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Originally Posted by Vin
Oh really? Death sentence? On the contrary, by not doing that we are meting out death sentences to them already, not to mention the drain in public dollars.
500 deaths so far in 2021:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7819752/b...rs-march-2021/
So 500 people died this year because they went cold turkey? Nope, not at all. They could still be alive if they actually did. Agreeing to the status quo is like letting users die on the streets. |
Sigh. It must be Friday - time for another Vin Igno-rant.
Families of drug users have greater understanding than you do. Your comments are the perfect illustration of the stigma that is part of the reason that people are dying. Families across BC are calling for
a safe supply. One reason is that increasingly it's
not fantanyl that's being added to drugs, it's benzodiazepine, which isn't reversed by Naloxone.
And many - the majority - of the people dying are not street-using addicts. They're not in the DTES (despite the title of this thread, which seems to be redundant). They were casual users, or people dealing with anxiety, or depression, or an opiate addiction related to prescribed painkillers, with homes they lived in. For example, of the six people who died of drug overdoses in Surrey in the past week,
five of them died at home.
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