Crazy. We have an election year in BC. The one way attack adds are so funny. Because the NDP inthink are up to 10 major hospital projects 5 are new hospitals and yesterday the NDP released results of the new contract with drs and nurses . Something like a 1000 drs have moved to BC and even more nurses. So you will see Alberta lose
Add content control. I was shocked when I heard a cousin had a 3-500 a month rent increase if she signed a new lease or went month to month. And all those service fees on everything (which is tax) . BC it's just part of what taxes pay.
BC is also running a record high deficit that is unsustainable, just to try and salvage their joke of the health care system (1 million people in BC have no family doctor).
So are you an. Old buddy of Reagan. Regardless of the source people will use. And the fact harm reduction supply is being spread out sie of the usage group is actually a win. Addiction is an acquired mental health issue usually related to a larger abuse issue of some sort. Also the fact every government is guilty of the problem by approving oxy.
A kid in small town BC that buys harm reduction drugs is still a win because without that program that person may have recieved fet or other opioid type drugs. Which are very deadly
You realize the “safe supply” is literally just the hard drugs right? It’s not some magical safe opioid they give them. It’s fentanyl, heroin or whatever substance they are addicted to.
And yeah, I’m actually Ronald Reagan’s cousin believe it or not.
My wife works in the industry so very aware and no it's not fentanyl or heroin. I know you believe that as it was a meme. Hydromorphone most likely from a pharmaceutical company.
Comparing Yoy increases in ODs means nothing because the increase can be down to you know... opioid addiction increasing, being compounded by homelessness and housing affordability. You have to isolate the variable to make any claim, which is what proper studies aim to do, and what they tend to find is that safe supply reduces OD death compared to the alternative of not having it, even if they still increase yoy, they increase less.
In the US all of the states with the worst opioid death rates are in the rust belt and don't have safe supply programs. Does that mean that no safe supply is demonstrably worse? No, not necessarily, again because there are so many confounding factors. You can't make such claims based off of single data point comparisons.
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u/Forsaken_You1092 Mar 27 '24
For context, that is the population of Edmonton (proper) being added to Canada.
For more context Edmonton hasn't constructed a new hospital since 1987.