r/Lethbridge • u/elsthomson • Apr 28 '26

Events Supervised Consumption Site Closures: Creating Chaos to Justify Coercion (May 12 at Galt Museum, 6PM)

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Join us at the Galt Museum for this UofL-hosted event featuring SAGE Clan Patrol and Drug Data Decoded.

We'll examine how closing the Lethbridge consumption site will give rise to more social disorder that will be used to justify involuntary treatment measures being forced into public systems by the province.

Registration optional (but helpful!): https://uleth.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cAMoL8gOcBPmS7I

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u/kmsiever Apr 29 '26

This should be a good conversation if those two are the participants.

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u/SourDi Apr 28 '26

Was doomed from beginning without staffing qualified healthcare professionals AND living in a part of the world that doesn’t embrace addressing the other social determinants of health.

BuT tHe LoCaL bUIsNeSSeS

Wish it was back, built right next to the mayors home, and we actually treated SUD and addictions like a chronic illness AND practiced evidence based medicine. But this is AB after all.

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u/Entire-Discipline727 Apr 29 '26

The original SCS always had medical professionals on staff, more than were required by Health Canada. I'm unsure of the exact requirements in the mobile one, but I believe it's 1-2 licensed medical staff, 1 counselor, and 1 peer support per shift.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '26

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u/snukkedpast2 May 04 '26

Did you read your own sources? They directly say: There is no systematically collected evidence about whether public substance use has increased or decreased since the implementation of decriminalization. Your claims don't seem to align

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u/VirtualAffect7597 May 01 '26

I don’t get it, what does prayer have to do with this conversation?

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u/TechHonie Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

All you gotta do to create this situation is ban home opium growing. Congratulations,  a hundred plus years later you got carfentanyl while at the same time still stopping zero opiate enjoyers from acquiring the fix they demand. Our good intentions have paved a nice road to hell, we get to sleep in the bed we made.

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u/YqlUrbanist Apr 29 '26

Personally I think we can do better than "someone made a mistake a century ago and now we're screwed".

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u/elsthomson Apr 28 '26

Yes we are still feeling massive reverberations from laws passed in the early 1900s - even farther back to the Indian Act in 1876 if you want to keep going. In that, Indigenous people were prohibited from all “intoxicants” and modern drug laws were essentially built off that foundation.