B.C. becomes first province to provide universal coverage for opioid treatments
B.C. becomes first province to provide universal coverage for opioid treatments
VICTORIA - British Columbia says it is providing universal coverage for opioid agonist treatments that help people with substance use disorders, makin...
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.
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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.
Best example I've ever read or seen first hand is in what they did in Portugal.
Every other example in North America is basically the same ... they did half measures, expected results in weeks or months and never bothered to see what would happen in years or even lifetimes. Everyone always wants quick answers ... but no one ever wants to admit that social problems like this will take decades and lifetimes of support, work and assistance to see positive results.
There is no quick fix ... if there was, we would have used it and been successful by now.
El Salvador fixed it's violence problem in 1 year, their methods are just not something Canadians could stomach as a solution I think.
Def not
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.