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[Victoria Watcher]

Causing new addictions.

[Nparker]

Victoria doctor calls for return of witnessed safe supply of drugs...

It's a step in the right direction, but it's still treating addiction with drugs, which will never solve the problem.

[Beacon]

Victoria doctor calls for return of witnessed safe supply of drugs



“The main message I’m trying to get out is the unwitnessed safe supply program, opioids, in particular, is causing a lot of diversion of those opioids. So those pills that are meant for the patient in front of the person who’s prescribing are going to other people, and it’s causing new addictions,” Mallet said in an interview with CHEK News.

“There is widespread acceptance that these pills are being diverted. Certainly some of the pills that are being handed out are being sold,” Mallet said.

And he said no one is tracking the thousands of diverted Dilaudid pills handed out every day.

A CHEK News team went to see how difficult it was to obtain Dilaudid in downtown Victoria, and within minutes were directed to a group selling them and were able to obtain five tablets of Dillies or Dilaudid, or by its pharmaceutical name, hydromorphone.


https://www.cheknews...-drugs-1169459/

 

Global did one too, same results

 

https://globalnews.c...on-the-street-2

[Victoria Watcher]

Seattle:

 

 

 

The Seattle City Council voted 6-3 Tuesday to make drug use and possession a gross misdemeanor under city law, ending a period of uncertainty about who is responsible for enforcing those minor crimes.

 

The vote allows the city attorney to prosecute drug cases, but also encourages a “public health approach” to addiction, which would emphasize pre-trial and pre-arrest diversion and treatment programs.

 

The bill doesn't contain any new funding for drug treatment.

 

Mayor Bruce Harrell said he will “not waste any time in signing” the law and will also be issuing an executive order which, among other things, will clarify how he wants Seattle Police to enforce the new law.

 

 

 

https://www.kuow.org...-drug-ordinance

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 September 2023 - 04:06 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nanaimo and Campbell River toxic drug deaths on the rise

 

The number for the first eight months of this year is already as high as all of 2022

https://www.timescol...he-rise-7598990

[Nparker]

How's that decriminalization working out?

[Barrrister]

At what point are we going to start running out of drug addicts? 

[dasmo]

Easy to make more.

[LJ]

Easy to make more.

The free drugs practically guarantee a non-stop supply.

[dasmo]

The supply is safe

[Victoria Watcher]

Two B.C.-based lawyers, including one from Vancouver Island, are challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s drug possession laws, saying they infringe on resident’s charter rights.

 

Sarah Runyon of Marion and Runyon Criminal Lawyers in Campbell River and Caitlin Shane with Pivot Legal Society filed a notice in B.C. provincial court in Courtenay on behalf of applicant Ryan Blore, who was charged with two counts of drug possession in Courtenay in 2022.

 

The lawyers are looking for his charges to be stayed or dismissed, saying that Canada’s current drug possession laws infringe on citizen’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

 

Specifically, the court challenge cites sections 7 and 12 of the Charter.

 

Section 7 refers to everyone’s “right to life, liberty and security,” and the lawyers say simply possessing drugs prevents drug users from accessing vital services without fear of legal repercussions.

 

 

 

https://www.cheknews...tional-1171090/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 September 2023 - 02:56 AM.

[Nparker]

Don't all laws infringe on someone's rights?

Shakespeare was right. "First kill all the lawyers."

[Victoria Watcher]

Legalizing drugs has led to many problems

I am a retired police officer and to say I am incensed would be an understatement. Another senseless death of a peace officer. What can our government not understand?

World leaders in other countries have services and programs that seem to work when dealing with the mentally ill and drug addicted. Portugal is a leading example with these programs.

Legalizing drugs and advocating for safe supply is a danger to everyone — and especially our youth.

Please, please, please. We must set our focus on real change. Placating the vocal minority isn’t working.

Michael Drescher

Victoria


https://www.timescol...g-drugs-7617759

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 September 2023 - 05:59 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Seattle Times:





Why it's so hard for WA youth to get treatment for fentanyl use

Teens in Washington are simultaneously caught up in a progressively worse drug crisis and a system that increasingly fails to connect them with medical and social care. Here's how a lack of access to medication and stigma are impacting treatment options.




Notice the language? Kids are not making these choices, they are “being caught up”.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 September 2023 - 09:20 AM.

[Nparker]

We need more stigma and less acceptance of illicit drug use. The current policies have proven to be complete failures and young people are dying as a result.

[Victoria Watcher]

Senator Lee’s new report also reveals a less familiar finding—though it may not surprise those of us who study family matters: addiction is most common among young single and divorced men. Sixty-one percent of the adult population is married; that population makes up 28% of opioid overdose deaths. Never-married and divorced adults are a much smaller percentage of the population, 32% to be precise, but accounted for—take a deep breath—71% of opioid deaths. 

 

https://ifstudies.or...f opioid deaths.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Mike K.]

Drugs lead to marital breakups. She does alcohol abuse. So it’s likely in a lot of those instances that the problem already exists.

[Victoria Watcher]

Drugs lead to marital breakups. She does alcohol abuse. So it’s likely in a lot of those instances that the problem already exists.

 

Money issues lead to a lot of breakups.  So I suppose spending money on drugs and/or alcohol leads to those issues too.

[Beacon]

Drugs lead to marital breakups. She does alcohol abuse. So it’s likely in a lot of those instances that the problem already exists.

 

 

Money issues lead to a lot of breakups.  So I suppose spending money on drugs and/or alcohol leads to those issues too.

 

Add infidelity, communications issues, mis match of expectations for children, violence, abuse etc to the list.  Many reasons for divorce that are not in the stats.

 

But what is in the stat, married folks are 4x less likely to die from an opioid overdose.