B.C. Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon says he wants clients better steered toward treatment after MLA Teresa Wat said they are against ‘so-called safe injection sites’
B.C. Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon says the province’s supervised drug consumption sites have strayed too far from their purpose and, if elected, his government would overhaul the facilities to offer more medical supervision and ensure clients are better steered toward treatment.
“We’ve lost the plot,” he said. “The pitch to me was that there was going to be an equal focus on helping connect people to treatment and recovery services.” He said he could not speak to those sites housed in hospitals, but many if not all of those in the community appear to be offering only “limited supervision of drug use without the focus on connection.”
If everyone who needed treatment agreed to go, “that would take six years for the lowest-ball estimate of how many people have an addiction,” she said.Ms. Wat said Tuesday she is upset theare saying her party was misleading the public and spreading different messages to the Chinese-speaking community.
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