Alberta to Close Supervised Drug Consumption Sites in Calgary and Lethbridge

[border_humper]

Alberta to Close Supervised Drug Consumption Sites in Calgary and Lethbridge

www.theepochtimes.com

Alberta will shut down two supervised drug consumption sites this summer as the province continues to shift toward a recovery-focused strategy to address addiction.

The Sheldon M. Chumir Centre in Calgary, together with a mobile service in Lethbridge, are set to close on June 30. Funding designated for these services will be redirected to expand addiction treatment, medical detox, recovery support, and 24-hour outreach teams, Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis said at a March 20 press conference.
“Our government has been very clear from the start that addiction is a health-care issue that requires treatment and recovery-focused supports,” Ellis told reporters in Calgary. “A health system works best when it helps people heal and get well, instead of leaving them in a cycle of crisis, and of course, struggling. We don’t want that.”

The Chumir Centre was established in 2017 in response to a rising opioid and overdose crisis. It was followed by six more sites across the province.

The province closed a site housed within the Royal Alexandra Hospital just north of Edmonton’s downtown core last year, as well as a site in Red Deer. The upcoming closures mean that only three supervised consumption sites will continue to operate in Alberta: two in Edmonton and one in Grande Prairie.

Addictions Minister Rick Wilson said the government is not planning to close the remaining sites. He said treatment services and recovery facilities in the capital city have not yet reached the standard needed to allow for the closure of the sites.

A big win for UCP and Albertans.

 

[brutana_dilewski]

Imagine thinking that the way to sobriety is via encouragment of drug use.

Reminds me of those parents when i was growing up that would let their kids have parties with alcohol at home.

"Well at least they are doing it here so we can supervise them" one dad told me a long time ago (early 90s)

Back then I thought that was cool - chill parents who let their kids drink in the basement with their friends.

Man was I stupid.

 

[ovarieasy]

"Where will they go?"
"The unsupervised drug consumption sites."
"Where are those?"
"Playgrounds, parks, schoolyards, your front lawn, etc."

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

Probably get a free bus ticket to Vancouver.......

 

[hugh_madd]

I mean, right now they do that anyways. The sites ensure that, in addition to it, a radius around the site becomes completely uninhabitable. And possibly gets them Narcan of letting them wipe themselves out.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Lethbridge is in serious trouble Between the grooming gangs, raping of minors, kid napping of minors and human trafficking as well as the drugs Lethbridge needs saving asap.

Lord God Jesus please save Alberta and all its people! Please save Lethbridge youth and minors. Drive the evil out.
Heal our land!

 

[brutana_dilewski]

Lots of communists in Lethbridge. They have a college AND a university despite being a small city so run the math on that.

 

[Nuremburger]

The only sane province in the country. Even if we don’t separate, I stand behind this woman’s tenacity to apply common sense in the face of ever increasing evil.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

She actually listens in time to pastors and ministers who are able to get meetings with her. Now if she could end abortion that would be fantastic.

Morality need return and the church to the people of Alberta or all will be lost. Islam is no where on the drug issue, kidnappings, child trafficking, raping, child sex, etc etc

Islam is ok to stand against the gay but where is islam to stop the deaths of the unborn and all the other immoral behaviours?

I see Christians doing this work but i am not seeing Islam at all. Perhaps Islam is ok with Moloch sacrifice?

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

I see Alberta is also changing MAID rules somewhat: Until the courts change it....

According to AI

It limits access for eligible Albertans Notably, the federal law allows MAID for those whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable; Alberta would remove this option entirely. In addition, Alberta's proposed law aims to limit MAID to those with a limited life expectancy.