The family alleges that despite her age, Brianna was able to obtain Fraser Health drug paraphernalia including needles, crack pipes and pamphlets on how to use safely. Fraser Health is the largest regional health authority in B.C. The family has a plastic bag containing the paraphernalia marked Fraser Health, says Charles. "But if a child can't vote, can't buy liquor or sign a legal document, how can they get their hands on illicit drug paraphernalia," he asks.
The family begged the hospital to keep her and provide treatment. Instead, Brianna was discharged. The family was told Brianna had the right to decide for herself, despite being just 12 years old.
I can't even laugh anymore. What happened to this country I was once so proud of in a mere decade of Redditor rule makes me so sad.
!leafs come weep over what we once had 
!chuds come laugh at us for being a nation of r-slurs
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I used to be a strong proponent for harm reduction like needle exchanges and handing out narcan like candy, however it only seems to keep the people who will never quit abusing drugs from dying, or at least keeps them just above the waterline for an ungodly amount of time while taxing the healthcare system, until you got places like seattle or portland with hordes of fent zombies who they can't lock up anymore due to decriminalization so they just flounder and shit things up.
Then on the flip side it seems to contribute to relatively avoidable deaths like this. I'm not sure what the solution is but I blame all the homeless people, kids don't count though.
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If you look at effective drug policy (proven by science) harm reduction is only a small part. Treatment, prevention and deterrence all play a role as well.
Advocating for harm reduction on it's own is like posting thoughts and prayers, it's useless
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The solution isn't automatically the opposite of what Canada is doing, but it's certainly not any of the policies they've tried. And the results from everywhere trying the most 'harm reduction'-style policies shows they don't work, at least if there's not a strong effort to force drug-free behaviour along with it.
You'd think it would be another negative in the 'kids know what's right for their bodies' types, but none of them have shown signs of being redeemable either.
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Yes we need some in between, reducing the burden of the perma-junkies who will always exist + not have open drug markets and hobo camps
Needles and cleaning shit and gov funded street OD monitoring isn't really the problem IMO. That legit saves lives and reduces burden on healthcare and paramedics. The real problem is openly tolerating it socially and letting people freely do hard drugs on the streets.
Those street communities foster fricked up cultures that spread to whoever interacts with it.
Just like gangbanging, gov intervention/enforcement wont stop it if the reigning culture makes it normal
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Norwegian prisons, Chinese prison staff, 1980s American police, Singaporean judges
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Wrong, the cure for addiction is daily whipping and slave labor camps.
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Put druggies in camps
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