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Originally Posted by Sliver
IDK, maybe just lurk the thread for a bit? Not to be a jerk, but your contributions on this topic are less than useless. Just snappy little judgements on anybody who has an idea that moves beyond giving junkies more drugs and hugging it out with the mentally ill.
Those of us who actually want to progress and help solve this problem are looking for practical solutions. You're just ixnaying anything anybody says, but you're not being funny, clever or contributive, so I just don't really get what you're doing here.
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1) I would suggest you start by not using a stigmatizing word like junkies. They're people. They're somebody's kid, somebody's sibling etc. Calling folks junkies and crack heads reduce people to their drug use, and thus can inadvertently strip them of their humanity.
2) as I stated in my original post, yes I think safe use sites should be expanded. And that housed folks in the suburbs also use drugs and die alone in their houses/apartments. The opioid epidemic is much more far reaching than unhoused folks hanging out at an LRT station.
3) again, as I stated in my original post a reevaluation of housing policy is needed to address much of the 'social disorder' discussed in the thread. This would also impact high budget items like healthcare and health outcomes. For instance there has been an increase in Edmonton of amputations as a result of the last cold snap etc.
4) I'm not suggesting people hug it out. That's a reductive example of the approach I'm suggesting. I do believe, strongly, that you can't enforce folks out of homlessness or drug use. That it just kicks the can down the road at best, and leads to further harassment etc and stigmatization of visible drug users at worst.
5) when people start a sentence by 'not to be a jerk' they're very clearly being a jerk
6) internet tone is implied, and if you're reading more angst into my posts than I'm intending, that is what it is. But admittely I knew what this thread was going to be when I opened and i should have known better.
7) personally, I think calling Calgary a 'left wing' city is pretty funny. I think on whole it's pretty centre-right with a growing centre-left. Which I think you can see in the run up to the election as the NDP accepts the UCP framing on issues which likely means the NDP will lose, but that's a tangent.