If we want to see less public drug use and people sheltering on transit, we must begin by reopening and expanding supervised consumption sites and by addressing housing unaffordability.
I was always a proponent of safe injection sites because all the experts agreed it was the best way to reduce overdoses and help people with drug addictions. What gives me pause is how it went in Vancouver and how the public turned against it to the point that it was a major election talking point. I wonder why it failed there and what can be learned from it.
Before BC decriminalized and pushed for more safe supply, there was a supply issue for precursor hemicals used in fentanyl and other street drugs from China. The supply got resolved and drug use/availability went up as BC started its new policies, resulting in worse drug use. The timing was horrible and everybody assumed correlation = causation.
You’ll notice that most of the people pushing on this topic are conservatives who not only oppose safe supply, but also oppose safe injection which is categorically and undisputably effective, backed by mountainas of medical evidence from around the world.
I was always a proponent of safe injection sites because all the experts agreed it was the best way to reduce overdoses and help people with drug addictions. What gives me pause is how it went in Vancouver and how the public turned against it to the point that it was a major election talking point. I wonder why it failed there and what can be learned from it.
Before BC decriminalized and pushed for more safe supply, there was a supply issue for precursor hemicals used in fentanyl and other street drugs from China. The supply got resolved and drug use/availability went up as BC started its new policies, resulting in worse drug use. The timing was horrible and everybody assumed correlation = causation.
You’ll notice that most of the people pushing on this topic are conservatives who not only oppose safe supply, but also oppose safe injection which is categorically and undisputably effective, backed by mountainas of medical evidence from around the world.
Safe injection sites save lives.
Can you confirm you mean safe injection sites and not safe supply?