@Mattxduchak No, that's why we need massive expansion of involuntary treatment.
Allowing people to use hard drugs in public and then wander around high causing harm to themselves and others is neither compassionate nor progressive.
The lies, deceit, and disinformation spread by pro-drug activists is absolutely insidious.
These people shouldn't get a single cent of taxpayer money. Resources need to be funneled into treatment, recovery, prevention, and enforcement - no more government drug dens.
Conservatives are so deluded about addiction and their causes that they almost perfectly contradict the most causal relationship between decriminalization and a reduction in overdose deaths.
@Mattxduchak I think addicts won't concentrate in on place, use, and then spill out into the surrounding neighbourhood to cause crime and disorder if there are no injection sites.
Hard to do that when you're placed in recovery care instead of given easier access to drugs.
@Mattxduchak Didn't say injection sites cause addiction. I said they perpetuate addiction.
Free drug handouts - "safe" supply - is what helps creat new addicts.
@Mattxduchak They did get the help they needed, though. Involuntary inpatient treatment that started with several police run-ins/arrests.
What didn't help them whatsoever was giving them of drugs and turning them loose in public.
@Mattxduchak@rita_rewerts No idea why you keep acting like this was some police initiative rather than an NDP initiative supported by NDP-aligned law enforcement figureheads. It's nonsensical.
@Mattxduchak I'm a child of an addict who knows the feeding addicts more of what's killing them is not a solution
I'm happy for you for being clean for so long. Genuinely, it's an achievement worth celebrating. But it clearly doesn't make you an expert on how to solve this.
@rita_rewerts@Mattxduchak The person who just said there was no decriminalization is calling me a liar lmao
What deeply unserious - and frankly borderline evil - people you both are
@rita_rewerts@Mattxduchak "There was no decriminalization"
It went on for three years. Again, correlated directly with the peak of the OD crisis.
Stop lying and obfuscating.
Decriminalizing people who use drugs in B.C. - Province of British Columbia https://t.co/UxXxSGLLP3
@Mattxduchak@rita_rewerts There haven't been any "safe" consumption sites, period. There have been hard drug injection sites, and some of those have closed.
@identitykrysis You're not a serious person at all. Israel is the ONLY multicultural democracy in the Middle East. Iran is, quite literally, a state sponsor of global terror.
These are both indisputable facts, even if the hurt your feelings.
Sharing a graph that shows ODs peaked during the NDP's failed decriminalization experiment to try to claim the NDP is doing well on drug policy.
It's so ridiculous you can't do anything but laugh.
BC Conservatives will continue fighting culture wars because itβs all that theyβve got. This is how they will govern. Not by proposing evidence based solutions but by using vulnerable people as props.
Meanwhile the NDP has been actively reducing overdose deaths
@Teelin Calling a snap election less than two years into your majority government while the opposition has no leader... definitely NOT opportunism, am I right?
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