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GENEVA’s junkies shun dingy back alleys for Quai9, a squeaky-clean, apple-green building near the railway station. Since 2001 it, like more than 80 others around the world, has offered a safe, hygienic place for injecting drugs. In the Netherlands users can pick from among 37 lawful “shooting galleries”; Germany has 26. North America and Australia have one apiece (in Vancouver and Sydney). France this month agreed to the country’s first, a trial project in Paris’s seedy Gare du Nord district.
因為Quai9的出現，日內瓦的癮君子們走出了昏暗骯臟的后街小巷。Quai9是火車站附近一棟蘋果綠色的建筑，里面非常干凈。自2001年以來，全球各地已經建立起80多個同類建筑，專門為癮君子提供安全、衛生的毒品注射場所。荷蘭為吸毒者提供了37個合法的“毒品注射處”，德國有26個，北美和澳大利亞各有一個（分別在溫哥華和悉尼）。本月法國也同意建立第一個項目試點，地點選在了骯臟破舊的巴黎北火車站地區。
Jean-Fran??ois Corty, one of its backers, says supervision can prevent overdoses. If clients “inject responsibly”, using clean needles and alcohol swabs, they avoid infection too. Around 60% of French addicts who inject their drugs have hepatitis C, he says. Many reuse syringes left in stairwells: “This is a medical question, not an ideological one”.
該項目的支持者之一珍·佛朗索瓦·科蒂說，統一管理可以防止吸毒過量。如果吸毒者能“合理注射”，使用干凈的針頭和酒精棉簽，還可以避免感染。他說，法國約60%使用注射方式的吸毒者都患有C型肝炎，很多人在樓梯間撿起別人用過的針頭重復注射：“這是個衛生問題，不是思想道德問題”。
Valérie Pécresse, a French opposition politician, has denounced the scheme as “assisted poisoning”. But Dr Corty says trials do not suggest that the supervised injection sites boost drug use. They just discourage rather than punish. Norway’s centre in Oslo limits intake to one dose of heroin per visit. Quai9 allows a stay of only 30 minutes per shot. Last year Luxembourg’s centre set up three inhalation booths to encourage less-harmful methods. Many refer addicts to health services, social workers and detox programmes. The centres are no panacea. But they help to keep needles clean—and streets clean of needles.
法國反對派政治家瓦萊麗·佩克萊斯譴責這一計劃，稱這是在“協助吸毒”。但是科蒂博士認為，處于監管下的注射點并未引發毒品濫用，相對于直接懲罰，這更像是間接勸阻。挪威首都奧斯陸的注射中心對每個吸毒者每次注射的海洛因數量做出限制；Quai9規定每次注射在注射點的停留時間不得超過30分鐘；去年盧森堡的注射中心建立了3個毒品吸食站，鼓勵癮君子使用危害更小的方式吸毒。許多站點還將吸毒者引導至健康服務站、戒毒所、或讓他們做社工。雖然這些中心不是解決吸毒問題的靈丹妙藥，但至少他們能提供干凈的針頭，也能讓街頭巷尾少一些針頭。
