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Falcon promises $1.5 billion ‘no-cost recovery-oriented’ approach toward addiction

Kevin Falcon said a provincial government under his leadership would spend about $1.5 billion and open recovery centres across B.C. — not just the Lower Mainland — to help those needing treatment and recovery from drug use.

Falcon announced those numbers during a visit to the Westminster Housing Society as part of a “no-cost recovery-oriented system” that would complement existing harm reduction measures with treatment and recovery. “It’s misplaced compassion to have society’s most vulnerable be abused and exploited on the streets, while we pretend to care about their welfare.”

“But people need to understand that we are already spending today literally billions of dollars in the criminal justice, in the policing system, in the health care system…and many actually are not getting better.”

 

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