A brilliant Mind! It is incredible to see such a wise Lady! So many trapped from many medical surgeries! Stop these poor people from being forced to the streets! What family in this country has not been touched by this.
Or, make the penalty alot tougher, amazing how fast you sober up in jail. Seems to me you can't include a street junkie in this decriminalization, difference between being prescribed and getting them on the streets.
There is no opioid crisis. There is a prohibition crisis. Caused entirely by drug prohibition. Prohibition makes drugs more potent and more dangerous. Opium prohibition began in racism and bigotry. Time to end it. When alcohol was banned, thousands of people died from liquor overdoses and poisoned liquor. That wasn't a liquor crisis, that was a prohibition crisis. We are in a prohibition crisis.
Decriminalize possession only
My son has died October 29, 2019. I knew not much about opioids and after a surgery where he broke his clavicle and the doctor kept giving large jars of opiates my son became addicted predictably! From 2/2016 his life was a hell ride many days and as a Mother so was mine. I did everything I could, passionately to find treatment, answers, to listen, to gather and support him. I also had a steep learning curve, from "get over it," don't be a "junky" and again, I learned! These drugs are hijacking them by design and for a very good reason which my forthcoming book about what I learned through this gut-wrenching pain, that took us both down is being fueled by, meaning the real causatives! I couldn't agree more to decriminalize and by that I mean that people who are addicted could scale down and reduce their fear, trauma and stay ALIVE while we heal the REAL ROOT causatives which are NOT being addressed today. I lost my ONLY child at age 24, 2 months ago and it saddens and at times sickens me to read what I do as I review everything I can to find the truth and what will help us and I read what I have in the book, American Overdose by Chris McGreal! My goodness, you have to live it to have the compassion that comes from going through hell and back to keep someone alive! I am FOREVER CHANGED!
What's the rationale in interviewing her? Good question, why did we not hear of her doing much when Health Minister?
Did decriminalizing marijuana get rid of that problem? No.
Addiction is a response to pain, suffering, stress, & social isolation. The opioid crisis is a symptom of a society in decline. It is the result of 40+ years of Neo-liberal policies.
Legalize and regulate all drugs If you support prohibition then you support drug dealers, organized crime, corruption of police & politicians, drug cartels, etc. Which side are you on?
Have a tidepod cookie
Conservatives & religious people disagree.
Drug trafficking kidnaps governments and populations, because we empower it. Only decriminalizing and regulating drugs can we combat drug trafficking, reduce the number of addicts and address the problem correctly. Certain drugs, such as marijuana, which is less dangerous than alcohol, must be fully legalized (with regulations). Others, such as methadone, should be sold in drugstores under medical prescription, to help recover addicts to opioids (heroin for example). Heroin must be administered in specialized injection centers, to avoid overdoses and to provide a path to rehabilitation. In addition, marijuana, unlike what is commonly thought, makes people consume less of the other drugs (opioids for example). Legalize it is to give a direct blow to drug trafficking.
Yeah, let people grow their own poppies and cocca. Why keep supporting wicked pharmaceutical companies or the violent importers of the street versions of pain killers.
The Drs keep prescribing them knowing full well the impact its having on society
I read plenty of years ago, since maybe 2015, maybe even a little earlier, that Britain had ceased criminalizing opioids and that, in place of criminalizing, established community sort of clinics where addicts could get their doses. Subsequently read that Vancouver had begun a similar program. This reportedly led to decrease in crime, non-violent crime anyway, and it likely also led to decrease in unnecessary deaths. Like the doctor interviewed for this CBC report rather makes clear, the problem is a health issue, so that's how it should be treated by govt. It doesn't make sense to criminalize people due to them having health issues.
Smaller gov't please. Stop being the problem by trying to solve problems.
Well, what governments are doing now isn’t bloody working. Portugal has shown that decriminalization works a heck of a lot better than just locking people up and further destroying their lives. Treating addiction as the healthcare problem it is than just wasting taxpayer money to lock people up is only making money for for profit prisons and those invested in them.
If you think things don’t need to change then you are extremely ignorant. But it doesn’t matter because most governments are too invested in not fixing anything and just hoping things will improve on their own, because we’re governed by morons.
Sure why not. And then why not decriminalize shitting in the streets, or knowingly infecting other people with AIDS. A liberal paradise in the making.
How's decriminalization working out in San Francisco and other cities that have stopped enforcing drug laws? You have addicts openly injecting on the streets, used needles littering sidewalks and playground, people defecating on the street, dealers keeping just under the legal limit and a massive increase in petty crimes. Look at what's happening to the good, hard working people that live near the safe injection sites.
NO!! IF THERES NO CONSEQUENCES WHY QUIT,MORE LIBERAL NIGHTMARE POLICIES.
no
no
no. There you have it, all the javex won't wear this comment section out.
Defund CBC
Jeffrey Eick:C
Decriminalizing opioids will solve the opioid crisis like how decriminalizing pedophilia will help the pedophile problem…any other bright ideas?
I suggest the "Swiss Model", good luck with it neighbor…
No
NO
Sick bastatds..
No, decriminalization will not help the opioid crisis. The prosecution and execution of the entire Sackler family and their kin might make a demonstrable effect though….
To Stop the Opioid Epidemic. Simple Ban Opioids , even the Pharmaceuticals. The Issue of Addiction levels increasing is because Drug Companies have Doctors push their products . Decriminalization of Addictive drugs have always Increased Addictions/ Deaths. Drug Companies want total decriminalization to boost sales. The more addictive drugs are accessible to users the more addicts you have. The more addicts the more crime. Drug companies Profit from increased sales to more people [they go 'Over The Counter' class products]. Drug companies have ONE concern in mind PROFITS . Collateral damage can be blamed on others.
Decriminalization isn't legalization. One allows the unfettered free market sale of the commodity, while the other protects the users of a commodity from criminal arrest and prosecution. Criminalization of drugs, specifically addictive drugs, is an incredibly inefficient and oppressive way of harm reduction from recreational drugs. Right now, people with opiod addiction are, from the fear of legal issues, pushed into the shadows of the black market. Intervening with public health solutions for individuals suffering from addiction becomes significantly more difficult when the person is in hiding.
Why is dying by opioids any different than people dying from alcohol or tobacco? Sick of people using opioids illegally affecting other people's rights to pain meds who need them, i.e. Veterans. I know people who use opioids daily so they can work 40 plus hours a week. Not everyone is groveling…
You only care cause its white people dying from those drugs….
I personally don't care what someone does to their body. Live drugs become legal but before they become legal there should be extreme testing and studies done at home or within the classroom showing people what road they could go down. I do not forgive criminals who commit offenses such as robbery and other sorts of memes to get their money this is what future drug addict should understand in detail. But sadly liberals will give these people a disability and set them free on the street free on all of us that's where I have a problem with people being hooked on drugs
The only thing that should be illegal is murder, sexual assault, theft, and obviously there are many levels of these crimes but it pretty much covers all that is unfair to a unwilling participant or person.
Liberals, all talk no action.
Decriminalization of everything that is wrong in society is the not the solution. It's teaching young children discipline and the value of life
The people on hard drugs dont see weed as anything , thats a fact , and weed isnt a gateway drug its alcohol.
Some drugs are so addictive that they should never be marketed in the first place. Patients who are dependent should have their supply guaranteed since they became addicted through no fault of their own. Others should never get their hands on it.
Wow, save your pitching arm CBC, set up the tee for these softball questions.
Does drugs solve the housing crisis, or real needs of citizens and residents?
I understand about everything when it comes to people abusing but what about the people with real chronic pain herniated backs even after surgeries they are still in pain if not more and they still have to be able to go to work because they cannot afford or live if they were to go on disability. It's just ridiculous.
Alcohol prohibition proved once and for all time that it is never successful! Except in growing organized crime and more misery!💀 Addiction is a form of mental illness. Prohibition of any drug is wrong and never the solution!
Taking away the over does kits will solve the opioid crisis
A brilliant Mind! It is incredible to see such a wise Lady! So many trapped from many medical surgeries! Stop these poor people from being forced to the streets! What family in this country has not been touched by this.
Or, make the penalty alot tougher, amazing how fast you sober up in jail. Seems to me you can't include a street junkie in this decriminalization, difference between being prescribed and getting them on the streets.
There is no opioid crisis. There is a prohibition crisis. Caused entirely by drug prohibition. Prohibition makes drugs more potent and more dangerous. Opium prohibition began in racism and bigotry. Time to end it. When alcohol was banned, thousands of people died from liquor overdoses and poisoned liquor. That wasn't a liquor crisis, that was a prohibition crisis. We are in a prohibition crisis.
Decriminalize possession only
My son has died October 29, 2019. I knew not much about opioids and after a surgery where he broke his clavicle and the doctor kept giving large jars of opiates my son became addicted predictably! From 2/2016 his life was a hell ride many days and as a Mother so was mine. I did everything I could, passionately to find treatment, answers, to listen, to gather and support him. I also had a steep learning curve, from "get over it," don't be a "junky" and again, I learned! These drugs are hijacking them by design and for a very good reason which my forthcoming book about what I learned through this gut-wrenching pain, that took us both down is being fueled by, meaning the real causatives! I couldn't agree more to decriminalize and by that I mean that people who are addicted could scale down and reduce their fear, trauma and stay ALIVE while we heal the REAL ROOT causatives which are NOT being addressed today. I lost my ONLY child at age 24, 2 months ago and it saddens and at times sickens me to read what I do as I review everything I can to find the truth and what will help us and I read what I have in the book, American Overdose by Chris McGreal! My goodness, you have to live it to have the compassion that comes from going through hell and back to keep someone alive! I am FOREVER CHANGED!
What's the rationale in interviewing her? Good question, why did we not hear of her doing much when Health Minister?
Did decriminalizing marijuana get rid of that problem? No.
Addiction is a response to pain, suffering, stress, & social isolation.
The opioid crisis is a symptom of a society in decline.
It is the result of 40+ years of Neo-liberal policies.
Legalize and regulate all drugs
If you support prohibition then you support drug dealers, organized crime, corruption of police & politicians, drug cartels, etc.
Which side are you on?
Have a tidepod cookie
Conservatives & religious people disagree.
Drug trafficking kidnaps governments and populations, because we empower it. Only decriminalizing and regulating drugs can we combat drug trafficking, reduce the number of addicts and address the problem correctly. Certain drugs, such as marijuana, which is less dangerous than alcohol, must be fully legalized (with regulations). Others, such as methadone, should be sold in drugstores under medical prescription, to help recover addicts to opioids (heroin for example). Heroin must be administered in specialized injection centers, to avoid overdoses and to provide a path to rehabilitation. In addition, marijuana, unlike what is commonly thought, makes people consume less of the other drugs (opioids for example). Legalize it is to give a direct blow to drug trafficking.
Yeah, let people grow their own poppies and cocca. Why keep supporting wicked pharmaceutical companies or the violent importers of the street versions of pain killers.
The Drs keep prescribing them knowing full well the impact its having on society
I read plenty of years ago, since maybe 2015, maybe even a little earlier, that Britain had ceased criminalizing opioids and that, in place of criminalizing, established community sort of clinics where addicts could get their doses. Subsequently read that Vancouver had begun a similar program. This reportedly led to decrease in crime, non-violent crime anyway, and it likely also led to decrease in unnecessary deaths. Like the doctor interviewed for this CBC report rather makes clear, the problem is a health issue, so that's how it should be treated by govt. It doesn't make sense to criminalize people due to them having health issues.
Smaller gov't please. Stop being the problem by trying to solve problems.
Well, what governments are doing now isn’t bloody working. Portugal has shown that decriminalization works a heck of a lot better than just locking people up and further destroying their lives. Treating addiction as the healthcare problem it is than just wasting taxpayer money to lock people up is only making money for for profit prisons and those invested in them.
If you think things don’t need to change then you are extremely ignorant. But it doesn’t matter because most governments are too invested in not fixing anything and just hoping things will improve on their own, because we’re governed by morons.
Sure why not. And then why not decriminalize shitting in the streets, or knowingly infecting other people with AIDS. A liberal paradise in the making.
How's decriminalization working out in San Francisco and other cities that have stopped enforcing drug laws? You have addicts openly injecting on the streets, used needles littering sidewalks and playground, people defecating on the street, dealers keeping just under the legal limit and a massive increase in petty crimes.
Look at what's happening to the good, hard working people that live near the safe injection sites.
NO!! IF THERES NO CONSEQUENCES WHY QUIT,MORE LIBERAL NIGHTMARE POLICIES.
no
no
no. There you have it, all the javex won't wear this comment section out.
Defund CBC
Jeffrey Eick:C
Decriminalizing opioids will solve the opioid crisis like how decriminalizing pedophilia will help the pedophile problem…any other bright ideas?
I suggest the "Swiss Model", good luck with it neighbor…
No
NO
Sick bastatds..
No, decriminalization will not help the opioid crisis. The prosecution and execution of the entire Sackler family and their kin might make a demonstrable effect though….
To Stop the Opioid Epidemic. Simple Ban Opioids , even the Pharmaceuticals. The Issue of Addiction levels increasing is because Drug Companies have Doctors push their products . Decriminalization of Addictive drugs have always Increased Addictions/ Deaths. Drug Companies want total decriminalization to boost sales. The more addictive drugs are accessible to users the more addicts you have. The more addicts the more crime. Drug companies Profit from increased sales to more people [they go 'Over The Counter' class products]. Drug companies have ONE concern in mind PROFITS . Collateral damage can be blamed on others.
Decriminalization isn't legalization. One allows the unfettered free market sale of the commodity, while the other protects the users of a commodity from criminal arrest and prosecution.
Criminalization of drugs, specifically addictive drugs, is an incredibly inefficient and oppressive way of harm reduction from recreational drugs. Right now, people with opiod addiction are, from the fear of legal issues, pushed into the shadows of the black market. Intervening with public health solutions for individuals suffering from addiction becomes significantly more difficult when the person is in hiding.
Why is dying by opioids any different than people dying from alcohol or tobacco? Sick of people using opioids illegally affecting other people's rights to pain meds who need them, i.e. Veterans. I know people who use opioids daily so they can work 40 plus hours a week. Not everyone is groveling…
You only care cause its white people dying from those drugs….
I personally don't care what someone does to their body. Live drugs become legal but before they become legal there should be extreme testing and studies done at home or within the classroom showing people what road they could go down. I do not forgive criminals who commit offenses such as robbery and other sorts of memes to get their money this is what future drug addict should understand in detail. But sadly liberals will give these people a disability and set them free on the street free on all of us that's where I have a problem with people being hooked on drugs
Lol, that’s nuts. Legalize marijuana, fine. But decriminalize opioids? Um, no…
The only thing that should be illegal is murder, sexual assault, theft, and obviously there are many levels of these crimes but it pretty much covers all that is unfair to a unwilling participant or person.
Liberals, all talk no action.
Decriminalization of everything that is wrong in society is the not the solution. It's teaching young children discipline and the value of life
The people on hard drugs dont see weed as anything , thats a fact , and weed isnt a gateway drug its alcohol.
Some drugs are so addictive that they should never be marketed in the first place.
Patients who are dependent should have their supply guaranteed since they became addicted through no fault of their own.
Others should never get their hands on it.
Wow, save your pitching arm CBC, set up the tee for these softball questions.
Does drugs solve the housing crisis, or real needs of citizens and residents?
I understand about everything when it comes to people abusing but what about the people with real chronic pain herniated backs even after surgeries they are still in pain if not more and they still have to be able to go to work because they cannot afford or live if they were to go on disability. It's just ridiculous.
Alcohol prohibition proved once and for all time that it is never successful! Except in growing organized crime and more misery!💀 Addiction is a form of mental illness. Prohibition of any drug is wrong and never the solution!
Taking away the over does kits will solve the opioid crisis