Spent a few days in Edmonton on a few different trips in the last month and it's shockingly bad how the social decay from opioids and fentanyl is there. Shocking the size, scope, width and more it is. All across the city you see an incredible amount of sketchy people to a different degree. It really is Vancouver downtown eastside light.
Calgary has a lot of this currently I am sick of it here and everywhere really. This is a complete and utter failure across the board from everybody. We are talking about untold billions in dollars spent and we are going backwards.
What is the actual strategy here? What are governments, people, organizations and corporations doing about this issue? Why is nobody being held to account?? Why are people not thinking about citizens concerned and fed up with this problem? Business and employees who have to deal with the social decay of people just to try and put food on the table and a roof over there heads and still have to deal with the safety risks?
I know we like to joke around about Edmonton being no good but this is a problem right around the country. Edmonton is the capital of the supposedly wealthiest province in Canada, one which spends the most on healthcare and we are being put to the brink as a result? How do we expect others to fair better. Everybody who I talked to this weekend across the board has been affected by this to untold degrees. It makes you wonder from a strategic perspective, who is doing this and what is the end goal with a lot of these problems that are intertwined.
An ICU Dr friend in Edmonton brought up a good point. How many people in Canada don't have basic access to a family Dr, including the above mentioned addicts. He can fire off enough patient names he has personally looked after with these issues where the total expense to the system is $500k-1 million in the last year or two+.
Be much much better Canada. Our future matters too
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