I suggest you read all of that Coroner's service report. Your ignorance of the problem is profound.
actually both of us have shown we've conducted research of the topic
The largest insult of your post is being astonished that sometimes they have to be revived several times. It shows a shallow, judgemental attitude toward a disease sweeping through our culture; you seem to want to blame the addict like the 1920's
There is no one else to blame other than the addict, I didn't put a gun to anyone's head and force them to take opioids, did anybody? Judgemental or not, no one person is worth endless amounts of resources, so asking how many times we should be reviving people before that revival should come with arrest and court mandated treatment is definitely something policy makers should consider.
In closing, this conversation originated about "Insight" the harm reduction program a Canadian hater poster who used Fentanyl deaths to suggest Insight is a failure. Typical conservative ignorance and stupidity, and why I get so ****ing tired of the ignorance.
I don't hate Canada, so that's a non-sequitur.
Fentanyl is a pill, sometimes a capsule. Insight is a harm reduction primarily for injection users. The only think fentanyl and heroin is they both kill.
Fentanyl is an opioid just like heroin, in fact it is often mixed with heroin and then injected. Or it is taken by people who also inject heroin. It's the same demographic using both, also the medical response to both is exactly same. administration of nalaxone. It's a distinction without a difference. Since the same demographic is using both drugs then encouraging any use of opioids is encouraging use of fentanyl, and that's why Vancouver metro has a hair under a thousand overdose deaths while similar metro areas in the US have a third to a quarter that number. San Diego county which you brought up earlier, the most recent numbers I can find show 90 opioid over dose deaths in a county with a million more people then the Vancouver Metro.
When you encourage people to just hang out and use drugs and not seek treatment, you leave them addicted to drugs, and insight is only open during the day, so what if you want to shoot smack at midnight? you're going to do it and not be under medical supervision. to claim it is a success because nobody has died "at" the safe use site is completely dishonest, it is creating an acceptable drug culture which is leading to more deaths. We see this from Insites own numbers, which show less then 250 people out of 6,500 visitors last year completed treatment, someone who's enabled to get high doesn't want treatment, they need to hit bottom before they decide to take it. Not only that the downtown eastside is an open air drug bazaar, complete with rampant property crime, drug dealing, and all the the problems that go with it.
For the record, Insight has been a huge success, it's model is now being followed in Toronto, Paris, and other European cities.
Well with a hair under 1000 opioid deaths a year I dispute the method of determining success.
