the provincial government is CHOOSING to let this continue indefinitely
THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH
this is a supply chain issue.
"Preliminary data suggests that the proportion of illicit drug toxicity deaths for which illicit fentanyl was detected (alone or in combination with other drugs) was approximately 76% in 2022 and 85% in 2021."
IF YOU DON'T REPLACE THE ENTIRE ILLICIT DRUG SUPPLY WITH REGULATED SUBSTANCES IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE, AND MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE. FOREVER.
could someone mention that
the Death Panel Review found that 73% of decedents used daily, and 13% occasionally (14% 🤷?)
"treatment beds" wouldnt save the 22 people who died in february who used drugs once in a while. a regulated drug supply, with no prescription required would. www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/bir…
there isnt a finite population of people who use drugs! people start, stop, experiment, re-start all the time! LIKE AT THE TAIL END OF A PANDEMIC AS THEYRE ABANDONED BY GOVERNMENT IN A MASS TRAUMA, MASS DISABLING, MASS CASUALTY EVENT
if not for the toxicity, i'd recommend drugs.
people will use drugs because YOU failed, @bcndp. you failed to protect people. you failed to mitigate harm. you lied. and you failed your duty to the public.
every death is a policy failure. YOUR policy, YOUR failure.
for example
WHY HAVENT YOU ADDRESSED CHEQUE DAY
(people will use drugs because you broke the health system and everyone is going to quit because of the moral injury you have committed upon them,
and nobody has a doctor anyhow)
it is going to get worse and you will pretend its not happening because you believe This will never be a ballot issue
because otherwise this will get worse and the government is poisoning the future, right now, today, killing six more people, today, day 2,190 of this emergency
if you care about cities, you need to understand the ways in which they cause harm - and reduce it. you can use your positions to help people stay safe. planners can literally create space for excluded people from your discourse. @Jay_Pitter explains this
i keep asking and its a real question, what are cities for?
remember when the vaccine was first available and everyone had to find a doctor to prescribe it but most docs said, "no i think you might enjoy it"
so lots of people had to buy bathtub vax on the street and you could smoke it or inject but if the truckers saw you they would honk their horns and throw their children at you. confusing times. remember that
turned out it wasn't homemade vaccine, it was just bacon grease. so everyone died.
austerity logic choosing who lives and who will die is a capitalist nightmare, it's awful
this is endgame of the I GOT MINE approach of both the emergency response and the "it's all about me" advocacy grounded in individual experience (which is not social justice or public health, and will not change the system); yes it's neoliberal capitalism
MacEwan is the former head of psychiatry at st pauls and currently is the psych at the downtown community court. he's also on the board of BCS. and the Odd Squad.