SAFE INJECTING ROOMS

Safe Injecting Rooms

Safe injecting rooms encourage illegal drug

In the present days, the usage of drugs has reached heights and people of all ages are getting involved in the consumption of one or the other intoxicants. Through, there are various legal, ethical and moral issues involved with the utilization of drugs; the topic still remains debatable and controversial. This paper discusses the consumption of illegal drugs which is facilitated by the introduction of the safe injecting rooms. It will analyze the prevailing issue with respect to the modern thoughts and views on the subject.

Illegal drugs

The Illegal drugs refer to the drugs that are prohibited and banned by the government and are considered to be illegal in various conditions. Any chemical that affects the human body is known as the drug and a psychoactive drug affects brain, which is the major part of the human body. However, there are some controlled drugs, known as the prescription; their consumption is permitted if the individual has obtained the doctors' permission in the form of prescription. On the other hand, there are numerous other drugs which are declared as illegal i.e. the user is not allowed to consume them. This category includes the drugs like nicotine (tobacco), Alcohol, aspirin, caffeine (coffee), and paracetamol/acetaminophen (Tylenol) and other such drugs.

Injecting Rooms

The concept of supervised injection sites designates areas where the injection of illegal drugs is authorized and is supervised by medical staff. The sale and exchange of drugs are not permitted in these services. The concept of allowing supervised injection site refers to a control input of people who use drugs, and injections, and educates them in the distribution of safe injection of sterile injecting equipment and medical intervention overdose. There are many medically supervised injecting rooms that have adopted the form of more accepted and established source of handling the use of street drugs. These rooms are generally managed by the welfare workers and registered nurses, who work to facilitate the users with a safe and clean environment for the users to inject. These rooms are intended to lessen the occurrence of drug-consumption in the community places, minimize the threats of discarded syringes, decrease deaths resulting from overdose, and curtail the virus transmission such as HIV and hepatitis C. these safe injecting rooms also facilitate the drug users with easy access to the counseling and health services.

SIF offers a range of services including access to the variably sterile injecting equipment, services, basic health, counseling and medical referral, social services, treatment of addiction, and training services job placement. These are often the providers of integrated health services, substance abuse treatment or services for homeless people. They are operated by the staff of social workers and community nurses or doctors, but also promote the hiring of users and former drug users. The safe injecting facilities have also developed in European cities before being implanted in Australia and Canada. The supervised injection sites (SIS) are also generally referred to as the safe injection sites, supervised ...