Common sense being ignored in addictions discussions

By Lethbridge Herald on July 19, 2023.

Re: Advocates for safe supply for drug addicts.

I have never believed this to be a viable option. In fact, advocates for safe supply are admitting that nothing is working and that’s why they need it. Safe supply is just another example of enabling rather than treating the addict.

Sadly, a “practitioner of safe supply”, succumbed to his own failure. The higher learning advocates will of course state it was not done in “their highly paid medical laboratory”. https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/store-owner-who-sold-hard-drugs-dies-after-suffering-fentanyl-overdose

Common sense never enters these discussions. It is solely based on emotion, tear in the eye, and fawning over something that quite admittedly is difficult to watch. 

What I see everywhere is the “congregation of the emotional” all of whom, avoid common sense as if it were the Black Plague!

 Does it make them feel better to publicly display their emotions so others can coddle them as being “caring people”, making the opposition heartless swine? There has to be some payback?

I was part of a SACPA discussion as a “concerned citizen.” What I saw was “emotion dropping” from start to finish. Applause broke out in unison when discussing “emotional interactions and communications” as being the wonder drug that solves all. Giving everyone a home was met with resounding applause and encores called for, as if in an opera.  Common sense was met with eye rolling.

Yet, not a word of amazement, when I produced a chart that showed up to 80 per cent of addicts die in the homes just proposed as a solution, just support for the person who wanted to house them?

 My barrack like facilities was met with; “where is the Indigenous art” as if I should have painted it myself? I said, If you want to save lives start by not putting them in a home of their own!  Dead silence ensued, then the synchronization of the  eye roll by panelists and audience alike occurred?

One questioner wanted to hear from panelists that supported the evidence, knowing full well that my approach was based on common sense, and not evidence! Evidence is not a proof. The proof is your evidence has failed!

Do not put the wet facility in the downtown because saving lives and killing livelihoods  is “forever. 

Please remember that! The “evidence and proof” is every other city in Canada! Let’s think outside the box before it’s too late! 

I will debate with anyone, anytime!

Dennis Bremner

Lethbridge