Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺

Human. She/her. Bi. Nurse. Advocate. YIMBY. Bibliophile. Pessimistic idealist.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Jezabella9 @MelissaLantsman I have personal and professional experience in addiction. Safe supply is not making anything worse. It's not the solution, but it's a program that works for many. Yes there are problems, yes there is diversion, but we need as many resources as possible to address this crisis.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@ThetwilightZon5 @MelissaLantsman I want to know what you think it means. I know where the word comes from, but why did you use it as it doesn't apply to anyone on safe supply. What does junkie mean to you?

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Jezabella9 @MelissaLantsman Diversion exists, yes. But we can't scrap a whole program because some use it to get street fentanyl. It works for many many people. And even those who are diverting, are avoiding criminal activity like survival sex and theft.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Jezabella9 @MelissaLantsman If treatment works, it's only for a month. Then what? After care doesn't work. Treatment alone doesn't work. We need a full social and medical safety net for a chance at a stable life, and safe supply is *one part of that.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Jezabella9 @MelissaLantsman We're not prescribing any of that. Those dependent on opiates can't just stop and it is much better to get them on a regulated safe supply than to force them to use toxic tainted fentanyl.

Safe Supply is not a solution, it's a bandaid for the lack of action from the government.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Jezabella9 @MelissaLantsman In Ontario we can only prescribe regulated dilaudid and morphine. Safe Supply is only for those already dependent on fentanyl or other street opiates.

More points of contact can only be beneficial.

I'd prefer drug dealers selling dilaudid then selling unregulated fentanyl.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Jezabella9 @MelissaLantsman And often the places that prescribe Safe Supply also provide resources for all of that. PHC, mental health care, housing, legal aid, help with benefits. And are also some of the same place that offer flexible employment to users.

Safe Supply is safe.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@ThetwilightZon5 @MelissaLantsman Define junkie please, what do you mean by that term?

Safe Supply is exactly that, a safe supply of opiates, meaning less overdoses, less deaths. Alcohol and cannabis being regulated and standardized by govenrment is safe supply. This isn't a new concept.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@B3man1 @MelissaLantsman Getting on safe supply is helping oneself.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@OttawaCitizen Nah, I'm still pretty disgusted with him.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@Drakisikard @_MarkSutcliffe @OCDSB No, they simply do not. They have eroded the public's trust and deserve no special treatment and have no place in uniform in schools. And that's not just my opinion, it is that fo parents, students and school boards.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@OhMelodylane @MattWalshBlog *she
*she
*she

She is now an adult and chose to go through with surgery as an adult. There are risks and there is post op care.

*she

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@OhMelodylane @MattWalshBlog She's not a child, she's an adult. She chose.

Don't be obtuse by equating a trans person's rights to gender-affirming care to a someone wanting to be a "worm", you know it's not the same and a useless point.

You have no right to tell someone else what to do with their body.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@TheLoneCanadian @axandre__ @wickdchiq If the 90% are unwilling to call out and hold the supposed bad 10% accountable, morally and legally, then they are all complicit. Causing harm, and watching others cause harm and doing nothing is the same.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@jaytcanada @wickdchiq @OttawaPolice Sloly didn't do his job but he also didn't have support of his own members who were actively participating and enabling convoyers. The new police chief didn't disperse the convoy, the feds and the RCMP did.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@OhMelodylane @MattWalshBlog She chose. No one did this to her.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@juniebug_1 @MikeBarrettON @fordnation @Sflecce @_MarkSutcliffe How is asking a police officer to not wear their uniform and weapons when addressing grade 1 class, woke? If they aren't there investigating a crime, and are off-duty, they can talk to the class about policing in plain clothes. It's so not that big a deal.

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@pstaten54 @benshapiro How is this in any way related?

[Card Hort🏳️‍🌈🩺 @cardhorton]

@benshapiro Yours?