I think we have already measured the results of the experiment but we are unwilling to accept the outcome. We know it’s designed to reduce the risk of death and not designed to reduce the use of drug use. So now we see more drug use and death risk is up. Case closed. Experiment failed.
Deeply disturbing, especially with the return of the NDP gov. who did their last-minute about-face to say they would stop 'safe supply' just because it was the vote-getting thing to say. I'm waiting to see our streets cleaned up and tent cities gone. Not to see those people just disappear but to get the serious long-term support, counselling and redirection they need to turn their lives around. This safe supply has been an unmitigated disaster.
This is just more hypocrisy from our do as I say and not as I do public leaders who've spent the last 45 years instilling fear of privatization into our heads: All that is good is granted by the benign and compassionate public sector while all evil and corruption oozes from the greedy machinations of the private sector.
It's time to end this insanity loop we've become programmed to accept, stop banging our heads against the wall and grow up.
"The trouble with this whole country is that it’s divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them." - Hugh MacLennan.
"Safer Supply" is not an experiment. It's not designed to improve lives. It's not even designed to prevent drug overdoses or deaths. It's designed to create addicts. More and more addicts. There's money, and power, on the line. This is policy.
Go Dr. Somers. We need you. I wish you well, it's going to be a hard slog.
I think we have already measured the results of the experiment but we are unwilling to accept the outcome. We know it’s designed to reduce the risk of death and not designed to reduce the use of drug use. So now we see more drug use and death risk is up. Case closed. Experiment failed.
Deeply disturbing, especially with the return of the NDP gov. who did their last-minute about-face to say they would stop 'safe supply' just because it was the vote-getting thing to say. I'm waiting to see our streets cleaned up and tent cities gone. Not to see those people just disappear but to get the serious long-term support, counselling and redirection they need to turn their lives around. This safe supply has been an unmitigated disaster.
This is just more hypocrisy from our do as I say and not as I do public leaders who've spent the last 45 years instilling fear of privatization into our heads: All that is good is granted by the benign and compassionate public sector while all evil and corruption oozes from the greedy machinations of the private sector.
It's time to end this insanity loop we've become programmed to accept, stop banging our heads against the wall and grow up.
"The trouble with this whole country is that it’s divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them." - Hugh MacLennan.
"Safer Supply" is not an experiment. It's not designed to improve lives. It's not even designed to prevent drug overdoses or deaths. It's designed to create addicts. More and more addicts. There's money, and power, on the line. This is policy.