Overdose In Raleigh

In the United States drug overdose has begun to rise within many states. Whether or not municipalities and state government should try to control such an epidemic is in question. Some say by creating a supervised injection site where these Intravenous drug users(IDU) may go to safely conduct their self inflicting abuse and also seek rehabilitation may benefit these abusers and the society they live within. The United States government has not yet enabled one of these type of sites to establish itself in states where drugs have infested its cities and towns. Which brings me to Raleigh NC, where overdoses from drug abuse is on the rise; this problem starts the debate on whether or not Raleigh should implement a SIS to reduce the drug induced …show more content…
There's a greater hazard though, by implementing these supervised injection sites (SIS), Raleigh may face ethical, operational, and public health issues that would create an unhealthy environment for many who live there. The misconception with Raleigh's problem is that the high drug affiliated mortality rate is due to the abuse of prescription drugs, rather than from drugs that require a hypodermic needle in order to be consumed. According to a publication called Unintentional Overdose Deaths in North Carolina Medicaid Population(1) by The State Center for Health Statistics a majority of the prescription pills that are being abused are pain killers such as Hydrocodone, Alprazolam and Oxycodone. The publication also states that “Between 2000 and 2007, …show more content…
In the International Journal of Drug Policy, within a research paper called Impacts of intensified police activity on injection drug users: Evidence from an ethnographic investigation,(3) Small et al. states that “The intensification of police activities led to less drug related activity in the area where the drug market was traditionally concentrated, but widespread displacement of drug use activities to other locations also occurred. The adverse impact of concentrated police activities upon urban drug problems and the implications for both public order and public health should be recognized.” This study found that after the SIS Insite was established in Vancouver, Canada, police activity began to grow in the location of the SIS, which inadvertently propagated the relocation of drug users to the surrounding areas, where they had not inhabited

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