Vancouver has universal health care, abundant addiction treatment and harm reduction, supervised drug consumption rooms, and a clinic that provides heroin. It also has the same opioid overdose death rate as West Virginia. Why? — @KeithNHumphreys
Captain Obvious, care to weigh in?
It just has to be insufficient funding.
Nothing a few more pretend jobs won’t fix.
Sigh……
“Convene a Royal Commission”
“Can we spend as much as we did on the Indian Chicks Killed by Unknown Native Assailants Commission ?”
“Don’t be a fool Humphreys… more…. much more”
Jenny Kwan needs another trip to Disneyland.
Oh my word. Now this is what I call burying the lede.
From Dr. Humphrey’s WaPo article:
“Thanks to a long-established, careful prescribing culture among patients and doctors, Quebec has the lowest rate of high-dose oxycodone and morphine prescribing in the country — less than half that in Vancouver — and less than a quarter of its opioid overdose death rate. Sensible supply control also means using law enforcement and diplomacy to disrupt the international production and delivery of fentanyl both here and abroad.”
To put it another way, West Virginia and Vancouver have high overdose rates because, as a matter of health policy, working-class white Americans and English Canadians who don’t need opiates to control pain are being deliberately addicted to opium, making them easy prey for the Chinese gangsters who import fentanyl into north America, and are being encouraged by their own governments to kill themselves with opium.
Why, doctor? White genocide. That’s why.
You probably have put two and two together. You won’t say so in the Washington Post, of course. You value your life. Pity the Deep State doesn’t value anybody’s.
Discuss.
The leftists have so mocked the “War on Drugs” through Hollywooden fables such as Blow, and Traffic that the general population now believes addicts have a “medical” problem instead of an “addiction” problem. So, they are treated like stray animals in need of a saucer full of heroin. And what happens when you start caring for strays? More of em show up on your doorstep. Perhaps we should also sterilize these human strays? Make sure they’re all … fixed … in more ways than one.
I saw Traffic on TV more than 10 years ago and thought it to be a dreadful rip-off of the British TV series Traffik. PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre ran the latter in the 1990s and it goes into much more detail about drug-smuggling than the movie did.
Darwin awards come to mind. Why stop the terminally stupid from being terminal, funerals are cheaper.
Hammer meets nail right on the head
Vancouver has better winters.
Yes, Kate. It also has a lot more Chinese gangsters, and is the port of entry for most importation of fentanyl into north America.
Plenty of places in the States with better winters than West Virginia—and better bus connections to the rest of the country.
Yes, well when are they going to hand out FREE needles to DIABETES sufferers who actually need them to, you know, STAY ALIVE!?!
Ah, ah, ah, stayin’ ALIVE!!! Geez no Bee Gees muzak in the background…harumph.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I am a proud listener of The Bee Gees. I am not ashamed. As awful as the disco era was … The Bee Gees kept it real.
“Better” in the sense that the climate there entices people of a sort that everywhere else still has more than enough of. I wish Vancouver’s climate could be improved.
Darwin’s Law at work. The Father in law has a great solution to the drug problem. Put a healthy supply of pure product on the street, free for the taking. The problem will resolve itself quickly, needless to say.
It’s not a crisis, it’s just thinning out the weak in the herd. The wrong headed approach in BC shows, that Killing the addict with kindness, works. The regime doesn’t like the old model of rehab, much like AA. It’s too mean and cruel, better to be codependent to the addict, maybe that will work better, while they continue their addictive dysfunctional ways.
The current system only favours all the government workers employed to hold the hand and rig of the addicts, it’s not designed to solve addiction, whatsoever. Clearly, the results, or lack of, emphasize that this is not designed to eliminate the problem, it just exacerbates it. Typical Leftwing liberal social policy.
Yup Dan, I’m like yer FIL, get the potent stuff, lots of it, and give it out.
The modern method also makes more pretend jobs, as someone put it so well.
Vancouver’s spending in this area has been, at best, an absolute waste of money. No doubt the city fathers have found the graft very helpful to their re-election campaigns, though.
The Politically incorrect answer would be to compare (WV & BC) DNA for Incest rates & risky behavior,,,, We know that WV has an inbred problem… Does BC have a similar problem in the English & Aboriginal blood lines?…..
No, “we” don’t know that at all.
Always safe to indulge in stereotypes about whites, isn’t it?
I find it rather irritating when people start to get aroused about incest.
Lots of it around, always. Doesn’t spoil a good gene if you get two copies of it. Brings defects visible and decreases fertility / fitness in the next generation. Has no bad statistical effect in the next generation after the incestuous one. Might expire your line though.
I recommend not to speak badly on children born from incest. I don’t want them aborted, they have the same rights to live as anyone. Human rights as libtards so often talk about.
I don’t recommend incest either, might be one of the worst deeds in the world to rape one’s minor daughter.
Because it is very easy to think you are “helping” when in fact you are only enabling.
Anything you do, to protect people from, or lessen the effects of, the consequences of their own decisions, is enablement, not helping.
The flip side of this, is protecting people from, or lessening the effect of, their good decisions. If you get a doubling of your pay check, and someone decides to triple your tax bill, what would that encourage you to do?
You should only get treatment if you have a job.
Drug dealers should be decapitated and their heads put on pikes.
There seems to be a concern about preventing death by this or that cause. Cancer, drug addiction, using aluminum ladders outdoors to do electrical repairs during rain storms – there are no end of worthy causes. Personally, people avoid me because I am thought to be insensitive. I feel left out. But I do care about how people die. I just need to find the right cause.
When I noticed that 92% of all deaths are caused by natural causes, a light went on. Society is tackling death from the wrong end of the statistical chart. Let us all get behind the “no more deaths by natural causes” movement. Embrace the idea that everyone who dies an unnatural death contributes to the reduction of this appalling statistic.
As I prepare to “shuffle off this mortal coil” I want this new cause to be my legacy. I emphatically do not want to see the words “RIP you insensitive bastard” chiseled on my tombstone.
So … we should remove the RIP?
Probably, unless RIP means “Rest in Pieces”.
Indeed, “Saaaaaaave Liiiiiives” is the blathering mantra of the Lowbrow mediots, and leftwing government dogooders, thinking they are gods unto themselves.
Nothing against someone reversing their bad/poor life habits and becoming a productive member of society, but, NO ONE, and NO government Busybody, can save anyone from themselves, no matter how much the busybodies convinve themselves that they are doing just that.
Only the addict can save themselves, because THEY are sick and tired of their dysfunctional ways. The lefties think their moral purity and preening can trump addicts belief systems. Instead, the addicts are using the dogooders to continue their abusive eays without end.
With no safe injection sites, you end up with a dead junkie in an alley somewhere.
But with safe injection sites….
You end up with a dead junkie in an alley somewhere.
It just may take longer.
And involve more virtue signalling via tax dollars.
And more localised crime around said sites. But hey, harm reduction.
The death rate from all causes is 100%. It has never changed. I’m as sure that it never will as I am of anything.
In the long run, the opioid/fentanyl crisis is self correcting. Yes, I’m an insensitive bastard.
But sensible, nonetheless.
Natural selection will fix stupid.
Just try to avoid the inevitable “collateral damage”.
Uhhm,
“If you build it, they will come”?
Government jobs are created along with the inevitable managers, directors, assistant deputy ministers, deputy ministers and ministers. Follow the money.
Progressive-ism is a disease. It kills.
Watch this video, your answer is there. There were a series of short (some long) videos under the name: ”Through The Blue Lens” I believe they were produced by Vancouver Police. Well worth watching.
https://youtu.be/mH1AYwXuR0M?list=PLz9Arjlar3mPW4iVnQMW0OMPMV2h0SBiS
PS: Drugs are illegal. Why are there no arrests??
Like when raising kids, you get more of what you allow and less of what you don’t.
The difference is that a Stray Cat Feeding Station is quite often sponsored by an animal protection society who round them up ,have them spayed and vaccinated and tested to see if they can be adopted out to homes and/or farms before being returned to their territory. This actually may be a good idea for legal injection sights too. 🙂