• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    This is how addiction, disability and poverty are seen by the people in charge of dealing with those issues.

  • The article really shows a fundamental lack of knowledge and misunderstanding by Doug, however he still states “They say that the safe injection sites help and everything; well, the numbers don’t show that,” he said. "

    When the evidence shows the exact opposite.

    “i think Mr. Ford actually needs to be briefed by the Ministry of Health about the positive impacts of supervised consumption sites — we do know that where they are located, we’ve seen a reduction in overdose deaths and they are effective at reducing the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C,” said Zoë Dodd, co-organizer of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society.

    Doug was being a compulsive liar, as per usual.

  • drewaustin@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    This is very true. None of his monied interest “friends” have sold him the idea yet. Now maybe if the consumption site had some fancy spa and and a parking lot under Lake Ontario, that would get us a site in no time.