‘We’re not doing enough’: Felicella on B.C. overdose deaths

B.C. officials provide an update on the increasing number of overdose deaths in the province as the toll has reached 10,000 since 2016.

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29 comments

  1. ….did they not just legalize “recreational” drug use. maybe it just doesn’t work here.

    1. Why would that work? They’re just making the addicts more comfortable. It takes being UNCOMFORTABLE for someone to decide to change. Addiction 101. Makes me wonder if their intention is really to help.

    2. @Ashatan Yep, if you remove all the negative consequences, there is no reason to change behaviors.

    1. And what has free drugs for junkies, free market for drug traffickers in Canada and free services for junkies created?? Millions of tax payer money thrown into this industry and everyday there are more and more junkies

  2. Maybe if they got them off the drugs instead of giving them all the drugs they want. That might help a little bit

  3. Safe legal access to clean drugs. Not a free for all of tainted Street drugs. Alcoholics don’t have to worry about being poisoned by fentanyl laced booze.

    1. Or possibly help them get off? The more comfortable they make them the more they’re taking away their potential to reach some sort of bottom.

  4. This is why countries are Nationalizing resources, Russia-France-Bolivia-Mexico. It adds $$$$ into the Public sector, housing-healthcare etc….

  5. A welfare state is a recipe for disaster. Illicit drugs are a dead-end street. Life is full of choices.

  6. In Vancouver, in order to deal with the overdose problem they have to deal with the homeless problem and vice versa. You can’t fix one without fixing the other. And NO ONE is doing ANYTHING to deal with homelessness.

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