{"id":64,"date":"2025-05-23T05:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/row-erupts-as-german-city-plans-safe-room-for-crack-addicts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T05:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:21:16","slug":"row-erupts-as-german-city-plans-safe-room-for-crack-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/row-erupts-as-german-city-plans-safe-room-for-crack-addicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Row erupts as German city plans safe room for crack addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“People think that you can behave differently here, that you don’t stick out,” said Wolfgang Barth, a veteran local social worker.<\/p>\n

Germany’s first drug consumption room opened there in 1996, modelled on similar services in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Inside a plain room with stainless steel benches, heroin addicts can be seen “cooking” the drug on spoons over tea lights before injecting it into their arms or groins.<\/p>\n

Today, three centres also provide addicts with food, beds and counselling.<\/p>\n

“The primary goal is to save lives and not to criminalise people,” says Christian Rupp, city spokesman for health and social affairs. <\/p>\n

Last year 20 people died of drug overdoses in Frankfurt, down from a peak of 147 in 1991. “Nobody has yet died of an overdose in a consumption room,” Rupp said.<\/p>\n

But some worry that the concentration of help centres signals a permissive attitude, attracting yet more addicts to the area.<\/p>\n

‘Drug tourism’<\/p>\n

Hesse state’s conservative premier, Boris Rhein, in March charged that the Bahnhofsviertel had become a “magnet for drug tourism… a closed ecosystem of buying, getting high, getting treatment and getting care and advice all in one place”.<\/p>\n

Local members of the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) party this month called for the closure of the area’s consumption rooms altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> A battle has broken out over plans to open a new help centre for crack addicts near Frankfurt’s main railway station, an area notorious for its bustling illegal drugs scene. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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