Since the congregation took naloxone training in March, there’s been seven outside St. Albans. But that number is quite modest. At the drop-in centre beneath the church, where some of Ottawa’s most afflicted seek daytime refuge once the overnight shelters close, they’re doing at least one [naloxone application] a day.

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Yeah it’s entirely the individuals fault and not a societal failing or anything. Every other country also has this problem for sure

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Society made them do illegal drugs? Ohh boy I guess no one has any agency. We’re all children and need the state to help us.

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Ah yes and everyone who has stolen food is just evil and should be jailed because they didn’t want to starve? Material conditions can substantial alter people’s decision making. If youre stuck in the cycle of poverty knowing very well you aren’t making it out, why not do hard drugs? You’re never making it anywhere anyway.

Would you have said it was every individual Chinese person fault that they had an opium epidemic and not the British and Chinese administration for allowing the production and trade of opium to be so prevalent? Yes people have agency but if you trap someone in a box and put some heroin in it they’ll do it eventually

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Ah yes and everyone who has stolen food is just evil and should be jailed because they didn’t want to starve?

Ahh yes food and hard drugs are the same thing. Jesus give your head a shake. You don’t need to do drugs.

If youre stuck in the cycle of poverty knowing very well you aren’t making it out, why not do hard drugs? You’re never making it anywhere anyway.

We are 14th in the world for mobility. So how do you figure you’re stuck. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

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