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Doug Ford wants to stop doctors from handing out clean needles. Here’s why they shouldn’t listen

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/doug-ford-wants-to-stop-doctors-from-handing-out-clean-needles-heres-why-they-shouldnt/article_032617d2-6eba-11ef-a823-37383c37fe5f.html

“It has been established for over 35 years that public health is protected by providing clean needles (ideally when also collecting used needles) and the prescribing of opioids reduces overdose-related

Doug Ford wants to stop doctors from handing out clean needles. Here’s why they shouldn’t listen

6 comments

jerkface

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This nonsense with safe injection sites, politicians interfering with patent care, and the push for "involuntary treatment" in BC makes me think that the brief era of "science-based policy" where empirical data trump public ignorance is coming to a crashing end.

can

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Because a lack if clean needles is not going to stop them.

SirAramis

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And then it’s going to put more pressure on the medical system to take care of them. This is dumb.

nyan

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Ford's policies make it clear that he clings to the outmoded view that addiction is a moral failing and can be stopped by strength of will alone. He'd rather feel superior than save lives.

can

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Exactly! It's so short sighted.

nik282000

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Because he is a criminal who is directly responsible for the death of countless people during the start of COVID?