Cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco and Vancouver have adopted extremely liberal drug policies with horrific results including more ODs.
The results don’t justify the actions; last year, the province recorded 2,272 overdose deaths.
Asked to comment on the city’s application to make all hard drugs, including fentanyl, heroin and now tranq legal, her campaign said she supports this initiative.Article content British Columbia’s tenfold increase in drug overdose deaths would indicate the policies Chow is advocating for don’t work. B.C. got a province-wide exemption that decriminalized hard drugs at the end of January, and by March, the paramedic service was recordingSo far this year, B.C. is on track to match or exceed 2022’s overdose deaths, the highest on record.
The four pillars of drug policy have long been prevention, enforcement, harm reduction and treatment.With the rise of drug use, the rise of overdoses, we are obviously doing a bad job as a society at preventing people from starting to use deadly opioids and other substances. The idea of using law enforcement is definitely out of vogue at the moment, and suggesting a stronger police response simply isn’t politically correct.
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