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FTA:
"The smoking supplies serve two purposes, Dean says. They encourage people to stop injecting, a vector for disease. And they encourage people who are already smoking to come into clinics, where the county can offer fentanyl test strips, Narcan, a fast-acting overdose reversal drug, and other services."
Jesus these people are dumb. The number one reason people choose to shoot up over smoking or avoid clinics is NOT a lack of tinfoil and straws.
Just because a deterrent isn't the "number one reason" doesn't mean that it's a bad deterrent. If this is helping some people that's great. It's not like someone is going to go pick this stuff up having never done the drug before, and even if that did happen then I'm pretty sure the clinic would be working to dissuade them from trying it.