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Interior Health Canada provides glass pipes as part of their safer smoking kits, for crack and meth smokers. Part of the reasoning of providing pipes is to prevent people from injecting the drugs. “Harm reduction” programs in Maryland received backlash after it was revealed that smoking kits included glass pipes. A Washington, DC bill allowed “to distribute harm reduction supplies such as safer smoking kits, safer snorting kits, and other infectious disease prevention harm reduction materials previously criminalized under DC law.”

This program joins others that facilitate drug use by drug users by providing the means for them to use drugs. Safe injections sites have opened in many locations across the US, including in New York City.

Snopes “fact checked” the reporting by many outlets, saying that HHS issued a statement that “stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in the safe smoking kits to be distributed as part of a substance abuse harm reduction program.” Snopes claimed that conservative news outlets “reported breathlessly that the Biden administration had plans to fund the distribution of crack pipes in order to advance the cause of racial equity.”

“Harm reduction vending machine(s), including stock for machines; Infectious diseases testing kits (HIV, HBV, HCV, etc.); Medication lock boxes; and FDA-approved overdose reversal medication (as well as higher dosages now approved by FDA).”

Also included are “safe sex kits,” “safe smoking kits/supplies,” infectious disease screening, as well as “Sharps disposal and medication disposal kits; Substance test kits, including test strips for fentanyl and other synthetic drugs; Syringes to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases; Vaccination services (hepatitis A, hepatitis B vaccination); and Wound care management supplies.”

Snopes, in their “fact check,” claimed that “It’s important to note that safe smoking kits typically consist of several other items, including: a rubber mouthpieces for glass pipes, in order to prevent burns and cuts; brass screens, in order to filter out potentially harmful contaminants or debris; as well as disinfectant wipes. As such, they are a logical component of a broader substance abuse strategy of harm reduction.”

Snopes also tackled the issue of racial equity, saying, essentially, that the Biden administration injects racial equity into all their programs, which is by design and per executive order, and means that if HHS complies with these rules per the order, their distribution will be done under racially equitable terms, and to serve underserved communities, which is the mandate from Biden for all federal agencies, including HHS and their granting programs.

As to racial equity, the HHS states that the program will maintain “behavioral health equity,” which refers to the right to access quality health care for all populations regardless of the individual’s race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or geographical location. This includes access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services for mental and substance use disorders.

“Advancing health equity involves ensuring that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. In conjunction with quality services, this involves addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), such as employment and housing stability, insurance status, proximity to services, culturally responsive care – all of which have an impact on behavioral health outcomes.

“The behavioral health disparity impact statement is in alignment with the expectations related to Executive Order 13985 ‘Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.'”

That order, signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021, reads that “the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.

“Affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government.  Because advancing equity requires a systematic approach to embedding fairness in decision-making processes, executive departments and agencies (agencies) must recognize and work to redress inequities in their policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity.

“By advancing equity across the Federal Government, we can create opportunities for the improvement of communities that have been historically underserved, which benefits everyone.”

In this case, and under HHS, the opportunity that was created was for community agencies to obtain funding to facilitate “safe” drug use in their areas, through the use of paraphernalia designed to do just that, from safe smoking kits to syringes.

It is likely that HHS told the truth when they reported to the Washington Free Beacon that crack pipes would be part of the safe smoking kits, as pipes are regularly part of these kinds of kits. It is also likely that the White House, upon seeing this reporting and hearing from so many how absurd it is to give government money to fund drug use, urged HHS to walk that back, and issue a statement saying that they did not intend to include glass pipes in the safe smoking kits.

HHS said: “HHS and ONDCP are focused on using our resources smartly to reduce harm and save lives. Accordingly, no federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits. The goal of harm reduction is to save lives. The Administration is focused on a comprehensive strategy to stop the spread of drugs and curb addiction, including prioritizing the use of proven harm reduction strategies like providing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and clean syringes, as well as taking decisive actions to go after violent criminals who are trafficking illicit drugs like fentanyl across our borders and into our communities. We will continue working to address the addiction and overdose epidemic and ensure that our resources are used in the smartest and most efficient manner.”