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Originally Posted by 68style
Every country is having record levels of those things right now, it doesnt matter what type of government is in power, the global economy is in a severe downturn.
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This isn't really a good counter argument. Yes, many parts of the world are seeing these trends but there are also examples of places where they are dealing with these particular issues better. Eg. in terms of the specific issue of dealing with the drug OD crisis. In Belgium, they also use clean injection sites etc. but they require those who receive clean drugs to participate in a mandatory rehab. And that is much more effective than Canada's approach of just give clean drugs so no one dies. Here we debate whether a forced mandatory participation in a rehab program violates a person's civil liberties ...
So I mean in terms of specifics and discussion - would you support mandatory participation in rehab if you use clean injection sites? I, for one, would.
If that was the approach, then gov't has to throw money at creating spaces for rehab. Right now, the wait is weeks to get into something.