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@StayInAlive the father

In this particular case I agree but in general I just can’t even tho I can empathize when a lot of this.

All that is a crock of chit. Enabling addicts isn't the way to go even if it means relieving some pain for a short period of time. Or even because of a mental illness like depression. The fact that there are alternatives enabling a addict only helps shorten their life.

@@robertlavigne9828 you really should educate yourself. This isn’t enabling. When addicts feel safe and not judged they are FAR more likely to ask for help. Which means they are far more likely to get sober. It’s far more difficult to get these people help when there is so much shame, stigma, and judgmental attitudes like yours. Countries that have decriminalized drugs have lower rates of addiction and lower rates of overdose. Substance use disorder is a disease that needs treatment, not jail time and judgement. These sites keep people safe. Not only are less people dying when these sites are legal and easy to access, but less disease gets spread around within communities and more people find sobriety. I encourage you to educate yourself on these matters so you can find some empathy within your heart for these human beings who are struggling. Good luck to you and God Bless.

this is a very intriguing statement i can totally see this being true

Thank you for confirming apparently everyone else is very uneducated

She said, it wasn't legal.

@@JulsLittleBeirutAnarchy At the time of filming

Thank goodness, Kenney shut Alberta’s down! Cons want to kill us!

That infuriates me. They are allowing people to be destroyed by addiction.

@@marylinz5079 They are less likely to lose their lives due to these sites. With workers and doctors they most likely help many wean off and become clean. Not only does it stop death, but also the strain on the healthcare system and increases access to treatment to overcome addiction. It also prevents diseases and infections drug users who inject can and do get, again, reducing strain on healthcare systems. They also have many programs they can join to help achieve less deaths or illnesses, safety for them and others, less burden on the police, it saves lives and also money. Often times it leads to a safe space for someone experiencing trauma induced substance abuse disorder to talk, most often those with SAD move over to a more conventional substance used to treat the disorder. Is that not great??? By keeping patients safe and alive, they are recognizing the chronicity of addiction and then provide them with another chance to engage in recovery services, as they are now putting their faith back into these people.

​@@marylinz5079 Better this way than be destroyed by a crazed legal system, be assaulted while high, die from infections, Fentanyl-Poisoning or Overdosing. Counseling also means that people can be helped towards freeing themselfes from addiction.

Can I ask what are the upsides to even having these places besides this. People are still doing drugs? These so called “safe consumption” sites still allow consumption of drugs. I’ve personally seen drugs tear apart families luckily mine was repaired but not everyone is so lucky.

Yes

It's much better to work out treatment with a medical professional, but their availability doesn't always allow sufferers long enough clarity. How do you manage? Did you get admitted to a hospital to try meds and doses?

@@wessltov figured out the proper dosing for me at home. Sometimes though it’s not enough and thc is expensive… most of the time it works better than narcotics for me

@@BlinkOnWheels Glad that worked out for you! From what you're saying it seems you managed to keep an objective view, instead of taking more and more out of worry

Going to an ER is not only expensive and gets you labeled as an addict. You are forced to tell the pharmacy tech why you need your pain meds but the guy who needs penicillin to keep his junk from rotting off after he cheated on his wife gets to keep his privacy in tact. The policy keep us safe, supposed to any, until some asshole broke in to my house to steel my meds after he over heard me. He even said in his statement he waited near the pharmacy until someone he heard the tech ask why needed my meds then he followed me home. All the policies in the world won't help.

No good deed.......

How is it safe to inject street drugs. you never know what your injecting. Sober since 7/31/2017. If you don't understand so called safe injection sites do not solve the problem.

@@marylinz5079 Research suggests otherwise. So do the many addicts who have become clean since these sites have opened. The strain on the criminal system and healthcare systems are less burdened with overdoses, infections, diseases caused by unsafe injecting and as with what the person did in this episode, they check the substance to make sure it isn’t mashed with other substance (not just fentanyl) ​ As I have written on another comment; They are less likely to lose their lives due to these sites. With workers and doctors they most likely help many wean off and become clean. Not only does it stop death, but also the strain on the healthcare system and increases access to treatment to overcome addiction. It also prevents diseases and infections drug users who inject can and do get, again, reducing strain on healthcare systems. They also have many programs they can join to help achieve less deaths or illnesses, safety for them and others, less burden on the police, it saves lives and also money. Often times it leads to a safe space for someone experiencing trauma induced substance abuse disorder to talk, most often those with SAD move over to a more conventional substance used to treat the disorder. Is that not great??? By keeping patients safe and alive, they are recognizing the chronicity of addiction and then provide them with another chance to engage in recovery services, as they are now putting their faith back into these people.

@@marylinz5079 it's safe in the meaning of location, the needles being used, the people around you. It's a safer way to use street drugs and you are right, it doesn't solve the problem but it's a step in the right direction at least

Also safe injecting sites and related services are proven to be more likely to support people to get into long term treatment

It’s sad but you have to follow the law in what what state or country your in.

This is a show, but this happens. You can save a person's life and get arrested. FFS there was an old woman who got arrested for feeding the homeless. That's why people are deterred from helping others.

Thankfully these places do exist, and fortunately for some places it is perfectly legal for them to be there. Honestly, hope more countries conform to this idea, it actually has a lot of benefits, yk? Not only for those individuals, but the country as a whole.

I think you mean Dr. Jones.

Unfortunately what’s right and what’s legal aren’t often the same

funny how Canada closed down a lot of the safe injection sites because the sites increased drug abuse and crime.

Seems to me like it just feeds the problem. Do these sights help people kick these addictions or does it just give them a place to shoot up?

@@clydewill2340 it shows we care about addicts rather than demonizing them. We can’t shame people out of drugs. We can help them. I do think it’s a real fine line depending on the country and site. But it’s far better than mass incriminating them for having a disease

@@Meanie74personally I dont really care if someone chooses to use drugs, usually I only start caring when I start finding dirty needles lying around or people try to peddle these seriously addictive substances to others who's lives will be destroyed by them. I can definitely see some benefits to having some of these, but I'm not sure if it would outweigh the drawbacks.

@@clydewill2340 it worked for Portugal

Eugenics. Plain and simple. In Canada people have taken the assisted suicide to stop the pain!!!! I hope you are feeling better.❤

You should get a second opinion or third even 10th if that posibble, i cant even begin to imagne how chronic pain would felt, my teeth decaying is really horrible pain, i cant even sleep, now chornic pain ? omg

@@gethina-come7885 Wish I could. Doctors are being investigated by the DEA for writing "too many" opioid Rx. None will accept an opioid-dependent patient, even with a documented health condition. Their employers are ORDERING them to stop or get fired from the practice!

@@downhomesunset Thank you, dear. The days of feeling better are in the past for us, but your concern is appreciated!

I hope you find a great doctor to guide you through it. I got amytriptriline to help me sleep i know what youre going through and im so sorry.

Conservatives and their War on Drugs will never allow stuff like that to happen. ESPECIALLY since it doesn't make any money.

Yes! I hope this starts getting more awareness so that people have more/better ways to get help. Atleast in my country there's pretty poor help for drug users looking to get clean. I knew somebody who tried to get clean but failed to find any outside help (he did try) and in the end couldnt do it on his own and went back to using, I have no idea where he is these days or if he's even alive..

@@strangerinastrangeland3613 Shoutout to the raisins in suits that, to this day, still refuse to admit they lost the War on Drugs. They're the only ones believing the War on Drugs is still happening, and thereby spending millions every year trying to fight it to absolutely no avail. Dethrone the raisins. Bring in the fresh grapes.

@@ThePowerofCutleries Unfortunately, no new fresh grapes will ever be brought in. Trump is running again in 2024, and if he wins, the entire country is going to fall.

@@strangerinastrangeland3613 Well, perhaps what the US truly needs is a downfall into pure anarchy and chaos to climb itself out of in order to finally, FINALLY, see the error of its ways. Unfortunately, with the state of the American people, I doubt even that will be enough for them to learn. At least it's wildly entertaining to see from the outside. It's almost like a real-life reality TV show. The World's Greatest 3rd World Country! Edit: Huh, your reply got removed. I suppose RU-vid shadowbans the mention of certain political names nowadays. Just another thing to add to the list of things this site does wrong.

most definitely not legal

@@DonMarzzoni well they are here 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@buffya8012 just because it's legal in your area doesn't mean it's legal everywhere else.

@@DonMarzzoni Where are you basing this from? Just I've seen you comment it twice now so I was curious as to where you're from

@@dantheman9565 I'm from Denver, but I'm basing all this because except for a few cities it's not legal especially in "prolife" Republican controlled cities and states.

The DEA has shut down opioids for pain patients in my area (upper Midwest). Drs who write "too many" opioid Rx are fired & turned in to the DEA.

@@krisaaron5771 as they should be.

@@toomanyaccounts “too many” prescriptions were numbers pulled out of thin air by the DEA. They have full access to mine, yours and everyone else’s medical records in the guise of saving us from our doctors. They will actually call drs and ask if a patient needs this amount of that. The government is in your doctors office.

@@toomanyaccounts no. You cannot pretend that you know what "too much" is!

@@theduckchick 300-400 new prescriptions in a month whereas the doctor has no office and no patients

They are in New York....

They're legal in California. Fox News goes to them and films people and then airs the footage to attack Democrats for helping people...

It would be nice to have them everywhere! Addiction is a disease in and of itself, and yet people are still seen as bad people when they are simply desperate to ease their pain! I have heard of these heroin dens where people toss trash everywhere and bad needles that have been used over and over is a nightmare! To see the kind of thing of a place where people are SAFE, NOT judged AND has a place where people can fight their addictions is like God sending angels to grant us more hope in a world of pain and despair!

You underestimate the mental gymnastics some cops and politicians will do to bring down their targets

If only Ritalin can suppress addiction but not sex

It's analogue to morphine lol

Lol, so helping to pump heroin into the arm of an addict will help kick the addiction? I had no idea.

@@arynrowland862 Yes. It provides a safe space for them to inject while they receive therapy. Most people (assuming you) think drug addicts deserve to be assaulted and die simply because they have an addiction.

@@arynrowland862 there is literature.

Yes however it comes with mental consequences. Those drugs can affect a persons mental health

@@mistiqueentourage7182 Often, their mental health is the reason they started doing drugs. Trauma is the "gateway" drug, not cannabis, a warm bed and a meal or two. When the nurses are helping keep them alive and breathing, the drug counselor (typically a recovering addict) is talking to them about getting clean. That's when they're listening; you as a therapist/counselor go where THEY are.

Especially after the VA decided to force veterans off opioids that were working for them for decades. Pain is extremely debilitating; it can take away your will to live.

Yes!

Cause it’s Kensington

Indeed, it is.

Ayyyy! Another ‘Pegger!

Idk but i love her in all of them

What other things has she been in where she plays a doctor?

Arrest

safe injection sites are definitely not legal

In a Red state, probably. Safe Injection Sites are only a thing in places like Maine, NY, and Cali.

This was not legal when the episode aired.

No it's not. It's definitely not legal. There maybe no federal laws against it, but state laws prevent them

New York

Yes

It is if the person used a lot. It has enough for one in each nostril, I've administered to ppl before. And it's Narcan.

It's NArcan, not norcan. And it's not an inhaler, it's a spray. And yes, they can use both nostrils if the patient took a significantly large OD

However, being in constant chronic Intractable pain comes with its own set of troubles. There's a tolerance built up, meaning a higher dose is needed. This doesn't make them an Addict! If someone is turning to the streets, this would be their safest bet. Otherwise, doctors Should be Able to treat their patients in pain with the proper doses while in pain management, NOT THE GOVERNMENT BY ANY MEANS, THEY'RE NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND UNLESS, OF COURSE, IT HAPPENS TO THEM! DR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED, THEREFORE CAUSING SOME TO THE STREETS JUST TO EASE THE EXCRUCIATING PAIN WHICH WAS ONCE CONTROLLED GIVING A QUALITY OF LIFE! Now all anyone wants to do is give Narcan which reverses the effects of the drug and then the whole cycle begins again until control over their pain is achieved.

We’re not separated economically or any other way. If people would stop drawing lines in the sand, we could simply help each other

@@downhomesunset Exactly! 💞

@@downhomesunset We aren’t, but typically people that are in power or desire power don’t really care about others. I don’t mean infer that it is 100% the case, but it is more often than not.

That’s not a “dope house”, it’s a safe consumption site.

@@downhomesunset They were talking about the hotel

Yes

I’m pretty sure she was Rose in Dr.Who

@@niaharmes9256 nope, she's martha

@@stormkip7330 Well I’m dumb 😹

Yes she is

She already did the damage and she's in pain everyday and she has a professional helping her ween off safely

@@AC-ri2ph not sure how you think this is in response to my comment. As an addicts mother I have mixed feelings and I am allowed to . You don't what those feelings are or why . But have a blessed day