How widespread are the homeless/mental health/addiction issues in your city/province?

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Originally Posted by lio45

Well, I'm 100% with Metro-One on this at least: if the State is going to pay for your morphine, THEN you have to do your shoot on the premises. You're not leaving the building with anything that has street market value.

Gf and I personally know a shitload of "fake morphine addicts" who are enrolled at the opioid clinic, and they get their daily morphine for free, and trade it all for crack, each day. The irony is that the clinic is full, no new admissions, so I know several opioid addicts who can't get it (they're on a waiting list with no chance of anything happening anytime soon, probably no chance of success within their life expectancy, no exaggeration!), therefore, the actual opioid addicts who are waiting for enrollment buy their opioids in cash from the fake opioid addicts who are grandfathered into the program, who get the stuff for free from the healthcare system each day, sell it to the actual addicts who aren't into the program, and use the money to buy crack.

It's maddening, or to be more exact, it WOULD be maddening to me, if I weren't so blasé about the fact that IMO, Quebec is quickly going to shit, and this sort of thing is just perfectly normal -- it's how we do things here.

Any consolation in the fact that we're far from the only ones?