Miss Shark
10-20-2007, 02:00 PM
I read this on another board, and thought I'd post it here.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/14372284/detail.html
"Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini."]Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini.
Some snippets:
Hoping to reduce San Francisco's high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the local public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility in North America, a 4-year-old Vancouver site where an estimated 700 users a day self-administer narcotics under the supervision of nurses.
Colfax estimated that there are between 11,000 and 15,000 intravenous drug users in San Francisco, most of them homeless men. Like many large U.S. cities, the city operates a clean needle exchange program to reduce HIV and Hepatitis C infections.
Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini.
Sway are you aware of the one n Vancouver? Being a nurse what are your thoughts on this?
I've gotta say I'll support anything that will help our homeless and over crowded jails. I think it's a start albeit a small one. We go along way in this country if we could just learn to take care of our mentally ill, and not over crowd our jails with people on minor drug offences.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/14372284/detail.html
"Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini."]Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini.
Some snippets:
Hoping to reduce San Francisco's high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the local public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility in North America, a 4-year-old Vancouver site where an estimated 700 users a day self-administer narcotics under the supervision of nurses.
Colfax estimated that there are between 11,000 and 15,000 intravenous drug users in San Francisco, most of them homeless men. Like many large U.S. cities, the city operates a clean needle exchange program to reduce HIV and Hepatitis C infections.
Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini.
Sway are you aware of the one n Vancouver? Being a nurse what are your thoughts on this?
I've gotta say I'll support anything that will help our homeless and over crowded jails. I think it's a start albeit a small one. We go along way in this country if we could just learn to take care of our mentally ill, and not over crowd our jails with people on minor drug offences.