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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown on Syringe Distribution Programs
2:00:02
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Sharon Brown testifies against syringe distribution programs near schools and parks, arguing that they are dangerous for children and promote drug use rather than abstinence. She advocates for biblically-based programs to address drug addiction instead of harm reduction approaches.
- Brown criticizes harm reduction services for "causing harm" by enabling drug use
- She argues that providing syringes does not solve the drug problem or prevent overdoses
- Brown suggests that Jewish and Christian faith-based approaches are more effective in preventing drug use
Sharon Brown
2:00:02
Hello.
2:00:03
My name is Sharon Brown from Rose of Sharon Enterprises.
2:00:06
Before I start, remember the hostages, release the hostages, let Yahweh's people go, defend Israel.
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Remember Israel and everything we're doing today.
2:00:16
Okay.
2:00:17
The syringes in the park is a dangerous and intentional and negligent act.
2:00:24
We can't have syringes around students and children and things like that, parents coming in, parents with strollers, different things like that.
2:00:34
That interaction is dangerous, it brings and it breathes those different elements that drug use, drug abuse, whatever people do for drugs, actually having those things happen there because the syringes will be there.
2:00:52
It's not safe for the children.
2:00:54
So the harm reduction services are actually causing harm because they're pushing the drug use instead of abstinence from the drugs.
2:01:03
Now if they see that they've been doing this, this program is not new, they've been doing this for many years, Even Joe Biden and a couple of people want to hand out syringes and things like that.
2:01:14
That's not stopping the drug problem.
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You're helping them youth, that's not a solution.
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So we need to stop saying we're we have a solution, let's give them syringes.
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And then people sell them drugs that have fentanyl or whatever in there that causes them to have overdose.
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So merely just using the drugs is not causing the overdose, but the drugs being tainted and different things like that.
2:01:41
So there are a lot of things that we do need to deal with, but giving them syringes and the ability to use drugs is not going to help them.
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We need services that will help them.
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I'm trying to implement biblical Jewish and Christian ways that we deal with these problems.
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The people in the churches, the Jews and Christians who do things biblically based, you do not find a lot of Jewish and Christian people that are on drugs.
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When we live biblically, we can have programs set up that way.
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When we do have programs inside the church that have elements of the other programs, that does not work.
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When we do it the way we do it, you find Jews and Christians were not using drugs.
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So giving people syringes, imagine us having that mindset in a church and have just so that they can understand how heinous it is to have syringes at a school.
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Imagine if we had the syringe boxes and the harm reductions around a church and we said this is a safe place, let's let them come there and exchange and they can use their drugs and feel safe.
2:02:54
No.
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Come in and let us tell you what we know to make you stop using drugs.
2:03:01
What do you have for them to stop using drugs?
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Stop giving them syringes to harm themselves with drugs that are tainted.
Linda Lee
2:03:11
Thank you.
Sharon Brown
2:03:12
You're welcome.