Since the congregation took naloxone training in March, there’s been seven outside St. Albans. But that number is quite modest. At the drop-in centre beneath the church, where some of Ottawa’s most afflicted seek daytime refuge once the overnight shelters close, they’re doing at least one [naloxone application] a day.
Sure, but people quit addictions all the time. Smoking is on a massive decline, drinking too. Somehow the drug that can kill you in an instant is so popular that churches are handing out kits to save them. Insanity.
Comparing nicotine addiction to opioid addiction is… Something.
Meh, opioid addiction is a waste of our time. We should let them figure it out themselves. They’re all adults.
You don’t understand why people are addicted to drugs
I think you don’t understand it. These people made a choice to start using drugs and got addicted. It sucks but they made that choice.
Not sure why the rest of society needs to pay for their shitty decisions.
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re serious or not
100% serious why should I care about drug addicts and criminals killing themselves? Let them.
Wild
Should I rush to stop someone who wants to do bad things to themselves? They’re an adult.
What no materialist analysis does to a mfer
Who hurt you?
No one. Just tired of enabling the scourge of our society and disproportionately investing in people who elect to be a drain on us all. Destroying our downtowns and making everyone unsafe.
Yeah it’s entirely the individuals fault and not a societal failing or anything. Every other country also has this problem for sure
Society made them do illegal drugs? Ohh boy I guess no one has any agency. We’re all children and need the state to help us.
Ah yes and everyone who has stolen food is just evil and should be jailed because they didn’t want to starve? Material conditions can substantial alter people’s decision making. If youre stuck in the cycle of poverty knowing very well you aren’t making it out, why not do hard drugs? You’re never making it anywhere anyway.
Would you have said it was every individual Chinese person fault that they had an opium epidemic and not the British and Chinese administration for allowing the production and trade of opium to be so prevalent? Yes people have agency but if you trap someone in a box and put some heroin in it they’ll do it eventually
Ahh yes food and hard drugs are the same thing. Jesus give your head a shake. You don’t need to do drugs.
We are 14th in the world for mobility. So how do you figure you’re stuck. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
I sincerely hope you never try opioids.
Yes, it’s crazy how overpowering these drugs are. They’ll completely take over someone’s life