Winlaw, B.C., like so many other places in Canada, big and small, is struggling with addiction and death and what to do about both.
On the counter at Mama Cita’s, where the locals line up for coffee — it’s the only place around to do so, really — there are some pamphlets and buttons arranged off to the side. “Safe supply now,” says a button.
His mother Jessica previously ran 900 times around the Ministry of Health in Victoria to draw attention to toxic drug deaths. This May, she was running across the province. Aubrey’s mom wants to regulate illicit drugs and she’s not alone. In Toronto, here in B.C. and elsewhere, many people are declaring that drugs won the war on drugs. And they want safe supply. Regulation, no prohibition..Except there’s a problem with that. In Toronto, for example, the decision of city council to distribute branded crack pipes to addicted people hasn’t really resolved the problem at all. In 2021, for example, nearly 600 people died from opioid overdoses in Canada’s largest city.
After a while, people get desensitized by the drug death statistics. They turn away. And so when someone says it’s time to legalize drugs — including the ones that kill kids like Aubrey — they say: Why not? Nothing else has worked. Maybe try that.
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