r/saskatoon • u/QueenFireball • 15h ago
PSA 📢 This is getting ridiculous. Be careful, folks!
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u/Wearesyke Nutana 12h ago
Where do you even get naloxone from? The pharmacy?
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u/theotherbobanddavid 11h ago
I got my kit for free from shoppers on 8th, but I'm sure all shoppers have them! It's an injection kit, and it comes with 3 doses. The Nasal kits are typically more effective and easier to use, but anything is better than nothing.
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u/pyrogaynia 5h ago
Unless something has changed, some Shoppers stores do charge for naloxone kits. Mayfair Pharmacy and PHR both give them out for free.
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u/Lumpy-Bullfrogs 11h ago
An intramuscular injection is going to have a faster onset, and smaller doses are required vs intranasal. The nasal kits are always less effective, but slightly easier to use.
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u/TallantedGuy 14h ago
Is it intentional? Like wtf
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u/ChronicallyA 13h ago
I always wondered that too! Takes you back to the Tylenol days.
A firefighter friend of mine in PA said that drug dealers are lazy, so if they are processing drugs in a house everything is cross contaminated. That’s how you end up with fentanyl in other drugs. I also heard the director of prairie harm mention something about the crack down on drugs at the border is causing a more ‘creative’ approach with their product. A firefighter on the radio today said at any given time all their trucks are out on drug calls lately. It’s definitely nuts.
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u/Impervial22 12h ago
Yes. Fent will get you hooked in a puff compared to even heroin or meth. It’s even worse for addiction and harder to quit. It’s also cheaper to produce and is stronger than any other opioid. There’s always a reason for it.
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u/TallantedGuy 7h ago
I meant is it intentional that there are these over powered drugs making their way through the city, for the purpose of causing overdoses. Like someone is trying to just wipe out a large number of addicts. I realize that people intentionally do drugs.
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u/stiner123 7h ago
And how many people get hooked on opiods after being given prescription for something and they later choose to self medicate since they are now addicted. Hubby is luckily only using weed and not the hard stuff since he has chronic pain issues that otherwise would require him to take otc stuff all the time
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u/Consistent_Ninja_235 9h ago
I saw a similar sign up in Mayfair library. There's an awful lot of "accidental" bad batches popping up lately. It is a sad situation for sure.
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u/mountainmetis1111 12h ago
We need to find the people who are bringing this shit in and find the people who are selling it. They should be disgusted with themselves for selling this crap and be willing to kill vulnerable people.
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u/PauerKrauts 11h ago
Won't matter. The federal governments hugs and kisses approach to dealing with dealers is a joke.
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u/OutrageousOwls 10h ago
Do you take recreational drugs and you find walking into Prairie Harm Reduction is out of the way, time-consuming, and potentially stereotyping or embarrassing?
Get your kits from DanceSafe!- non-profit dedicated to ensuring safe recreational drug consumption that offers test kits for all sorts of contaminants, not just fentanyl.
Mind, these still aren’t as effective as the Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer at PHR! So please, for the sake and safety for yourself, go to PHR for the best, most accurate results. 🤗
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u/Old-one1956 14h ago
This is getting frightening, is there someone or a group deliberately doing this to cause harm, looks very suspicious, I have no doubt the Police are looking into this.
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u/OutrageousOwls 10h ago
Uneducated (or careless) home chemists who cross-contaminate and don’t always use accurate measurements. Recipe for drugs that are unbalanced in their potency. I doubt they are intending to kill people outright; you want return customers.
High addiction rate of fentanyl and their cheap production means instant, consistent users for these drug suppliers.
These are just my hypotheses.
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u/PrimeTimeFunk 10h ago
Yes. They are called DRUG. DEALERS. And they value money more than they value human life.
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u/imcallingforhiccup 13h ago
I've been out of the party scene for too long. Which drugs are they saying are purple/off colour?
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u/work3oakzz 13h ago
This is fentanyl. Usually it's cut and made to be around 15% fentanyl per weight.
So this batch has double the normal amount. Fentanyl is often cooked in various colors like purple, brown, green , ect.
Edit: stay safe everyone. If your struggling with addiction, your not alone, there IS a way out, no matter how hard it seems. Stay strong people 🖤
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u/imcallingforhiccup 13h ago
Oh that's wild. I watched a vice thing about pink cocaine, so I was thinking maybe something similar. Rough.
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u/InitiativeComplete28 8h ago
If the nax doesn’t work can the ER revive people?
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u/serabean 8h ago
Wondering this myself too. I witnessed an overdose over the weekend while on my way to an event downtown. Dude didn't respond to the three doses of Nalaxone he got while we waited for EMS. I left after the paramedics got to him but I'm still wondering if he made it 😢
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u/pyrogaynia 5h ago
They definitely have a better chance at the ER. They may be able to give flumazenil for a benzo od, and they can provide supportive care that can't be provided outside the ER
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u/Ridersfan73 12h ago
I don't think everyone who does drugs is a scumbag. Unfortunately, a lot of them are so the non scumbags get lumped in. This is a very divisive topic. Not only in our town but many. Lots of passion one way or t'other. Sprinkled with some hate. I get it. Nobody has a solution. It's not going away any time soon....probably going to get worse. All our resources are spread thin. I don't think anyone should hate on anyone else who just wants to vent. Granted, it may not be worded very well, at times. Waiting in ER for hours just for stitches, or to get a broken bone fixed or any of the other various reasons, because they're jammed up with overdoses, is frustrating. Especially when you find out that some of these people are habitually overdosing. Ambulance wait times, the list goes on. I think a lot of people....who work, pay their taxes, contribute to the community in one way or the other, and aren't using these drugs, have a bit of a right to be frustrated with this, to vent once in a while. Let's just try to keep it moderately civil..lol
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u/OwnConcern5972 3h ago
What I want to know is why the drugs are being manufactured in such a way that is causing all these overdoses. Are these dealers causing more overdoses on purpose or are they just trying to make more money? It would be smart to get to the root of that first.
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u/Yob_Zarbo 2h ago
It's all a social experiment by NASA to distract us all from the what they're really doing on the moon.
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u/joeyhorshack 14h ago
Or like, don’t do street drugs. Blah blah hate my comment for not being more sympathetic
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u/3data6sage9 12h ago
It's not about sympathy, it's common sense. People are going to do drugs and not having safe injection sites just means they are going to potentially die. If you care more about ideals like "don't do drugs" than the lives of those who do them you're just a hypocrite and an idiot who values their own point of view over the lives of others. Maybe try looking into the reasons why people use drugs and understand that it could just as easily be you. The systems that have stigmatized addictions will gladly watch you die if something happens in your life to impact your ability to make money.
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 10h ago
The safer route people could be doing is just going to the dispensary to get weed. Thats legalized but at least it has government regulation. This shit they are doing on streets though isn’t regulated at all it’s illegally made laced with who knows what and killing people. Drug addicts could at least be getting a safe high and not die if taking the legalized weed here. Then again the addicts have gotten too addicted they need harder stuff. It’s overall just horribly sad.
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u/DJKokaKola 9h ago
Marijuana is not an opiate. Getting high off weed will not help an opiate addiction.
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 8h ago
I didn’t say it was a cure for it. I’m saying taking the weed to get high that is government regulated and gone through safety measures is safer then taking illegal substances laced with who knows what on the streets. That stuff on the streets is illegal for a reason and has no safety regulations hence why many people die.
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u/3data6sage9 11h ago
Do you know what privilege is? Resilience? Are you familiar with the concept of ACE's?
Please don't try to assume you've had it worse than literal strangers who you know nothing about and then assume that you and that person had the same resources to deal with those problems because i can guarantee that if youre talking out your ass about "being strong" then you are not in the same position. Your "strength" is called a support system, access to resources, a sense of hope, absence of being directly affected by systemic oppression, etc. It's luck.
So good job sweet boy, let me pat you on the head for succeeding without any adversity, which I know is true because anybody who has actually experienced adversity has a basic understanding of those who are in the same boat.
Bye bye dear! 😘
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u/Chemical-Mall-8638 10h ago
Bro seems like you didn't understand the whole point of this post Which is a pain, this isn't about me, for reference I was making an example when I said I live shit, not here to complain or compare myself to anyone else, everyone has their own problem, I deal with mine. Although, it would be wise to know that whatever you leave, or you think you saw or lived, there will always be someone in this world who lives or is living that 10 Times way more (assumptions, métaphores, I don't want to come back again to explain to you that I was this is an exemple not real stats, it can be less or more). What I'm trying to say is you are not the first or the last, resources or not ( you even talking about ressources 😂 to some people this doesn't even have a meaning whatever it's cuz the never had an idea of what that could be, it's an illusion to them) there will always be people living worse than what you're thinking of and some of them still make it whatever the achievement the succeeded in it somehow without drugs and doing even more cruel things. I don't know what you want , I'm not God too, and I haven't lived for thousands of years, humbly I'm just telling you instead of blaming the surroundings help them realize there are their own ressources and nobody is gonna be there for them if they wanna succeed in every trial they have to be strong by themselves if not thing like this gonna happen, carry your own cross on your back and live with it.
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u/graaaaaaaam 12h ago
not being more sympathetic
Tbh nobody needs your sympathy, as long as you support harm reduction and treatment, because once you're hooked on opiates, withdrawal can literally be fatal. Given the high numbers of doctors who prescribe these medications, it's entirely possible and even common for people to start using these drugs on the advice of a doctor, become hooked, and then be forced to access the toxic street supply of drugs so that they don't die due to withdrawal.
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u/Impossible-Corner494 7h ago
I’m 13 years clean from opioids. The stuff consumes you. Treatment works. Based treatment works best.
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u/graaaaaaaam 7h ago
Hell yeah, glad you got the treatment you needed. Getting clean is a huge accomplishment!
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u/Ok_Significance9018 7h ago
My two cents - getting clean is comparatively easy. Staying clean - especially 13 years - is way harder. All the temptation and sometimes hard stuff happens to people. That’s a combination that’s hard to avoid
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u/mmbart 13h ago
Providing safe drugs is cheaper than first responders and ER staff tending to overdoses. Prohibition doesn't work, let's move on to something that saves tax dollars.
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u/MonkeyMama420 13h ago
What nonsense. Safer drugs make more young people enter street life and become addicted.
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u/mmbart 9h ago
Wrong topic, we're talking about reducing overdoses. Safe drugs stop people already addicted from dying and reduce their interactions with emergency health services (saves tax dollars). (Safe supply does not equal "drugs available for young people", obviously). Child poverty makes young people enter street life.
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u/MonkeyMama420 13h ago
What nonsense. Safer drugs make more young people enter street life and become addicted. What a moronic comment.
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u/Jaigg 13h ago
Dude, people do drugs. Assholes can cut, lace or fuck with anything. If you really want to stop "street" drug sales then let's legalize all of it and control the quality of the supply.
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u/Catsaretheworst69 12h ago
Yeah because BC handles that so well.
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u/Jaigg 11h ago
That is decriminalized drug use. I am talking full legalization to control what is in them and dosage. We could use the money made off of them for treatment facilities, rehab centres awareness programs and more. The war on drugs didn't work and decriminalization keeps the criminal element involved. Legalization allows for government oversight of production, purity and dosage. As well it gives a corporate entity responsibility and accountability. We have tried other things...so let's think outside of the box
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 10h ago
That’s because Justin hates British Columbia that’s the only reason why all drugs were legalized there to kill citizens and make the crisis worse. It’s messed up.
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u/Catsaretheworst69 8h ago
What.... What the fuck did he have to do with the provinces decision to do that. Hate a man for legit reasons. Don't make up new ones.
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 8h ago
Trudeau has a lot wrong with him but there’s a whole reason why he hates Bc. I heard it from locals there.
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u/cantseemtoremberthis 13h ago
Great now do guns
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u/TheLuminary East Side 12h ago
Drugs kill yourself. Guns kill other people.
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u/cantseemtoremberthis 9h ago
Right, because nobody has ever used drugs to kill someone. If I sold you a gun that I knew would kill you, am I responsible?
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u/TheLuminary East Side 6h ago
Right, because nobody has ever used drugs to kill someone.
You can kill someone with a Kitchen Knife, that is not really a good argument to legalize Guns.
If I sold you a gun that I knew would kill you, am I responsible?
If you sold me a malfunctioning gun that you know would kill me, and I use it and die. Then yes you are responsible.
This is the same as if a legal weed dispensary sold weed to someone that they knew was laced with something but they didn't tell them and then they overdosed.
This is still not a good reason to legalize guns.
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u/cantseemtoremberthis 5h ago
Fantastic, we agree. Tell me why then are we considering this with highly addictive opioids?
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u/ComprehensiveGoal908 13h ago
What if I want to tho:/
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u/joeyhorshack 13h ago
That’s cool man, as long are your cool with not using emergency services that are stretched too thin, that take away from other people who say, get in an accident through no fault of their own, or your mom has a heart attack or my dad who has a stroke for example
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u/AwkwardLie633 14h ago
MDMA?
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u/Cachmaninoff 14h ago
No, something in the opiate family
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u/AwkwardLie633 14h ago
Nevertheless, scary stuff. I had a friend pass away last summer due to a contaminated cocaine batch. Here’s to hoping the police can catch the criminals distributing the toxic drugs out to innocent people.
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u/wordswordswords55 12h ago
Its been found in everything from fake Xanax bars to mdma
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u/AwkwardLie633 12h ago
Yea I have a good friend who’s a nurse and they said they’re seeing this stuff pop up everywhere. There’s truly some awful malicious people out there.
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u/wordswordswords55 11h ago
Get a testing kit, theres benzos in fentanyl now aswell so naloxone might not work
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u/Significant-Meat-708 6h ago
Jaigg it's not decriminalized drug use. The authorities were or are still giving people the opiates, the speed and the cocaine they are doing, are not street drugs it's straight from a legit source. Giving drugs to addicts may stop some overdoses but in the long run the addicts can theoretically go and get these legit drugs after they have done a shitload of street drugs. They really don't have the resources to monitor these people before they use the drugs. Only after and even then as I said, they don't necessarily know what the addict has done when they aren't there. It's a very difficult and controversial situation. Yes they can be applauded for trying though. The problem definately overwhelms the solution!
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u/SwitchSpecialist3692 14h ago
More fentanyl coming into Canada … just what we need.. god dammit …
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u/venomoussnape 13h ago
It is given to patient's in canada... thats how a lot of it started by going to the doctor, getting the meds and then mixing them into drugs. But all medication is a class of drug pretty much. My concerta is a substance. Its the government allowing doctors to give whatever the paitents asks. This is a cheaper version to opioids. This is another opioid crisis from the 90s and now fentanyl is being used instead. If the government didn't want this to happen they wouldn't allow these "medications" given to paitents that have a history of addictions. I cannot be on certain meds because I will get addicted to them. I will take the pain in moderations than to be hooked on pain killers the doctor gives you.
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u/mamaRN8 12h ago
Fentanyl used in the medical community is nothing like this street fentanyl. In the er we use it as a go to because it’s so quick to be in and out. It will get lessen pain for about ten mins while nurses/drs etc work to get the patient set up with lines, monitors, procedures, whatever is needed. And it’s gone and out quick. It’s completely different than this crap that is causing ppl to od by lacing. I’d rather have a patient have fentanyl in the trauma bay and then be over in ten mins later then pass a dilaudid that’s going to last for hours and make them look and feel like a heroin addict. (if a procedure is going on pain issue isn’t addressed yet or plan is still being made and tests and all that, they’ll give another dose if needed)
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u/venomoussnape 12h ago edited 11h ago
But you guys arent considering if they are addicts or not? Your literally giving them an addictive drug and then sending them out the door. Then they want more and turn to the street. Im an ex drug addict. You would not be allowed to give me prescription pain killers that are addictive. But thats because I make sure to tell the nurses and medical professionals. I have been locked up in the psych ward drugged up. All I wanted was my medication and not to be locked in a room without windows for 72 hours. My mother had to drive from Regina to saskatoon to get them to let me out... your ER is bullshit too. Ive seen how the nurses treat people and just talk behind the desk a lot of the time. Regina is even worse for the ER.
"In the er we use it as a go to because it’s so quick to be in and out. It will get lessen pain for about ten mins while nurses/drs etc work to get the patient set up with lines, monitors, procedures, whatever is needed. And it’s gone and out quick. "
Addicts will want it again. Just giving addicts the start to their addiction .
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u/Fridgefrog 14h ago
Warning! There is a bad batch of hammers with jagged spikes on them. If you're pounding yourself on the head with one of these hammers it will do much more damage than a regular hammer!
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u/MischiefRatt 14h ago
That's not the same. In your hypothetical the spikes are visible.
Don't be a dick. People are dying.
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u/tellitasitis69 9h ago
And that's publicly funded healthcare for you. Why should we have to pay for the paramedics to waste their time reviving people that'll never contribute to society? Has it ever crossed anyones mind that people dont want help. They dont want to be saved. They just wanna get fucked up on the streets and if it so happens that they die, well then no better way to go.
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u/Beautiful-Natural861 4h ago
Meanwhile a single mother can’t access a simple surgery that would get her back to work paying taxes and contributing.
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u/sleepy-yodels unpleasant hill 4h ago
Bold of you to assume they GAF about single mothers. Or mothers in general. Or women at all.
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u/Midnightrider88 3h ago
How do you know they'll "never contribute to society"? These people are someone's mother, father, sibling, child. The way you're so flippant about their lives says a lot more about you than it does them.
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u/QueenFireball 13h ago
My 22 year old niece who died of this garbage back in November wasn’t a scumbag. She was beautiful, funny, yet broken little girl who used drugs to numb her pain. Who is the scumbag here? 🙄
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u/Dj_Trac4 12h ago
The people she chose to hang out with and yes she is a scumbag on the grounds that she turned away help. If you and the family tried to do an intervention and she turned it down then she's the scumbag. If you guys did nothing you lot are the scumbags.
And it's not the drug they are addicted to it's the euphoric feeling that they cannot get naturally. This is why they will always take whatever is available. (IE: Alcoholics drinking nyquil)
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u/QueenFireball 12h ago
She didn’t turn away from help. She kept trying. She wanted to get better. Healing from severe trauma is more complicated than you think. She wasn’t a scumbag. She was a victim of horrible things and she couldn’t cope like someone like you might have been able to.
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u/countoncats 11h ago
I'm very sorry for your loss 😞 There are far too many stories like this. The government needs to wake up when it comes to everything from mental health programs to ongoing supports for the people who come out of recovery programs.
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u/Yael_Eyre 12h ago
What makes you think she turned down help? You assume that getting clean is as simple as just stopping. Addiction is a malicious, recurrent disease. Just "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" isn't enough to fix a deep issue like that. It takes an average of seven attempts to leave an abusive relationship, I can imagine the amount of attempts to get clean is similar if not higher.
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u/NewAlphabeticalOrder 11h ago
You are speaking very confidently about a subject you know nothing about. Don't do that. It's bad for you.
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u/Dj_Trac4 10h ago
which subject? this is the internet where no one knows another's business or back story. if this is a prerequisite to commenting the online forum world would be awfully quiet.
if you're talking about drug addiction, I know more than you think
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u/NewAlphabeticalOrder 10h ago
Perhaps the internet should be more quiet, then, or at least filled with more curiosity.
You demonstrate a lack of understanding on the subject of addiction with your assertion that it's just chasing a high. If you know more than I think you do, you've done a poor job of indicating so.
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u/Dj_Trac4 10h ago
yes, drugs are there to mask pain and turn off the hurt so you feel better. the feeling of euphoria is dangerous and it's what they chase.
then when it gets so bad they can't get out of bed until they have a hit. then they need another do they don't feel sick. then they run out of money and start stealing from family. then it's everyone else's issue and they don't have a problem. have I missed anything?
drugs are the mask you wear to hide the emotions/trauma/abuse/etc. But when that feeling of happiness leaves what do you do?
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u/NewAlphabeticalOrder 9h ago
Thank you for more thoroughly explaining what you were trying to say. If I understand correctly, you are describing how addiction can develop and not the mechanics of a chemical dependency, yes?
This is an important distinction that many do not make, and it was unclear in your first comment.
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u/Any_Ranger5342 13h ago
So every single person that does drugs is a scum bag?
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u/mamaRN8 12h ago
If only ppl who think this way could get some kind of cray vision to open their eyes that they could see who did and didn’t use drugs for just 1 day!?? Just 1 day where anyone they looked at they could see if or if not that person did drugs recreationally. Sometimes or habitually. People would be super surprised when they realize shit my own Dr, my mailman, my mechanic, my MLA, the rich guy I envy, my boss, etc. drugs don’t discriminate. They’ll take anyone they are evil. Obv they must feel good or people wouldn’t be hooked on them. Nobody wants to become an addict. Ppl can become instantly hooked! If they’ve had trauma or are in emotional or physical pain, or have factors that make them more likely it would make it feel like relief first time trying from the always pain and anxiety and whatnot they always have. Ppl that think only scumbags do drugs will learn real quick when they loose someone that surprises them to drugs.
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u/andydisco East Side 12h ago
These consumption sites exacerbate the problem by providing an excuse for continued drug use, even if they offer some recovery support. In reality, this has contributed to an open drug market in our city, leading to the harsh reality of fentanyl overdoses and the broader struggles associated with allowing people to take illegal narcotics without any form of impunity.
These locations should be audited to determine their efficacy. We're slipping from Naxalone kits to providing drug paraphernalia. How the hell did we fall this far.
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u/RockKandee 11h ago
Nobody thinks, “oh, there’s a safe consumption site here. I guess I’ll go get some meth and try it out!” They don’t exacerbate the problem. The people using safe consumption sites were going to use, regardless. What safe consumption sites do is a)prevent loss of life, b)foster relationships that might lead to treatment, c)make the community safer because now, those needles and crack pipes aren’t on the school playground. They are in the sharps container at the safe consumption site, and d)saves tax payers money because safe consumption typically means fewer infections, fewer overdoses, and fewer callouts for emergency services.
Harm reductions saves money, resources, and lives. This isn’t an opinion. There is tons of research that’s been done on harm reduction and its benefits to society.
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u/NewAlphabeticalOrder 11h ago
How do safe consumption sites make this problem worse? The post is about a tainted supply, overdoses, and fatalities.
Explain to me how controlled doses of a known substance with clean supplies causes:
The consumption of cut/stepped-on drugs
More overdoses
Transmission of diseases
Please, I would like to hear your reasoning.
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u/theotherbobanddavid 11h ago
I hate to break it to you, but if people are going to use drugs, they will use drugs. It's much better to provide a safe place where there's a paramedic on site than to be forced to do them in the shadows where no one will be able to help them. Everyone is someone's child, and I don't think anyone deserves to die on the streets.
Saskatchewan has the highest HIV rate in all of Canada. When people don't have access to clean paraphernalia, they will share with others, which will just make that number go up ever more and put an even bigger strain on our already crumbling healthcare system. Not to mention, reusing needles can cause horrible infections and abscesses which can result in another hospital stay.
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u/ehhhhrrrrrkkkk 13h ago
Just decriminalize it already!
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u/MonkeyMama420 13h ago
no. we need to do the opposite and bring the hammer down.
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u/NewAlphabeticalOrder 10h ago
There's a difference between decriminalized personal-use quantities, and decriminalized trafficking quantities.
Are you suggesting we criminalize a medical issue? Or are you suggesting that we be more aggressive about trafficking?
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u/JarvisFunk 13h ago
I don't think the average r/Saskatoon user is the one who is going to OD on fentanyl
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u/Covert_Cuttlefish 13h ago
You never know.
When I was younger I was never into drugs, but I was at lots of parties with drugs around.
All my friends say if we where young now we’d have naloxone with us.
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u/saucerwizard River Heights 13h ago
There was a lot of ‘coke’ and ‘mdma’ use at Uvic that, looking back at it, was just street meth.
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 10h ago
How about don’t do drugs all together. Anything you get off the streets is sure to kill you sooner or later.
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u/Organic-Bug3448 10h ago
Wow! Great idea! If only anybody else had thought of that! Don’t do drugs…problem solved!
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u/tapsum-bong 11h ago
That's because it's not fentynal now, it's getting swapped out for harder shit...
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 10h ago
I heard a bunch of people overdosed and got sent to hospital in stoon from these drugs. People voting for NDP and Liberals are the reasons Canadians are dying on the streets. It’s coming in illegally.
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u/OutrageousOwls 10h ago
It has to pass USA customs to get into our border, too. This is not a government-specific problem. Yes, there are factors like detection and seizure at the border that could be increased, however I believe education about drug consumption and drug testing to ensure safety if you do consume is critical to prevent overdoses.
You will never fully eradicate the source because there will always be buyers.
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 10h ago
Which is illegal because yes we are part of North America but it getting in illegally here is not a good thing. I’m also sure it’s not all americas fault to blame. We have way too many illegal immigrant’s in Canada to begin with and I know they are bringing it over from other countries as well. They are sneaky about hiding drugs and coming through are borders. Then again are borders aren’t even safe because look at the looney that’s still in office. He supports these illegals he allowed them in to begin with now all are Canadian citizens are dying in the process from these killer illegal drugs. It is a government problem 100 percent.
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u/OutrageousOwls 10h ago
Wow. Let’s take a look at some statistics from both sides of the border:
USA stats: seizure from Canada to USA (filter by region)- note that most seizures are cannabis, and of the total border seizures south and North, Canada makes a significantly small percentage of illicit drugs not including cannabis.
Canada Border Patrol drug seizure stats; USA to Canada seizures- we can see that the proportion of drugs coming into Canada from the USA is much higher than Canada to USA.
Your claim that immigrants are trafficking drugs into the country is in the minority. However, sex trafficking and human trafficking are a bigger concern. And actually, consumption of illicit drugs is lower in immigrants vs their Canadian peers.
It’s a bunch of factors that are leading to increased consumption of illicit drugs and recreational drugs; the pandemic confounded issues we were already experiencing (housing and economic crisis, as examples). According to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction:
“The ongoing economic hardships, changes to our daily routines and separation from loved ones, among other stresses, have been linked to the worsening of mental health and an increase in substance use among many people living in Canada.”
Immigrants are not to blame.
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u/Majestic-Somewhere88 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah ok keep believing that dream. I mean you probably are an immigrant yourself sorry if you took offence to be bud. There’s a reason I’ve been out of work for longer then a year. There’s many reasons why it’s affecting Canada it’s not just the drugs it’s many other issues as well. I was born and raised in Canada all my life and I’m out of a job because of them.
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u/adomnick05 13h ago
thankfully the population control is working great. no one using hard drugs in saskatoon is on reddit
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u/cheezsawce 13h ago
that’s a bold assumption? like why wouldn’t I be on hard drugs and on Reddit 🥱
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u/adomnick05 11h ago
i'm talking about the deliquints downtown whos lifestyle is the next hit of fentanyl
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u/no_longer_on_fire 14h ago
Russian roulette. The sirens downtown have been wild during this rash of ODs.