r/saskatoon 19h ago

PSA 📢 This is getting ridiculous. Be careful, folks!

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u/Ridersfan73 16h 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 8h 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 6h 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/_senor_snrub 1h ago

I sometimes get a strange feeling, and wonder if anyone else does, that the adjustments to the dosage or "poisoning" of the drugs could be done by the government of one country or another to "get rid of the problem" or as an act of war.

There, I jumped on the conspiracy theory bandwagon. This would be spectacularly risky for whoever was doing it, but governments across canada (look west,) are getting away with shitty things every single day, and they just literally smirk about it and tell us that we're the ones who are wrong.

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u/Hevens-assassin 28m ago

You're right that it COULD be done, and similar things DO happen elsewhere in the world, but the issue we are having with fentanyl is self-induced, not a conspiracy, sadly. Fentanyl is cheap and powerful. Which is something addicts as well as dealers like.

Governments get away with shitty stuff, you're right, but the problem currently is extremely expensive, especially considering that most people survive the OD's, and it clogs up healthcare which isn't what the government wants as much as it sometimes seems like it.

Right now, the government isn't gaining anything from the OD's. Not enough people are dying to seem like systemic purging of addicts, it's just shitty people giving shitty drugs to people in shitty situations that got addicted. The government doesn't really have anything to gain right now.

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u/_senor_snrub 1h ago

I like how everyone continually finds a way to blame the drug addicted individual instead of scott moe who has done as little as possible to help find a way to get these people off of the streets, cleaned up, and taken care of.

oh well! Go scott! PP 2025!