Doug Ford wants to stop doctors from handing out clean needles. Here’s why they shouldn’t listen
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/doug-ford-wants-to-stop-doctors-from-handing-out-clean-needles-heres-why-they-shouldnt/article_032617d2-6eba-11ef-a823-37383c37fe5f.html
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can@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 1y
Because a lack if clean needles is not going to stop them.
SirAramis@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y
And then it’s going to put more pressure on the medical system to take care of them. This is dumb.
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Exactly! It's so short sighted.
nyan@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1y
Ford's policies make it clear that he clings to the outmoded view that addiction is a moral failing and can be stopped by strength of will alone. He'd rather feel superior than save lives.
nik282000@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
Because he is a criminal who is directly responsible for the death of countless people during the start of COVID?
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
This nonsense with safe injection sites, politicians interfering with patent care, and the push for "involuntary treatment" in BC makes me think that the brief era of "science-based policy" where empirical data trump public ignorance is coming to a crashing end.