About Harm Reduction programs is they way they help addicts get off the street and into rehab.
A woman in her birthday suite chased down the street while getting tasered by another woman in NDP Liberal Harm Reduction Paradise Vancouver Nothing Unusual pic.twitter.com/Qf8c5RJFEZ
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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying now accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in Canada. It took 90 years, but Tommy Douglas final got his way. (Please down load the PDF and save it; it’s sure to disappear)
SDA regular Gord Magill discusses The Machine in Life and Death, a deep dive into Canada’s euthanasia law and how it is being promoted.
Don’t go giving them ideas.
Telegraph- Global deaths from assisted dying surpass 30,000 in a year
The increase was recorded across countries where assisted dying and euthanasia is legal, including the Netherlands, Belgium, and the US states of California and Oregon. In Canada, an estimated one in 25 people who died last year were legally killed.
End stage socialized medicine;
These issues are significant. They stem from incomplete documentation of MAID requests to broken safeguards and potentially even non-consensual euthanasia. A quarter of all Ontario euthanasia providers received at least one compliance issue in 2023, though not a single provider was reported to the police, not even the provider who administered a death that the chief coroner described as “a blatant situation” where “the family and the deceased person suffered tremendously.”
On Oct. 27, a British Columbia judge intervened to prevent Dr. Ellen Wiebe, or any other doctor, from causing the death of a mentally ill Alberta woman. Justice Simon Coval granted a 30-day injunction to the woman’s common-law partner, one day before her death was scheduled to take place at Wiebe’s Vancouver clinic. A civil claim alleges Wiebe approved the woman’s request for MAID after a single Zoom meeting and without consulting her doctors. Wiebe declined to comment when contacted by National Post.
National Post- Ontario man granted euthanasia for controversial ‘post COVID-19 vaccination syndrome’
Identified as “Mr. A,” the man experienced “suffering and functional decline” following three vaccinations for SARS-CoV-2. He also suffered from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and personality disorders, and, “while navigating his physical symptoms,” was twice admitted to hospital, once involuntarily, with thoughts of suicide.
National Post- Nova Scotia woman was asked if she knew about assisted dying before mastectomy surgery for breast cancer
patients have reported feeling ‘badgered and harassed’ to consider MAID
National Post- Assisted suicide lawsuit uses Charter challenge to go after Charter right to MAID
The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of disability activists — and two people with disabilities themselves — argues that allowing people with disabilities to die violates the Charter protections available to all other Canadians and may induce them to end their lives prematurely, based solely upon their disability.
UnHerd- Over 5,000 US children have undergone transgender surgeries
At the same time, there was a steep increase in the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and a surge in gender dysphoria diagnoses, Reuters found. But the new data from Do No Harm reveals that the industry is larger than previously known, and it’s quickly growing despite state-level restrictions. The reported surgeries brought in more than $108 million during the five year period.
Clinton Foundation, Trudeau Foundation … they all serve the same purpose;
The CDC created an associated nonprofit foundation that enables the agency to take money from pharma.
In the last 10 years, companies such as Pfizer and Merck have paid over $100 million.
The donor list is hundreds of companies making direct bribes.
Blacklock’s- Gambling’s Up, Senators Told
Gambling addiction in Canada has worsened since Parliament legalized single event sports betting three years ago, researchers have told the Senate.
“Seven percent of Canadians met the criteria for problem gambling,” Matthew Young, researcher for the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, told the Senate transport and communications committee. “Rates of problem gambling are even higher among younger Canadians aged 18 to 34 reaching 15 percent,” added Young.
About safe supply is how it saves lives while drying up demand for dangerous street drugs: “Government Heroin” documentary exposes rampant safer supply fraud
In the film, Callum explains how, three years ago, a friend informed him that drug users in the city were receiving “insane” amounts of free safer supply drugs – predominantly hydromorphone, an opioid as potent as heroin. While these drugs are meant to wean addicts off riskier street substances, the friend explained that recipients mostly sell their safer supply at bargain prices so they can procure stronger substances, such as illicit fentanyl.
At first, Callum thought this was a joke. He had been struggling with a moderate addiction to pharmaceutical opioids – mostly oxycodone and Percocet – but, as these pills were expensive and hard to find, his drug use remained stable. The idea that the government was showering individuals with hundreds of powerful opioid pills a month, for free and with essentially no supervision, seemed “almost like a dream for a drug addict.”
But then he connected with some safer supply clients and realized that everything that he had heard was true.
A walk down memory lane, with Ed Driscoll, because there’s nothing more “relatable” than hypocrite elites who have one set of rules for themselves, and another for you.
Follow the money: Clinical trial ‘guinea pigs’ say they’re incentivized to lie
Private companies in Canada are recruiting thousands of often economically desperate test subjects each year, using incentives that some experts say are both exploitative and push participants to lie.
____________________________________________________________________________Seized with anxiety after days of painful cramps and bloody stool, Franco answered a call from the research company that had been dosing him with an experimental medication in exchange for money.
A staffer told him their tests showed one of his organs was inflamed and that a doctor needed to examine him.
“Is this something, like, permanent?” Franco asked.
“I’m not a doctor,” said the staffer. “I can give you the basic information of what I know … Because of the results that we got, you can’t continue on the trial, OK?”
“I mean, I don’t have an option, right?” Franco replied.
Like many professional clinical trial participants, Franco normally stays quiet about the side effects he experiences. He only gets paid in full if he completes the entire study. Leaving early because of an adverse reaction means he’ll forfeit more than $15,000.
Private companies in Canada are recruiting thousands of often economically desperate test subjects each year, using incentives that some experts say are both exploitative and push participants to lie. When that happens, data that Health Canada uses to approve drugs for the marketplace can be compromised.
Franco and his peers are part of an underground society of so-called “professional guinea pigs” lured by cash, referral bonuses, loyalty points, and other perks advertised by private companies to encourage
them to sell their bodies for pharmaceutical research. […]The government’s inspections of the trials themselves are limited. While Health Canada approves more than 1,000 trials every year, only a small fraction is inspected.
In a statement, Health Canada said it rigorously oversees clinical trials and works to protect the health and safety of participants.
The health agency said it aims to publish new regulations in spring 2025 that will “align with international best practices regarding trial oversight,” including changes that “would result in direct regulatory oversight of third parties involved in conducting clinical trials.” Health Canada did not say what those regulatory changes would be.
About harm reduction sites is how they coax drug users off the street and into gas chambers.
Representatives with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS unveiled Vancouver’s first indoor safe inhalation site in the Downtown Eastside on Wednesday.
Dr. Julio Montaner, the Centre’s director and physician-in-chief, and Dr. Kate Salters, a senior researcher with the Centre, gave a tour of the soon-to-open rooms at the Hope to Health Research and Innovation Centre.
“We needed to do something more directly focused on the needs of this patient population if we’re going to get ahold of the [drug toxicity] epidemic,” Montaner said.
It looks like I picked a good week to start sniffing glue.
About progressive approaches in treating mental illness and addiction in the community, is the progress.
British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act for those with severe addictions who are mentally ill and have sustained a brain injury, the premier announced Sunday just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.
David Eby pledged a re-elected NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to “provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves.”
Eby told a news conference in Vancouver that involuntary help would be aimed at people struggling with overlapping addictions, mental illness, and brain injury concerns who are not able to ask for help for themselves.
And it certainly shouldn’t be your therapist.
Robert Malone- iPhone Mental Health Assessments
Bottom line- no data is 100% secure, and this is mental health data. Data that might be extremely embarrassing, career-damaging, or has the potential to disrupt family relationships. Remember, no one knows what new laws, regulations, or mores might come to pass years from now. This type of information should not be harvested and stored.
Furthermore, trusting that iPhone will never sell that data or pass it off to research groups is very naive. In fact, mental health data is already being mined.
