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[todd]

 

TC / THE CANADIAN PRESS

DECEMBER 27, 2016 12:00 AM

Prescription opioid use grew in B.C. ahead of overdose crisis: study

 

VANCOUVER - The number of people using prescription opioids long-term in British Columbia was growing at a "silent but steady" rate for years before the current overdose crisis erupted, a new study has found.

 

Researchers at the University of British Columbia show that between 2005 and 2012, there was a steady increase in the use of prescription opioids for treatment periods lasting three months or longer, excluding cancer treatment or end-of-life care. ...................

 

................. see more:  http://www.timescolo...study-1.5519816

Edited by todd, 28 December 2016 - 06:30 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

I find very few links between prescription opioid use by "housed" and mentally stable people, and the homeless/marginal society.  As much as everyone wants to blame that.

[VicHockeyFan]

Accumulate.

 

VHF, you are a non-stop font of surprises, and need to calculate for us what the proposed weekly rate would be that would permit accumulation.

 

Oh, the weekly rate would be the same as the current rate, pro-rated, plus an extra $5/week, a bonus for switching over to the weekly system.

 

Current system:

 

$825 comes in on Wednesday the 26th of July.  $550 goes to your rent immediately by set-up.  So now you have $275 for the month of August (or until cheque day, the 23rd of August).  Budget poorly, and you could be out of money well before the 23rd of August.   

 

My system:

 

On the 26th of July you get $67 cash and $550 goes to your landlord for August.  On the 2nd of August you get $67.  And also on the 9th, 16th and 23rd.  If you save $10 each pay period, you have $50 still on the 30th, when you get another $67.  You are never more than 7 days away from money.  

[todd]

I find very few links between prescription opioid use by "housed" and mentally stable people, and the homeless/marginal society.  As much as everyone wants to blame that.

 

Do we have any data/way to differentiate between the housed/mentally stable, homeless/mentally stable, homeless/marginal society, housed/mentally unstable, housed/marginal society, homeless/mentally unstable, homeless/mentally unstable/marginal society, etc.  overdose deaths?

[VicHockeyFan]

Do we have any data/way to differentiate between the housed/mentally stable, homeless/mentally stable, homeless/marginal society, housed/mentally unstable, housed/marginal society, homeless/mentally unstable, homeless/mentally unstable/marginal society, etc.  overdose deaths?

 

Nope.   We do have Don Evans saying that of the 260 visits to the safe injection pod in the past week, not a single person has been referred to counselling or rehab.  So we spent $2,000 just on salary at the pod last week with no positive results to show for that $2,000.

[todd]

Nope.   We do have Don Evans saying that of the 260 visits to the safe injection pod in the past week, not a single person has been referred to counselling or rehab.  So we spent $2,000 just on salary at the pod last week with no positive results to show for that $2,000.

Do we have any data/way to differentiate between the housed/mentally stable, homeless/mentally stable, homeless/marginal society, housed/mentally unstable, housed/marginal society, homeless/mentally unstable, homeless/mentally unstable/marginal society, etc. of the visits?

[VicHockeyFan]

No. The highly skilled staff was not tasked with stats keeping.

I'm also not sure how heroin works. All the talk you have with the user before they inject does all that stay in their memory for the next day etc?

[todd]

No. The highly skilled staff was not tasked with stats keeping.

I'm also not sure how heroin works. All the talk you have with the user before they inject does all that stay in their memory for the next day etc?

My only opiate(opioid) experience(prescription oxycontin) was when I had my wisdom teeth out, I remember everything before, after and during.

 

I think most substances as long as you get it in before the effect has taken, when woke from wisdom teeth was carrying on same conversation that had left off mid sentence but with another nurse.

Edited by todd, 28 December 2016 - 10:01 PM.

[UDeMan]

Saw this on the global news today.  So saving them with naloxone isn't really saving them.

 

 

http://globalnews.ca...g-brain-damage/

 

While many lives have been lost to the fentanyl crisis, those who are fortunate enough to survive an overdose often suffer serious brain damage with little chance of making a full recovery.

 

 

Dorscheid said about 90 per cent of fentanyl overdose patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) have suffered brain trauma they will not recover from even though many received the life-saving antidote naloxone, also known as Narcan.

[sebberry]

http://www.nanaimobu.../408626825.html

 

A large white tent housing an unsanctioned supervised consumption site has forced the closure of two municipal buildings in Nanaimo.

Nanaimo City Hall and the adjacent Service and Resource Centre were shut down earlier today and the majority of city employees told to remain at home.

[VicHockeyFan]

It's curious how the article describes the fire as (a heat source).

[todd]

It's curious how the article describes the fire as (a heat source).

Which article are you referring to?

 

 

fire

ˈfī(ə)r/

noun

 

1.

combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke.

 

Edited by todd, 29 December 2016 - 03:29 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

The TC article on the drug shack in Nanaimo. Curious choice of words.

[todd]

The TC article on the drug shack in Nanaimo. Curious choice of words.

 

http://www.timescolo...-vows-1.5796288

[Nparker]

I am puzzled how 2 members of Nanaimo's City Council thought they could put this together without any authority or approval.

...Nanaimo City Councillor Gord Fuller, who hatched the idea for the supervised site, says the open flame is no longer an issue as they’ve since brought in an electric heater to address that concern. “There’s a huge amount of overreaction about what’s going on here and I think people are taking things to an extreme that’s totally unnecessary,” says Fuller...the ‘pop-up’ supervised injection site is making the city safer. He says the hill just behind the site is a known place where people shoot drugs. Fuller says they plan to keep the ‘pop-up’ site going until Island Health opens one...[Nanaimo City Manager Tracy] Samra called a council meeting this afternoon at 1 p.m. to seek further direction from City Council. Only three councillors were able to attend...

http://www.cheknews....oncerns-250105/

"Hatched" is "le mot juste" since this is a bird-brained idea at best. Our civic governments are being overrun by SJW fools.

[todd]

29. Under subsection 99(2) of the Customs Act, a border services officer may not open any mail item that weighs 30 grams or less, unless the addressee or sender has given the authorization to do so.

 

http://cbsa-asfc.gc..../d5-1-1-eng.pdf

 

........Buyers are assured their package won’t get seized at the Canadian border. To avoid the risk of detection, says a supplier from China, he conceals the purchase alongside urine test strips. Not that there’s reason to worry: Canadian border guards cannot open packages weighing less than 30 grams without the consent of the recipient. (A Globe and Mail reporter corresponded with sellers and suppliers using a pseudonym and did not disclose himself as a journalist, in order to obtain accurate information from the seller.)............ http://www.theglobea...rticle29570025/

 

.........Premier Christy Clark has called on the Canada Border Services Agency to screen all small packages for fentanyl. The agency cannot open packages weighing less than 30 grams without the consent of the recipient.

 

CBSA has not changed its policies, but said in a statement that it is “aware of the risk that fentanyl poses and continues to look at ways to enhance detection capabilities and tools to interdict illicit drugs at the border, including in the postal stream.”..........

 

http://www.theprovin...9925/story.html

 

https://www.reddit.c...g_a_30g_letter/

Just to inform some Canadian.

I've got a letter in Canada from Customs saying they received a letter under 30g weight, and they wish to inspect it. But they explain, by the the law they are not allowed to open it unless I sign an approbation letter.

I replied to the email contact on the letter, saying I was not aware of any letter coming from that region, and to send back to sender. They replied they cannot send back unless they open it. (with my signature that was also making me the "importer" in legal terms in the letter). again of course I didn't sign that.

But they also said that If I don't give further notice, they simply give the letter to Canadapost after 30 days, and the letter get destroyed.

I tried to find info on the net about it, saw many talk about <30g canada letters, but heres just a bit more infor that I could find if It can be of any help or concern to anybody.     https://www.reddit.c...g_a_30g_letter/

 

WTF? Maybe good starting point for stemming the flow   maybe not just for drugs. http://greencross.or...ss/fentanyl.php    http://www.purechems...ylfentanyl.html    http://www.theresearchchemicals.com/

Edited by todd, 29 December 2016 - 08:26 PM.

[Nparker]

It appears that at least part of "Our Place" will be getting a taxpayer-funded makeover to accommodate the SCS

...Island Health...says its application for 941 Pandora Avenue, near Our Place Society, was couriered to the federal health ministry earlier today. The building is owned by Island Health and already offers a range of health and substance use services. The facility -- to be called the Pandora Community Health Centre -- will require extensive renovations to accommodate drug consumption services, including access points, a reception area, and a post-use area...

http://www.iheartrad...-site-1.2309548

 

[todd]

New BC coroners service illicit drug overdose deaths in BC report released  ----- January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2016

 

http://www2.gov.bc.c...llicit-drug.pdf

 

 

http://www2.gov.bc.c...llicit-drug.pdf

Edited by todd, 18 January 2017 - 03:16 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

Despite all the education, all the new safe consumption, deaths are way up again.  

[http]

I note that over the last year, the HA region with the smallest increase in overdose deaths in the face of the flood is the one with a long-established supervised injection site.

 

Interior 63 156 148%
Fraser 208 301 45%
Vancouver Coastal 154 253 64%
Vancouver Island 60 155 158%
Northern 25 49 96%
BC 510 914 79%
 

VHF, there's a new player in town. Downplaying education and supervised consumption as ineffective is naive oversimplification.

 

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