You`re a little late with "could be", every town and city is well underway.
Belleville Ontario Declares Addiction, Mental Health and Homelessness Emergency
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For the large majority of the druggie/criminal/shitbag population it is a lifestyle choice. They don`t give a flying fuck about you or I when they leave dirty needles in a park or harass or assault or rob you or break into your car or home. Fuck `em... let them OD and die. I worked over 45 years and never took a dime in any kind of government assistance, and it paid off well. That was my CHOICE.
FWIW...yes. I`ve lived my entire adult life with Dysthymia and G.A.D. Also endured ten broken bones, several fractures, torn ligaments and a pile of stitches from many years of racing motocross, hockey and lacrosse. Now following cancer, abundant arthritic issues and spinal stenosis and disc and S.I. joint issues, I`m well acquainted with the things life throws at us. Some people just choose to give up or drop out, get drunk or stoned and want no accountability and blame everyone else, but we all race on the same track in the end.
This is very ironic, Bellville used to be the recovery capital of Ontario there were meetings 24-7 dozens of sober houses. They used to say its was your last chance if you didn't make it there your probably going to die an addict or alcoholic
Well most of these mental health patients and druggies have encountered sexual abuse as a child. i understand there pain i was a victim too. At 12 years old i smoked weed to escape the flash backs and memories then for the next 20 years i got drunk a few days a week. Why because my brain can only handle so much pain from my traumas and thats exactly what most of these people are dealing with or physical abuse.
Health care spending isn't increasing at the same rate as the population, we are experiencing cuts per capita.
You really do need everything explained to you.
Nice try. You narrative about cuts is misleading. I proved that with the FAO stats. You're wrong again.Health care spending isn't increasing at the same rate as the population, we are experiencing cuts per capita.
You really do need everything explained to you.
If you think population is having negative impact then complain to the Feds for letting too many people in without a plan.
I have made my peace with the choices others have made for themselves, have seen friends live for years on pins and needles waiting for phone calls that their brother was dead. Calls from the police when he was arrested, yet again for some petty crime. Calls from the hospital that, yet again he had been admitted due to being hit by a car while on drugs, due to being robbed for drugs, hypothermia, on and on for 10 years until finally a visit from police that he was dead from an OD.
Have seen decent hard working people have their rental properties gutted by drug addicted tenants who tore out every copper pipe. They turned the house into a flop house for their other addict buddies. They destroyed the sink and toilet in the bathroom and just shat in the bathtub. By time my friends were able to get them evicted for nonepayment of rent the house was rendered unlivable and it cost them over 100k in repairs as during renovations the house was broken into and the contractor had several thousand dollars worth of tools, equipment and material stolen from the boarded up house.
So if they choose drugs over living then so be it. I also think about the daily mental trauma that first responders and ER staff have to deal with because of these fuckwits who clog the overly stretched and stressed ER departments. Just go to the morgue and be done with it.
basically you have zero empathy for the addict. thats why this country is in a crisis. they need rehab not jails. they need therapy not yelled or scolded to. If there fuckin parents raised them better the government wouldnt be left with so many damaged and bruised adults.
Health care is provincial.
Its all on DoFo.
Emerg closures, long lines at emerg, nurses leaving, contract nurses making more.....
The population went up but health care spending didn't match and now Ontario spends the least per capita in Canada.
And you cheer it on.
True but some don’t which is was the “point”. It’s not as simple as “choice”. Take people that are diagnosed with PTSD and it’s not reserved for just adults..Or simply don’t have the access to professional help, or support networks, or for that matter. Job opportunities. I’m pretty sure you and I grew up in a different era.
Yes, after decades of helping those who wanted help and others who were happy to live their worst lives I have zero fucks to give. Narcan was supposed to be for emergency OD's no is just part of the drug taking regimen. There used to be a time that people would OD and have a come to jesus moment, now they OD get revived, OD and get revived again. Is time for triage save those that want it and leave those that don't. Yeah they need rehab but they need to want rehab, so long as they can rely on Narcan to save them they won't choose rehab.
Some addict makes it very hard to have sympathy for them. The problem with addiction is that your brain camp in a victim mentality. Some will get over it and get real help/grow and others will hurt people around them as a reflexion of how much they have been hurt themselves. They will never admit they are the ones who needs help. They are the one for who, unfortunately, jail might end up a necessity because they have no sense of self control and becomes dangerous for themselves and others....
Its not that its a victim mentality, its that addicts become too focused on the now of getting high to consider anything even longer term than the next meal.
Get them off the streets, give them treatment and time. Or deal with rampant petty theft, some violent crime and unsafe city streets.
Your choice.
That would require legislation that is compliant with the Charter in order have addicts forcibly institutionalized and treated for their addictions or mental illness. No government at the federal and provincial levels want to pour billions into the medical field to deal with the issues. The community methadone programs don't work.
