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Originally Posted by peter12
Maybe. I lived close to the DTES in Vancouver for a couple of years, and yes, it is stressful, but people need to look at the opioids crisis for what it is - a huge public health disaster.
The supervised injection sites actually take needles off the street and reduce infections and overdoses. It's a drop in the ocean to what needs to be done, but this is all representative of much larger socio-economic issues which a lot of the posters in this thread could spend a bit more time learning about.
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Oh yeah, I think the average citizen forgets that the main point of safe injection sites is to decrease the spread of disease and death and to help people in a centralized area when overdoses occur.
It's about saving human lives, while I feel too many are falsely looking for drug crime/use to decrease as a result. That change would mostly have to come from better access and quality to mental health care. Which I don't think we'll be seeing any time soon.