„Keine Pläne“, sicherere Angebotsfinanzierungen zu verlängern, nachdem die Unterstützung des Bundes leise abgelaufen ist | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-funding-safer-supply-1.7595544
„Keine Pläne“, sicherere Angebotsfinanzierungen zu verlängern, nachdem die Unterstützung des Bundes leise abgelaufen ist | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-funding-safer-supply-1.7595544
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„The latest [report published by Ottawa’s safer supply program](https://safersupplyottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/Safer-Stimulant-Supply-Ottawa-Eval-Report-Summer-2024-1.pdf) suggests that it was having some success — 85 per cent of clients surveyed reported a decrease or halt in their fentanyl use.“ All while further saving those lives with safe-supply.
Leaving aside the righteousness and efficaciousness of these programs, I have a question that is not addressed by the article:
[https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawas-experiment-safer-opioids-could-be-nearing-end](https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawas-experiment-safer-opioids-could-be-nearing-end)
So, is $10 million the totality of what Ottawa spent in this area? I know there was $40 million in 2022’s budget for support for substance abusers, but I don’t think that contained anything for safe supply specifically.
If so, that’s for 31 different sites across the country?
That being the case, it seems like a funding gap that municipalities could readily address if they wish to.
As a reminder, I believe Trudeau originally sold this as a pilot program.
It might have indeed helped some people. But with no incentives/sticks to get off of the junk, and the parasites that turned it into a money making scheme and the decline in health of the neighbourhoods these where clinics were made the program untenable IMO.
Another cause for some cautious optimism that Carney is abandoning the worst policies of the Trudeau government.
I think in 50 years, we will all look back in shock that our governments ever thought it was a good idea to give out free drugs to drug addicts.