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...
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?
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...
Absolute madness. Canuckistan used to be a nice country. Somewhere they lost their way.
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...
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.