This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Annie Storey, centre, holds a cross with a photo of her late son Alex Storey, before a march to mark the five-year anniversary of British Columbia declaring a public health emergency in the overdose crisis, in Vancouver, on April 14, 2021.As people took turns speaking into a microphone from the back of a flatbed truck, Annie Storey looked on, clutching a white cross bearing a photo of her son, Alex.
Perry Kendall, the former provincial health officer who declared the emergency on April 14, 2016, had feared that more than 800 people could die that year – a figure that was surpassed then and more than doubled last year . “By taking this step, we can address and reduce the fear and stigma and shame that keep people silent about drug use,” Ms. Malcolmson said Wednesday. “This will support more people in reaching out for the health care support that they need, the life-saving supports and treatment that they need.”“[Alex] died on his bathroom floor, trying to hide the fact that he had relapsed from his partner, from the rest of us,” she said.
Steven Yau, a family physician working in the Downtown Eastside, noted that doctors were initially blamed for contributing to the crisis by overprescribing opioids. Those same doctors are now expected to prescribe a way out of it at a time when tolerances have soared and many people require significantly stronger drugs than even five years ago.
Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry acknowledged the hesitancy and said officials are “engaging with clinicians about having the confidence to support people who use drugs with the safer supply resources that are available.”
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Just say no kids!
Isn’t this more alarming than Covid in the bigger picture? 😇 only for the ones that can still think, analyze and do the math
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