San Francisco Considers Injection Room

By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer, Medicine & Health / Other

In this Oct. 14, 1998 file photo, a man shoots heroin in an injection room in Frankfurt, Germany. San Francisco city health officials took the first tentative steps Thursday Oct. 18, 2007, towards opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer)

(AP) -- City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.

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Posted by zonky85 10/19/07 14:34

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Ok thats good. God, San Francisco is going to hell. "Lets help make sure all the addicts don't overdose, so they can continue to be a blight to our city" I'm a big believer in survival of the fittest and elimination of the Dumb. Let them overdose, we don't need them.