[peter12]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

As I said, the Police data is absolutely irrelevant in these cases as they are making a heavy presence felt in order to curb the absolute madness that would otherwise be going on. Even so, I can assure you there is nothing minimal about the impact of these sites.

I have friends and co-workers that live in the areas that now come home to buildings with users naked in lobbies, pleasuring themselves in parking lots and generally making life scary. Would you tell you family members to take a stroll through these areas by themselves in the evening? These people certainly never had to deal with this kind of thing before the SIS opened. I guess everyone who lives there are just nonsensical NIMBY's though.

There is no benefit for anyone in pretending these sites are some sort of clean, glowing success as they are certainly not a long term solution and merely a band-aid on a bullet wound. It really is great that they have a 100% OD recovery rate and are saving lives, but what about the stories from EMS on how certain individuals have been recorded overdosing 50, 60, 70 times since some of the clinics opened in AB? Often multiple times on the same day/night? This is not a success in any measurable fashion.

I find it horrifying that we as a society accept that with no identifiable pathway for recovery, counselling and ultimately healing. Everyone can feel great that we have a safe place for it to all go down though I guess.

This is hysterical.