As the opioid crisis worsens across Canada, the future of safe consumption sites is on the line — while toxic drugs continue to claim lives.

It’ll work when government spends real money on it.

That means real institutions, not shoestring strip-mall locations with precarious funding. It also means safe-supply. It also means housing. And–this is the hard one for advocates–it means humane incarceration for people for whom support, housing and safe-supply aren’t enough.

All of this comes with a price tag, but we’d rather build a spa parking lot or give Galen Weston money to upgrade his fridges or some such bullshit.

I agree. I don’t mind the government spending real money on it to prove it works, but 100% the advocates will never agree to forcibly incarcerating people who are unwilling or unable to participate in society at a civilized level.

So it’s doomed to fail and everyone will want to thanos -snap the problem away.

All they are is dust in the wind dude.

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