Posted on 02/14/2018 10:08:25 AM PST by pabianice
The British Columbia public health authorities are making a huge mistake. The province is advancing a series of reckless interventions that are counterproductive in fighting the opioid epidemic. If B.C. continues in this manner, the province is destined to remain in a state of perpetual opioid addiction.
Ottawa recently granted approval of a B.C. pilot to distribute high-dose hydromorphone, a potent opioid, three times daily at supportive housing units and supervised injection sites. Drug users are free to use the hydromorphone as they please; authorities anticipate many will crush and inject the opioids to intensify their high. Moreover, the province has plans to grant “qualified” opioid users biometric access to vending machines of hydromorphone for drug users’ convenient consumption.
Proponents argue that providing a readily accessible supply of “clean opioids” is necessary to reduce overdose deaths in an environment contaminated by fentanyl. The program’s architect, Dr. Mark Tyndall, executive director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, admits that installing opioid vending machines isn’t treatment but suggests there will be an ensuing transition to “substitution therapy and eventually recovery.”
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It’s called ‘assisted suicide’.
Soma
Those addicts are already dead, they are just zombies roaming the streets until they eventually overdose.
The Chinese cured their opiate problem a 100 years ago...
Pretty much it was quit or die...
I was thinking ten cent pistols
Meanwhile, my doctor has told me he doesn’t want to refill a ‘script I have used for the last 20 odd years because it has suddenly become listed as an opioid/narcotic and the paperwork is a nightmare.
I used to get 100 at a time, and they lasted me 6-10 months. Now I can’t get them at all, and the OTC med is more expensive per pill, I have to take 3-5 pills for the same level of relief, and my insurance doesn’t reimburse my cost because they are OTC.
Welcome to BC. Bring Cash!
As a former resident of Vancouver, this is old news. There are govt-run “drug houses” where they keep the homeless drugged up and it’s not even unusual to find some dude at the bus stop with needles sticking out of his arm. Kanada eh?
“Welcome to BC. Bring Cash!”
I havent heard of that term since high school LOL.
Will they be creating “School-Free Drug-Zones”?
After watching cheesy Canadian cop shows (DaVinci’s Inquest, Cold Squad) I’d presumed they had done this a couple of decades ago.
"Qualified" opioid users..
Will they be issuing the "qualified drug addicts" professional credentials? Perhaps they can offer a PDA (Professional Drug Addict) License using a process similar that that by which they issue Professional Engineer and Professional Architect licenses? And people could get more than one license.
"Hello, nice to meet you. My name is WayneS, PE, AIA, PDA."
Will there be specialization? Could expert marijuana users get a PDA-THC License, heroin addicts a PDA-H, Meth addicts an "-M" suffix, etc.?
There are so many possibilities. These guys are geniuses! Geniuses, I say...
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for my fix today.
Absolute madness. Canuckistan used to be a nice country. Somewhere they lost their way.
We would be in the same boat were it not for the Electoral College. In Canada the large urban centers rock the vote. People in Alberta or rural Saskatchewan with a lick of common sense don’t have enough clout to affect anything.
Imagine the difficulty for these Canuck vendors in that their customers must be biometrically I.D.'d by faceplant instead of fingerprint.
One hopes the side-by-side Narcan vending machine is mostly out-of-stock...
Drugs cost pennies to make but the WOD essentially turns junkies into an army of thieves for the dealers.
Addicts will steal a $10,000 AC and possibly kill the owner. Then sell it for $500 in scrap and then hand it all over to a dealer for $5 worth of product. Which would cost a drug maker 50 cents to make.
It’s safer and far cheaper to just give them their few cents worth of dope and a warm chair. Add a calm setting with counseling by professionals and they have the absolute best chance of quitting.
Throwing sligtly addicted people into a cage with even crazier people who have access to even more drugs is clearly not helping the situation...
Unfortunately it is that way in many U.S. states as well. I live next to Washington and there is not much difference between the people of Idaho and Eastern Washington. The libtard punchbowl of Seattle wrecks the rest of the state. Most of the Cali refugees I have met here in Idaho are fairly conservative people but I fear for when it gets so bad there that even the libtards leave - which will happen.
The thing that drives me nuts on those shows is that they portray cops and prosecutors arguing to NOT enforce the law.
Problem with drug dealers? Decriminalize and give them free drugs.
Problem with hookers? Just set up a legal red-light district and give them license to operate.
Apparently those shows are true-to-life.
Actually, they have a point. Pharma narcotics are a known quantity; but illegal opioids are Russian roulette.
Some of the dirt cheap Fentanyl analogues can kill in the microgram dose range. Others just a milligram. And drug dealers are willing to cut their drugs with any kind of crap as long as it gets their junkies high. If it kills them, meh, who cares?
So the bottom line is that if the junkies are issued pharma, they will likely live long enough to *maybe* kick the drug. But if they use illegal drugs, they are almost guaranteed to die sooner than later.
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