay cool, but is there any efforts/funding/plans to help resolve the addiction?

 

[Da King]

$30 mil for crack pipes but ask for a penny in reparations and suddenly the government is broke again

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

It's crazy how easy it is to spread outright fukking lies.

 

[filial_piety]

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

OP just posting right messaging. I wonder why

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

This is bullshyt.

What's the point of misleading on something like this?

SAMHSA Announces Unprecedented $30 Million Harm Reduction Grant Funding Opportunity to Help Address the Nation’s Substance Use and Overdose Epidemic

SAMHSA Announces Unprecedented $30 Million Harm Reduction Grant Funding Opportunity to Help Address the Nation’s Substance Use and Overdose Epidemic

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is now accepting applications for the first-ever SAMHSA Harm Reduction grant program and expects to issue $30 million in grant awards. This funding, authorized by the American Rescue Plan, will help increase access to a range of community harm reduction services and support harm reduction service providers as they work to help prevent overdose deaths and reduce health risks often associated with drug use. SAMHSA will accept applications from State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, Tribal organizations, non-profit community-based organizations, and primary and behavioral health organizations.

With overdose deaths exceeding 100,000 over a 12-month period for the first time, this funding opportunity will provide support to those working in their communities to reduce the harms of drug use. Providing funding and support for innovative harm reduction services is in line with the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing efforts to address the overdose epidemic, and is a key pillar for the first time in the multi-faceted Health and Human Services’ overdose prevention strategy announced in October. This funding allows organizations to expand their community-based overdose prevention programs in a variety of ways, including distributing overdose-reversal medications and fentanyl test strips, providing overdose education and counseling, and managing or expanding syringe services programs, which help control the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis C.

“The reality is, evidence-based harm reduction services are out of reach for far too many people,” said National Drug Control Policy Director Dr. Rahul Gupta, who also announced a new model law to help states ensure access to safe, effective, and cost-saving syringe services programs. “Building on the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to expand evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery support services, this historic funding will help make harm reduction services more accessible, so we can meet people where they are and save lives.”

“Too many Americans, more than 100,000 people over the last year, have lost their lives to drug overdose. Our new HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy is clear – harm reduction services are critical to keeping people who use drugs alive and as healthy as possible,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Americans deserve health services that address the full range of drug use and addiction issues, and this funding will help provide those services in the neighborhoods in which they live.”

“Innovative harm reduction services will help keep Americans alive,” said Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D., the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and the leader of SAMHSA. “Thanks to this American Rescue Plan funding, harm reduction service providers in historically under-resourced communities will receive long-awaited support to help stem the disproportionate number of overdose deaths and related health issues facing those communities.”

SAMHSA will distribute $10 million per year over the next three years. Grant recipients must use the funds to support harm reduction services. Harm reduction service providers will be asked to develop or expand evidence-based services that may include, but not be limited to: the provision of sterile syringes, safe sex kits, prevention education about synthetic opioids and other substances, overdose prevention kits including naloxone distribution, peer worker engagement, medical services, case management and referral to treatment. Warm handoffs that facilitate engagement in care and referrals to treatment for individuals seeking these support services are also critical components of this grant program. Harm reduction services will be trauma-informed and guided by harm reduction stakeholder groups and other community members.


https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy22-harm-reduction-nofo.pdf

This is the site that "legitimate" news sites are quoting.

Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance 'Racial Equity' - Washington Free Beacon

Look at the loaded language in the headline.

It's an extreme-right website with a history of spreading conspiracy and misinformation.

 

[ORDER_66]

His son's probably behind this

but on a serious note this is what y'all voted for

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

This is bullshyt.

Lot of these dudes are suspect as fukk

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Why is OP posting shyt from a right wing tabloid publication? You gonna post shyt from Ben Shapiro next @Sex Luthor

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

$30 million for cracks pipes, but nothing for reparations or student loan forgiveness