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[Victoria Watcher]

Henry says some doctors are still encouraging patients to quit doing drugs, which shows a lack of understanding of the complex issues at work.

 

“Abstinence is an important treatment modality for people who have addictions to alcohol, but it does not work for opioid addiction, because it is a chronic, relapsing brain disease. And we know that abstinence is, especially in the same ways that we did it with alcohol, just doesn’t work for people who have a dependency on opioids,” Henry said.

 

https://vancouver.ci...-opioid-crisis/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2024 - 02:39 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Profiting from despair — how decriminalization advocates exploited B.C.’s opioid crisis: Full Comment podcast


https://nationalpost...s-opioid-crisis




Wow, follow the money here:



Prof, former public health officer launch company to produce legal heroin for treatment

https://www.theglobe...-produce-legal/







Fair Price Pharma Inc. (FPP) is a not-for-profit company founded and run by two British Columbia doctors. Dr. Perry Kendall, a former provincial health officer, and Dr. Martin Schechter have led extensive research on the effective use of diacetylmorphine and related substances.

https://www.theorca....-crisis-6400776

When you all have moment, put that podcast on for a listen. Stunning.

[Nparker]

Bonnie Henry needs to have her medical license revoked.

[dasmo]

Sounds like a pusher, oh, wait….
gaps.

“If anybody’s had fentanyl, it’s a great drug and [I] certainly had it when I had a colonoscopy not that long ago and you can see why people feel good on this drug and physical dependence on opioids can happen very quickly. And that’s one of the things that we work on,” Henry said.

“We work on with surgeons, for example, giving people small amounts of opioids for pain after surgery, because you can get physically dependent on it very quickly. But for some people, it’s that physical and mental dependence that happens and then it becomes you need more just to see it start to continue to feel normal.”

[Victoria Watcher]

In the podcast they say that Henry says it’s impossible to end an opioid dependency. I say malarkey.

[Victoria Watcher]

I implore people to take the 40 minutes to listen to that Natuonal Post podcast.

[dasmo]

My buddy, who had a major injury, was on opioids (lives in America). They wrote him off to always be on em. He got off “train spotting style” he said. Weed helped. He would be messed up if he didn’t.

[Victoria Watcher]

The number of toxic drug-related deaths in B.C. saw a decrease of 11 per cent from the year before, but there were still 192 people who died due to the ongoing public health emergency.

 

In March 2024, the 192 deaths is a decrease from March 2023, when 215 people died. B.C.’s Coroner Service says this amounts to 6.2 deaths per day.

 

“For British Columbians between 10 and 59, unregulated drug toxicity is the leading cause of death, accounting for more deaths than homicides, suicides, accidents and natural disease combined,” the coroner service says in a news release.

 

 

https://www.cheknews...deaths-1202903/

[Nparker]

For British Columbians between 10 and 59, unregulated drug toxicity untreated opioid addiction is the leading cause of death. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Recent comments from BC's top doctor Dr. Bonnnie Henry was quoted in a media report saying abstinence-based recovery is not possible for opiate addicts, and they should not stop using drugs.  We need your support in helping Dr. Bonnie understand the harms caused by these polarizing comments that are not based on evidence, and people's lived experiences. 

 

 

https://act.newmode....-4-action-items

 

 

 

 

 

Health officer advises B.C. to offer smokable fentanyl in report backing safer supply

 

https://toronto.city...g-safer-supply/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add heroin, fentanyl to safer supply, Henry says

 

https://www.timescol...ry-says-8199249

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2024 - 09:52 AM.

[Nparker]

"Dr." Henry has either been paid by Big Phama/drug lords or is an addict herself. There can be no other logical reason for her inane stance on addiction.

[Victoria Watcher]

"Dr." Henry has either been paid by Big Phama/drug lords or is an addict herself. 

 

 

 

See previous posts, Dr. Kendall, her predecessor, wants to be the safe supplier.  He started a private company to make the safe supply.

[Nparker]

#clownworld - collusion edition

[Victoria Watcher]

And his former deputy runs the safe supply vending machines, with his private company.

[Mike K.]

Wait, hold on.

The former health officer is now running a safe-supply supply company and is associated to safe supply vending machines?

Dr. Henry is a partner is a winery. I also don’t think that substances that kill you, should be on a health officer’s investment portfolio.

[dasmo]

Kinda reminds me of THX with the violations against the mandatory drug intake.... 

 

A charitable society founded by a Vernon lab tech who lost her job along with hundreds of other B.C. health-care workers who refused the COVID-19 vaccine has launched a class-action lawsuit against provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

A notice of civil claim brought under the Class Proceedings Act by Terri Perepolkin and Jedediah Ferguson was filed Oct.13 in BC Supreme Court in Victoria.

Perepolkin says she hasn't worked since the mandate at the start of the COVID pandemic and that she and her husband sold their home to afford life on a single paycheque. Meanwhile, she has been home schooling their children.

Perepolkin and others were fired two years ago after holding out against the vaccine.

Bill C19 maintains that health-care workers must have a minimum of two immunization shots. B.C. is the last remaining province with the mandate, and Perepolkin says it's past time it was dropped.

"I started a non-profit society for all B.C. health-care workers who were also affected by the mandates," she says.

The United Health Care Workers of BC currently has 107 members, and Perepolkin hopes to bring in all those terminated once the class action is certified.

"Dr. Henry is still requiring the first two COVID shots to work in health care in B.C. – even though she has admitted that all workers who have the first two shots no longer have any protection from them," Perepolkin claims.

 

https://www.castanet...Vernon-lab-tech

[Victoria Watcher]

Wait, hold on.

The former health officer is now running a safe-supply supply company and is associated to safe supply vending machines?

Dr. Henry is a partner is a winery. I also don’t think that substances that kill you, should be on a health officer’s investment portfolio.

Listen to the damn podcast I linked.

[Mike K.]

Sorry, I’ll get right on that, pronto.

[JimV]

The only explanation I can think of for the recent activities of Bonnie Henry and Perry Kendall is that they’re too close to the issue, they can’t see the forest for the trees.  Their concern seems focused on the addicts, not on society and the attendant social harm.

 

And the constant harping from them, as well as others, that it’s a medical not a criminal, problem is a myopic perception of the problem.  Almost everything associated with drug addiction has a criminal dimension.  “Harm reduction” may result in a few fewer OD deaths, although even that is doubtful.  But it certainly leads to social disorder, violence, extremely negative effects on innocent people, growth of the addict population and all sorts of criminality.  That’s the part the general population cares about and our “experts” just don’t seem to get it or don’t care.

[JimV]

And one other thing:  Public use may now be banned again but Eby and his cohorts have touched the tar baby.  Enforcing the new rules (i.e. it is once again illegal to use illegal substances in except when it’s not too illegal) is going to be a confusing, discretionary and entirely unsatisfactory exercise.  The public will soon realize this no matter how much the authorities try to sugar coat it.  Eby and the NDP will never be able to wash it off their hands.