I'm already feeling withdrawl symptoms...

Brochures and needle exchanges don't encourage use, they just try and educate people already using about being safer, so if they ever are able to quit, they don't then have to battle AIDs and hepatitis as well. This douchebag's political grandstanding is actively hurting an already sad and pathetic population in need of help.

Safety Guidelines for Heroin: Don't use it, you morons!

"Heroin for Dummies"

Bullet points for the brochure:

Prevent Overdose, Treat Overdose, Don't Share, Use New Syringes, Prepare Drugs Carefully, Take Care of Your Veins, Know Your HIV Status, Hepatitis Testing/Treatment, Depression Help, Help To Stop Using

Found a download site link to the full PDF. I downloaded this, looks legit.

http://rghost.net/789138

Dump the first hep C patient who could have been prevented on Vallone's doorstep.

I'm trying to think of the upside of destroying this brochure.

Saving money? Nope: 1. It's already spent, and 2. If it actually works and prevents some druggie from catching AIDS, we'll all save a ton of cash.

Preventing some harm from the brochure? Nah - no one starts using smack because they read a brochure about AIDS, hepatitis, and depression and thinks "wow, what have I been missing?!" Besides, if you thought this thing was actually harmful...well, congrats, now people in LA are reading it.

There might have been an argument for not publishing this (or for just writing it slightly differently -- though if you actually want junkies to read it, you're going to need to make it simple and basically non-judgmental, or they're just going to ignore it.) But destroying it? That's just political asshatery.

"Just trying to help heroin addicts shoot up in a safe manor"

Bloomberg's townhouse maybe? I can't imagine a safer manor.

I'll say it again. Leave the typos, we love them! (ok, maybe it's just me)...But Mainline Manor would be a good name for a shooting gallery. And from there you could go to the Methadone Manor detox. Rinse and repeat. To the manor born. I'll stop now.

They should have similar posters for condoms... for the kids.

It would be nice if the US took a 21st Century, medically based view of addiction versus the 18th C. way we view it now.

They should really just let natural selection take place.

Heroin addicts would just naturally disappear...

It chrisitine quinn and those other useless city council members that should disappear. Darwin laws failed in that chamber.

Natural Selection should happen in many different areas in New York....

More stupid political grandstanding by asshat politicians who grasp at low hanging fruit in order to appear righteous instead of doing their fucking jobs.

Vallone is an ignorant useless man. Why doesn't he resign after he and his father advocated overturning term limits to extend his own job? Why does he resign after voting to increase their base pay over 100k for a part time job in the city council?

I sat in front of Vallone Jr. during a lecture at Baruch's School of Public Affairs. He had to be told to stop talking by no less than 4 people sitting near him as he sat and cackled/flirted with a young female aide. He acted like a petulant teenager. The best part of the story is that it was a lecture under the Peter F. Vallone, Sr. Seminars in Government series that his father was moderating. He couldn't even bother to pay attention to the man whose coattails he rode to success.

Thanks for sharing. And yes at the term limit hearing, he was flirting with this gorgeous blond reporter. And she tolerated his lame flirtations as she asked him questions.