Drugs draw in kids

Things have to change in order to protect our children from dying of a drug overdose. Since more people in BC have died from a drug overdose than COVID, that means the harm reduction strategy we have using for the last 20 years is a failure.

Are you aware that anybody over 18 can go to the health unit and get needles or pipes or anything needed to do drugs that may kill them and instructions on how to use them so they don’t hurt themselves? They will also give you a naloxone pen and instructions to shoot up with a buddy so he can save your life if you start to overdose. Do you really really think we should be encouraging children into becoming junkies by making it so easy for them?

I was told that you do not help a drunk drink or a junkie do his drugs because you’re not helping them. I guess that’s not true anymore.

I wonder if the drugs that are killing people are legal or illegal? I know we spend hundreds of millions on police to get drugs and dealers off the street to keep the public safe. The biggest problem they seem to have is the courts. The police bust them and the courts give them a get out of jail free card so they sell more drugs. I know that may sound stupid but that’s the way it works and until that changes the opioid crisis will just get bigger and spread along with the gang violence. BC has become a drug dealers dream. Lots of customers, lots of money and no punishment.

Something has to change because what we are doing is not working and we are going to lose thousands more young people and thousands more homeless and it will never stop. It will just get worse.

So what are you going do about it and help save lives? You have all the tools you need to cause change with email, phone and Facebook. You have to make how we are handling the opioid crisis a hot topic to get change and that will take lots and lots and lots of people to stand up for themselves and demand change before we can help the homeless people.

One last question and I glad I don’t have young children. How are mom and dad supposed to protect their children from drugs when the deck is stacked against them?

Rick Berry Prince George