Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

The Canadian government is giving fentanyl to homeless drug addicts. Why? Because that's what they said they wanted

This is where San Francisco is headed with its sinister supervised drug site

filtermag.org/medical-safe-s…

"An entirely new safe supply protocol has resulted, developed in collaboration with the people using it—with higher doses, lower barriers and a trio of fentanyl products, including one that’s injectable. SAFER started outreach to [homeless] encampments immediately..."

In other words, the goal is maintain the addiction of people whose addiction caused their homelesseness

The goal is not to get people into addiction recovery, where they can restore their dignity, and independence

The goal is to keep homeless addicts homeless addicts.

Naturally this involved a corruption of the scientific process:

"In June 2020, the federal Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) funded the Victoria SAFER Initiative to design a flexible safe supply program in British Columbia, implement it and quantify that it worked."

Get that? The goal of the program was not to "test whether or not it worked" but rather to "quantify that it worked."

The so-called researchers are in fact radical Left-libertarian activists who believe it is our moral duty to provide homeless drug addicts with fentanyl

At first the idea was to help homeless addicts avoid dope sickness, but then researchers realized that a lot addicts didn't just want to avoid dope sickness. A lot of them wanted to get high. After all, that's probably why many of them started using drugs in the first place

And so the pro-addiction activists re-wrote the protocol so that it is a more "flexible model."

"It moves services closer to harm reduction not just by reducing medical barriers, but by adding something that was missing: choice."

Choice to use fentanyl! Good times!

the great new social injustice identified by Canadian pro-addiction activists is that homeless addicts didn't have enough choice in the free drugs that the government gave them.

"If they want fentanyl, by golly, they shall have fentanyl!"

At taxpayer's expense, naturally

But surely the "safe supply" of fentanyl is only for addicts? Nope! Anyone should have access!

"SAFER’s guidance states explicitly that participants are not required nor expected to access medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), like methadone."

The problem with the earlier protocol for keeping homeless addicts homeless addicts is that the doses were too low!

"But while the new options were holding some of the participants, others were still clearly being underdosed."

Can't make it up!

Don't be a square! We have to think outside the box!

“We needed something outside the box, compared to what people were using,” Ranger said. “To try to actually make an impact on this drug poisoning crisis, we were going to fight fentanyl with fentanyl.”

"SAFER now offers three fentanyl products. Fentora tablets can be smoked or dissolved under the tongue, sort of like a fizzy Suboxone. Prescribers can dose up to 2,000 mcg twice a day; potentially higher if needed."

Next up: fentanyl vending machines at homeless camps!

Win trust through drug giveaways!

"The sufentanil injections have been a particularly effective entry point for new participants, who agree to come into the program because they’re curious about sufentanil, and who go on to build relationships and connect to other services."

Still more work to do to make it easier for addicts to get free fentanyl!

"One agenda item for this year is lowering the barriers around the fentanyl products, including making the patches accessible through pharmacies so participants don’t always have to come into the clinic."

Why not just deliver the fentanyl directly to homeless addicts? Done!

"For a time, the team was conducting outreach deliveries. There’s constant demand, especially among participants facing mobility barriers, but SAFER hasn’t had the staffing resources to keep it up."

The biggest problem? Lack of staff to deliver the drugs!

“Probably the most morally distressing thing is knowing we have a finite capacity, and that we could help more people if we could reach more people,” Ranger said.

Isn't all of this really just a highly unethical medical experiment on some of the most vulnerable members of our society?

Heck no! They hired an "ethicist" who said it would be immoral *not* to give people fentanyl! So you can just relax.

Can't? Have some fentanyl.

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P.S. This is where progressives in New York and San Francisco are taking us: the direct delivery of medically pure fentanyl to people who don't even need to be addicts. Proving your addiction is just another barrier in the way of "choice"

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