He's the general manager of Steve's Music on Rideau Street. Mornings bring a rush into the clinic and pharmacy next door. People come out with pills. According to Sauvé, his store's front stoop is often their next stop.
But neighbouring residents, businesses and police say the program has to change to stem the flow of cheap, addictive pills they believe are reaching the streets to fuel social disorder and crime. The evidence is just beginning to roll in, but it's encouraging, according to Prof. Thomas Kerr, head of the division of social medicine at the University of British Columbia and director of research with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.
It's the block of Rideau Street between King Edward Avenue and Nelson Street: the site of Steve's Music and locations of two Safer Supply partners: Recovery Care and Respect RX. Stam said the street price of Dilaudid has fallen through the floor provincewide from about $8 to $9 per pill to just $1 or $2 today.Robberies, beatings 'demoralizing' for residents
"The violence against people who are intoxicated, it's really demoralizing, because you can see them getting robbed and beaten," she said. That total was higher than any block adjacent to the city's three major homeless men's shelters, for example, and well above the 529 reported crimes in the same spot in 2019.
"The tools that we've been given to engage safer supply are not adequate for what we need. You know, we have a hydromorphone solution for a fentanyl problem, and this is sort of the equivalent of giving a baby Aspirin for a migraine."
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