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.

  • Zoidsberg
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    2211 months ago

    Comparing nicotine addiction to opioid addiction is… Something.

    • @Woofcat@lemmy.ca
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      Meh, opioid addiction is a waste of our time. We should let them figure it out themselves. They’re all adults.

        • @Woofcat@lemmy.ca
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          -1911 months ago

          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.

          • ComradeSharkfucker
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            1311 months ago

            Yeah it’s entirely the individuals fault and not a societal failing or anything. Every other country also has this problem for sure

            • @Woofcat@lemmy.ca
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              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.

              • ComradeSharkfucker
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                1011 months ago

                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

                • @Woofcat@lemmy.ca
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                  Ah yes and everyone who has stolen food is just evil and should be jailed because they didn’t want to starve?

                  Ahh yes food and hard drugs are the same thing. Jesus give your head a shake. You don’t need to do drugs.

                  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.

                  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

                  • ComradeSharkfucker
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                    911 months ago

                    Oh I’m not referring to myself, I live quite well. I just think it’s shitty to let people rot when it’s so easy to help them. You have to be an incredibly bitter person to believe someone deserves death because they were desperate for some sort of comfort