Republicans accused the Biden administration of funding the shipment of “crack pipes' to Black communities, after the HHS announced a grant for local organizations offering drug users resources, including vaccinations, treatment information and sterile paraphernalia.
Conservative figures have launched an online furor this week, claiming that the government planned to spend $30 million on pipes for smoking crack cocaine.
“Obviously, we would like everybody who is addicted to never use drugs again, but if we can’t have that, we should be grateful to at least reduce use or reduce the damage of use to that person or to the people around them,” he said.On Wednesday, the White House and HHS denied the funds would be spent on the pipes.
These groups, often at the front line in communities hit hardest by the latest waves of the overdose epidemic, directly service people who use drugs, deploying “the law of attraction” to get people otherwise marginalized or unable to access health-care resources, such as information about treatment, Vakharia said, a necessity when people who use drugs are often stigmatized.
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