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Originally Posted by corporatejay
What is the recovery rate of people using heavy drugs like this? Like it's a nice story that we are all about tolerance and helping the "underprivileged" but if most of these people will be junkies and a social drain until the day they die, what are we really doing here? Sacrificing the health and safety of law abiding citizens for persons who have chosen a high risk lifestyle with severe consequences? That seems crazy.
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I doubt they would want to compile/breakdown and press release those numbers, it likely wouldn't look good PR wise. I haven't been able to find any numbers glancing around for Calgary but Vancouver does give some high level data.
User statistics from January 1 – December 31, 2017
175,464 visits by
7,301 individuals (average of 24 times per individual)
For the fiscal year 2017/18
443 clients accessed Onsite, the adjoining detox treatment facility, with an average stay of 11 days.