Homemade Meth Pipes, The Feds Put Out The Flames On Social Media: When it comes to providing safer pipes for smoking crack or meth. The Biden administration claims that a government grant programme to do so will not cover the costs.
Homemade Meth Pipes, The Feds Put Out The Flames On Social Media
Incident
By saying Wednesday that a grant programme intended to counter. The harm caused by illegal drugs will not pay for safer pipes for smoking crack or meth. The Biden administration put out a fire under a social media firestorm.
Outrage from the political right. Some with racial overtones, was cresting online. And the White House was put on the defensive.
To put pipes in “safe smoking kits,” “no federal funding will be used directly. Either through subsequent reimbursement of grantees.
Inaccuracy
“Inaccurate reporting” is to blame for the White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s statement. That the administration had no intention of paying for drug pipes.
Prior to Monday, service organisations and local governments could apply for a share of $30 million in federal funding. To “harm reduction” efforts for preventing disease, injury, and other collateral trauma for drug users.
Therefore one of the most contentious aspects of harm reduction is the idea of allowing drug users. Hence to inject and monitor for overdoses in the same place.
However, public health advocates argue that the pragmatic approach is the best way. To keep bad situations from getting worse rather than encouraging drug use.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration originally requested funding proposals listing “safe smoking kits/supplies”. As one of the possible purchases that taxpayer money could use for.
A dozen categories included overdose prevention drugs, medication lockboxes, test kits for infectious diseases, and syringe disposal containers, among other things.
Pipes are not specifically mention in the grant application, but they can includw in a safe smoking kit.
In the US, only a handful of programmes have distributed free smoke-free kits, according to Daniel Raymond, the group’s director of policy.
Hence many conservative commentators and Republican politicians spread false information about the HHS programme in memes and tweets that quickly gained tens of thousands of followers on Wednesday morning.
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