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Originally Posted by Vin
Hence no one wants to play in those DTES parks anymore, would you like your kids or pets to be there? The syringes even pollute the waterways. This unnecessary siege is totally avoidable if all organizations cease giving out free syringes. No syringes, no problem or hazards to the public. Those addicts should not be able to lay their hands on them. Syringes should be treated as a gun: a potential weapon to kill.
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Ah yes, you're obviously pining for the Good Old Days where we had a different sharing economy - all the drug users sharing needles and giving each other HIV and hepatitis.
I think WarrenC12 is correct about the one pillar; I suspect one reason we see so many needles is because that's the one thing that's still funded adequately, so users aren't reusing or sharing needles like they used to. Part of the CBC series included an interview with the city's former co-ordinator of drug policy, who pointed out that the 4 Pillars approach barely had two years before the Harper government was elected, pulled out of all federal support and tried to close Insite. So very little could advance through the life of that government, while fentanyl started to show up with greater frequency. The Liberals haven't really come back with much more funding until a little under a year ago when they announced $71.7 million in emergency funding to improve access to addiction treatment services in B.C, but it's not clear whether that's actually funded any new programs or facilities yet.
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