Only in New York — as the state goes flat broke.
A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers informationon how to prepare drugs carefully and how to care for veins to avoidinfection.
The state’s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration callsit a “step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison.”
DEA Special Agent-In-Charge John Gilbride says the handout is “very disturbing.”
But Mayor Bloomberg defends the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s decision to print the pamphlets.
“I would certainly not reccomend to anyone that they use hard drugs orsoft drugs,” he said. “But our health department does have an interestin if you’re going to do certain things to get you to do it ashealthily as you possibly can.”
The department printed about 70,000 copies of the handout.