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Originally Posted by lirette
I advocate on this forum for development and other issues and have done so for many years. I also addressed the factors that affect society as a whole and not just the people who use the facilities in my post. Its not helpful for the discussion to put words into my mouth or assume what I do or don't care about.
If you close these facilities, I expect that the visible behavior you are concerned about is not going away, in fact you get more people shooting up in the streets and on public property, without any ability to even test their supply for fentanyl, resulting in worse outcomes.
We should be spending a lot more time talking about how that person ended up in a situation where they needed these services and a lot less time trying to talk about closing down the service that has access to resources and potentially saves their life's, and keeps our EMS staff safer and reduces the strain on our hospitals.
I'm more than open to Higgs idea of consultations with local governments on these facilities and their impacts. I'm sure they would even welcome it. It would probably do him a lot of good to talk directly with the operator of Ensemble, talk to front line ambulance workers about their experience responding to calls. He might even hear a few stories about people who were able to get the right resources after going to the facility and are on a path to sobriety.
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How can you point to these 'services' as helping emergency resources? They're all strained to the absolute maximum right now. The more services catering to drug addicts and criminals, the more time and money they suck up. Police arrest the same guy three times a week, and firefighters and paramedics resurrect him twice in the same time span. Before the proliferation of these enablement facilities we did not have a zombie war zone around Waterloo.
Police and fire report regularly, at least annually, on call types, volume, and location. Not sure about EMS. It does not paint a pretty picture of the area. IIRC there's as many emergency services calls between City Road and Union than in the rest of the city combined.
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