Thomas Farley Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Thomas Farley We have n’t seen a public health emergency like this in the last century, it’s time for us to rethink our assumptions, and consider options we had n’t seen before. Unlike similar efforts by other cities, the injection sites would not need City Council approval because they would be privately run. Drug-related overdose deaths began to spoke in 2015 with the presence of fetanyl, according to Philadelphia Public Health. ( Fox News) The sites would give drug addicts a safe haven to shoot up and would offer sterile injection equipment, including needles, and Naloxone. Fox News would also give referrals to treatment centers, social services clinics and wound care facilities. The idea comes as a paradigm shift in the nation’s effort to stem the tide of opioid-related deaths.Seattle and New York have been among places that have mulled similar measures, but the efforts stalled because of either legal or bureaucratic hurdles. Canada and Europe have operated similar types of facilities for the last few decades. Thomas Farley latest-headlines If we don’t do this, more people are going to continue to die, imagine if your daughter was out there injecting heroin every day – you would try everything you could do to keep her alive. Thomas Farley latest-headlines We have n’t seen a public health emergency like this in the last century, it’s time for us to rethink our assumptions, and consider options we had n’t seen before. Unlike similar efforts by other cities, the injection sites would not need City Council approval because they would be privately run. According to Philadelphia Public Health drug-related overdose deaths began to spoke in 2015 with the presence of fetanyl. ( Fox News) The sites would give drug addicts a safe haven to shoot up and would offer sterile injection equipment, including needles, and Naloxone. Fox News would also give referrals to treatment centers, social services clinics and wound care facilities. The idea comes as a paradigm shift in the nation’s effort to stem the tide of opioid-related deaths.Seattle and New York have been among places that have mulled similar measures, but the efforts stalled because of either legal or bureaucratic hurdles. Canada and Europe have operated similar types of facilities for the last few decades. Thomas Farley health If Some Philadelphia officials don’t do this, more people are going to continue to die, imagine if your daughter was out there injecting heroin every day – you would try everything you could do to keep her alive. Thomas Farley health There is a particular site in Vancouver [ Insite ] that has operated for some 15 years with thousands of overdoses, and not one single death. Thomas Farley health No one here condones or supports illegal drug use in any way, we want people saddled with drug addiction to get help. Thomas Farley latest-headlines
