We need to find a balance between demonizing drug use and offering safe supply. Neither option is going to help all that much. I mean, look at the war on drugs! Look at what’s happened to San Francisco (Vancouver...any other major liberal city...)! How about offering treatment? Maybe even *gasp* mandating IT instead of prison?
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We need to find a balance between demonizing drug use and offering safe supply. Neither option is going to help all that much. I mean, look at the war on drugs! Look at what’s happened to San Francisco (Vancouver...any other major liberal city...)! How about offering treatment? Maybe even *gasp* mandating IT instead of prison?
Call me cynical, but my life has been harshly touched by this crisis. How about the government using some of the money they make off the illegal drug trade and putting it toward treatment?! Not *here are free and safe drugs* “treatment”...but real treatment that gets people more OFF the garbage?
Yes, from what I understand most of those sites do not supply the drugs. I also know, from someone close to me who struggles, that they can be difficult places. For example, this person has been stolen from or threatened with violence many times at a supervised site. It's a good spot to ensure someone doesn't die immediately from an OD, though. But of course they have limited hours, and their own drawbacks I guess. Anyway, I think it's a "good", but it's not enough by itself, and I wonder how much it just feeds into the criminal drug pushing! We need more treatment options, not just drug use sustaining options.
There have also been incidents here in Vancouver free drugs were given out, right outside a police station! Not an ongoing thing, as far as I know, but a peculiar choice.
We need to find a balance between demonizing drug use and offering safe supply. Neither option is going to help all that much. I mean, look at the war on drugs! Look at what’s happened to San Francisco (Vancouver...any other major liberal city...)! How about offering treatment? Maybe even *gasp* mandating IT instead of prison?
Call me cynical, but my life has been harshly touched by this crisis. How about the government using some of the money they make off the illegal drug trade and putting it toward treatment?! Not *here are free and safe drugs* “treatment”...but real treatment that gets people more OFF the garbage?
Oh! Cause the garbage makes the money.
Thank you both for covering this issue.
I believe most safe consumption sites do not supply the drugs. That being said it does seem like a slippery slope. I assumed they did at first, and the media and politicians certainly dont do a good job of making that distinction. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/supervised-consumption-sites/explained.html
Yes, from what I understand most of those sites do not supply the drugs. I also know, from someone close to me who struggles, that they can be difficult places. For example, this person has been stolen from or threatened with violence many times at a supervised site. It's a good spot to ensure someone doesn't die immediately from an OD, though. But of course they have limited hours, and their own drawbacks I guess. Anyway, I think it's a "good", but it's not enough by itself, and I wonder how much it just feeds into the criminal drug pushing! We need more treatment options, not just drug use sustaining options.
There have also been incidents here in Vancouver free drugs were given out, right outside a police station! Not an ongoing thing, as far as I know, but a peculiar choice.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/free-heroin-cocaine-and-meth-handed-out-outside-of-the-vancouver-police-department-3956140