"Alberta Politics & Government Thread 2.0"
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[observes whatever the hell this is]
Yeah, some of you just need to take a break.
In actual related discussion:
Alberta Crown corporation study finds Red Deer OD prevention site closure didn’t lead to more deaths
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New research by a Crown corporation created by Alberta’s UCP government has found that last year’s closure of Red Deer’s only overdose prevention site did not lead to an increase in overdose deaths, emergency department visits or ambulance calls among former site users.
The results of the study conducted by the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE) were published by the scientific journal Addiction this week, but already some are raising concerns about the study itself, the impacts it could have and who did it in the first place.
The study looked at data related to the Red Deer site from June 2024 to six months after its closure, and also looked at data from the overdose prevention site in Lethbridge that continues to operate. It concluded that the announcement and closure resulted in “significantly increased rates of accepting treatment” among the identifiable site users “as the site prepared for closure and was ultimately closed.”
It also outlined that short-term effects on urgent health-care usage and fatalities appeared “stable,” but the findings remained inconclusive due to the limited followup period of 26 weeks.
Dr. Nathaniel Day, CoRE’s chief scientific officer, is the lead author of the report. He told CBC News that there is “a lot of conflicting information out there” when it comes to benefits and drawbacks of overdose prevention sites.
CoRE was created in 2024 to study recovery-oriented care. The research organization reports directly to Mental Health and Addiction Minister Rick Wilson.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ment-9.7128107
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I, for one, am stunned that this 'research' Crown corporation created by the sitting government of the day whose decision it was to close these sites in the first place -- and reports directly to the Minister in charge -- found that the government's decision was not, in fact, a bad decision. Pardon me if I take this finding with a grain of salt the size of the moon.
It would have been cheaper to just get Danielle Smith to write the report herself.