Health Minister Adrian Dix says in a news release that full coverage of the medications will be available to all B.C. residents with an active medical services plan.
A better option to treating the opioid crisis is to help those in need now … rather than waiting to see how their suffering will affect them and society as a whole.
The costs are always the same … either be a conservative and villainize these people and let them become a burden on society and costs go towards police, security, emergency health care, judicial and negative social effects from their destroyed lives
… or …
Be more socially minded and spend the funds on helping these people now and prevent them from spiralling out of control and negatively affecting their lives further or the lives of others.
Conservatives always seem to prefer being reactive rather than proactive, because when you are reactive you actually see the effects of the money being spent (gear for police, jails, etc.).
Being proactive you just see money being spent and you don’t actually see as much physical and obvious things, mostly just stats and numbers (less crowded ERs, lower crime rates, less overdoses, etc.) Which are harder for them to believe/justify.
Is there any NA city that implemented this that actually reduced overall drug abuse and homelessness? I always assumed the “you can do it!” Group was always loud via survivorship bias.
I just hope we’re not throwing good money after bad.
I’m also concerned with the reports, or that one documentary by that conservative dude who’s got some incredibly distasteful opinions on other things so no one would even give the video a watch.
Some people getting a “safe supply” of up to 40 “dollies” per day, and then they’d just go and sell those to get the hard stuff. With the dollies even finding their way into public schools.
It’s a good idea, but it shouldn’t be a long term solution, it should be for weening people off and giving them safe places to use. It needs to be paired with giving a shit all across the board, getting these people into good housing, social services, jobs if possible.
The unfortunate reality of substance abuse is not the lack of care, but the lack of commitment or motivation to get care. Same with all the resources we provide for mental illness.
We need to find more ways to get people into treatment, or at least incentivize them to do so.
I’ve heard a number of stories of people asking for assistance with mental health and being added to a list that will take them as much as 6 months to be seen even once. So what is it? Are there so few resources to help those who are asking, never mind those who have given up, or are we spending vast amounts on that with no one taking advantage of it? The evidence suggests the former.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !canada@lemmy.ca
Here I am paying sales tax on kratom like a cuck!
Conservatives always seem to prefer being reactive rather than proactive, because when you are reactive you actually see the effects of the money being spent (gear for police, jails, etc.).
Being proactive you just see money being spent and you don’t actually see as much physical and obvious things, mostly just stats and numbers (less crowded ERs, lower crime rates, less overdoses, etc.) Which are harder for them to believe/justify.
Basically the life of an IT admin in a nutshell
Is there any NA city that implemented this that actually reduced overall drug abuse and homelessness? I always assumed the “you can do it!” Group was always loud via survivorship bias.
I just hope we’re not throwing good money after bad.
I’m also concerned with the reports, or that one documentary by that conservative dude who’s got some incredibly distasteful opinions on other things so no one would even give the video a watch.
Some people getting a “safe supply” of up to 40 “dollies” per day, and then they’d just go and sell those to get the hard stuff. With the dollies even finding their way into public schools.
It’s a good idea, but it shouldn’t be a long term solution, it should be for weening people off and giving them safe places to use. It needs to be paired with giving a shit all across the board, getting these people into good housing, social services, jobs if possible.
The unfortunate reality of substance abuse is not the lack of care, but the lack of commitment or motivation to get care. Same with all the resources we provide for mental illness.
We need to find more ways to get people into treatment, or at least incentivize them to do so.
I’ve heard a number of stories of people asking for assistance with mental health and being added to a list that will take them as much as 6 months to be seen even once. So what is it? Are there so few resources to help those who are asking, never mind those who have given up, or are we spending vast amounts on that with no one taking advantage of it? The evidence suggests the former.
Some people are genuinely in pain, e.g. those with osteoarthritis, and opioid treatment, e.g. methadone, could reduce their suffering, good for them!