MONTREAL — Officials in Montreal are struggling to get the public on board with the city's approach to treating people with severe addiction and homelessness...
MONTREAL — Officials in Montreal are struggling to get the public on board with the city's approach to treating people with severe addiction and homelessness, as those social crises become fodder for political attacks.
But there are no easy solutions, according to experts, who say people with severe drug addiction need services like supervised consumption sites — where they can be treated if they overdose — or else they risk dying on the streets.Elaine Hyshka, Canadian Research Chair in health systems innovation and associate professor at the University of Alberta, says city officials open safe-injection sites in urban areas because that's where drug users are.
“People are scared to live around here,” Lambert said, adding that his neighbour was assaulted the previous weekend by people smoking crack on his doorstep. Hyshka says people may linger outside safe-injection sites because there isn't enough housing. Some of the sites, she said, have become “lightning rods” because they tend to be few and far between, serving large groups of people instead of being spread out across the city over a broader range of facilities.
The result, Bruneau says, is that in some areas people are upset to see their neighbourhoods becoming the face of social crises, especially if they have paid high prices to buy property nearby. But she says services must be provided where vulnerable people are located. “It just went on and on and on in terms of falsehood just like the speech went on and on and on itself,” said Daniel Dale, highlighting one of the “wildest” claims.Stephen Colbert Sums Up RNC With 5 Damning WordsYour Grandkids May Be Afraid To Tell You This, But We're Not. You Need To Stop Saying These Phrases To Them.
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