No, this would encourage drug use and lower funding for rehabilitation centers

This gives the victims of drug dealing a place to use drugs safely without harm to society, and would also give charities and authorities the chance to offer rehab to large groups rather than piecemeal to individuals.

Harm reduction is evidence backed as one of the most effective strategies. We need to make sure there is enough funding for both safe havens and rehabs.

Drug addiction needs to be helped better and one can only be helped if they choose to themselves. We should always work to support others and provide safe places.

Addicts are addicted and will find a way to have drugs, at least under supervision they can be coached out of it and be safe from overdose at the same time

People are always going to use drugs and it is better that we don't push into the hands of criminals, we can make it safer and help people recover from addiction if we decriminalise it

Criminalising drug use does not work, help addicts to wean them off drugs while giving them safe drugs rather than unsafe street drugs (which funds crime)

Some people
Will end up going back to drugs, so allowing a safe environment where they are monitored by it, allows them to slowly get better and those monitoring can keep giving them weaker versions of the drug to the point it gets out their system.

People will do drugs regardless. There should facilities for people to use drugs safely and educate themselves

People will use regardless. Criminalization makes the act inherently less safe and puts women and vulnerable persons at heightened risk of violence and unsafe supply.

No this would mean that there would be less fear around drugs so people would feel safer about getting advice and help for themselves.

Drug use is rampant regardless. Giving them a safe haven does not only provide them with clean equipment (largely preventing overdose and issues like HIV), they can also be given resources that may help them to get off drugs.

People taking drugs could do so in a safe environment, receive support to quit and it would reduce crime

In other places in the world, treating addicts as sick and not as criminals works a lot better than our current system here.
Also, safe havens gets drugs regulated, lowers risk of overdose due to improper dosage and removes drugs from the street where people who wouldn't usually participate are exposed

Being a substance misuse criminal justice worker I can suggest with confidence that this would actually allow the overdose rate to remain stagnant or indeed increase with recent drug prevalence.

Drug use will always happen, no matter what the government does. So the best thing to do is protect those users and make sure that they are safe.

Driving people underground or leaving them in a desperate position puts them more at risk of being preyed on by criminals.

Drug addicts will take drugs regardless of whether the treatment centre is there or not - better to help them manage their addiction in safety than lose lives to overdoses - remember its the addiction that is the disease, and it’s often created by trauma or societal factors - we shouldn’t be criminalising drug addicts or leaving them to die in the grips of a crippling addiction

Rehabilitation centres should be encouraged, with safe havens offering a place to regulate drug consumption to those who already would anyway. It would also decrease the risk of death by overdose and passing on of diseases, creating lesser strain on public health services.

Rehab centres already exist, and have proven low success rates. You will never be able to stop an adult from accessing substances if they want them. This is proven by prohibition and ongoing use of classified substances today. Education and safeguarding are the best measures.

Portugal, people at that point take drugs regardless of legality and need help, moreover alcohol is a much more concerning drug which we allow + incarceration does not help costs more and makes lives worse

No it will not encourage drug use, as drugs are used in surplus every day, now people can take them in safer environments, which will hopefully decrease strain on the NHS as people are less likely to take contaminated drugs

Treating drug abuse as a psychological issue has been shown to be much more effective than criminilisation.

It would save more lives and money by having safe havens as they're would be less a strain on hospitals and doctors. It would probably reduce the amount of usage as you are giving these people a safe place to be heard and maybe through that they may change their way of looking at things? They maybe even would get better?

In every case in which a country has properly undertaken a policy of drug decriminalization and treatment of drug addiction as a medical and economic problem, we have seen drastic reductions in addiction to hard drugs, overdoses, and the economic burden on the state as it allows more people to become productive members of society

Safe use and decriminalisation has been successfully done in other counties lowering addiction rates and deaths

People will use drugs no matter if these are available or not but their availability will prevent deaths

But it would save lives. The only way to discourage drug use would be to legalise it, tax it and educate around it

Safer drug use is better overall for users because if they feel they can use safely then they are more likely to lean on systems to get clean

Drug use happens any way, at least this way people will feel less shame to ask for help and when they take the drugs in the safe haven, they will be less likely to die.

Safe haven policies can be used alongside rehabilitation centers, this can be accomplished through either raised taxes on the most wealthy members of our society or divestment from our strikingly high defense budget. This will allow harm reduction as safe havens will allow drug testing which will limit risk to drug users and the presence of professionals may encourage them to seek help in the form of medical treatment through rehabilitation.