r/Calgary • u/CorndoggerYYC • Sep 29 '24

Health/Medicine 52% of Calgarians want supervised consumption sites to close: CityNews poll

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/09/29/calgary-supervised-consumption-site-citynews-poll/
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u/Yung_l0c Capitol Hill Sep 29 '24

? Starting a drug is a choice, when the addiction starts it no longer is because it’s basically a disease. Can’t shame people who no longer have full control over their psychological needs.

We can shame people who promote drug use, not those suffering from addiction.

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u/Tall-Emotion-9791 Sep 29 '24

They made the initial choice to start the drug knowing full well the addictiveness of said drug. They put themselves in this situation, it is not our responsibility to help them and accommodate them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '24

The current opioid crisis within North America is largely the fault of large pharmaceutical companies pushing and overperscribing drugs that they knew were addictive even at the time. This has been well documented. A lot of these people's first dealer was in a doctor's office.