Vancouver is the only Canadian City where addicts are allowed to inject
On Thursday, April 14, 2016, BC’s provincial health officer
On Thursday, April 14, 2016, BC’s provincial health officer
Declared a public health emergency in response to the rise in
Drug overdoses and deaths
Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis in Vancouver Coastal Health
This is a Public Health Emergency in BC
Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis in Vancouver Coastal Health
This is a Public Health Emergency in BC
Because even Communities outside the Lower Mainland
ADDRESSING THE CAUSES OF VANCOUVER'S OVERDOSE CRISIS:
Our Government has made this a job creation program
It's almost impossible to fix in BC.now
The only way they can control it now is
B.C.'s top health officer has recommended the province move urgently to decriminalize possession of illegal drugs for personal use,
Saying the years-long overdose crisis needs to be treated as
A public health issue,
Not a criminal justice matter
'Immediate provincial action is warranted,'
to 'urgently' decriminalize possession of illicit drugs
Build thousands of affordable and supportive housing units to permanently house people who are homeless and in unstable living conditions.
The Drug Dealers
We have to Stop putting them in Communities all by themselves
With absolutely no Help and very little support after they move in
All they do is just continue selling drugs
This is turning Vancouver into the Drug Capital of Canada
Because of the present system that we have today
We have to
Advocate for the Province to deliver more low-threshold opioid replacement programs for methadone, suboxone, hydromorphone, and diacetylmorphine treatment.
Establish a program for city-wide needle collection and distribution using sharps boxes where people who inject drugs can safely dispose of used needles.
Implement a building code that makes sharps boxes mandatory in all new public facilities
Open up staffed safe spaces in existing public facilities as points of care for people who use drugs all over BC.
Open up staffed safe spaces in existing public facilities as points of care for people who use drugs all over BC.
Advocate for the Federal Government to expand the
Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act
We need to expand this law to immunize all of those at the scene of an overdose against arrest
This is why we have to do this
It's what side of the sidewalk are the
Drug Dealers dealing from
The Street side of the sidewalk
Its a Police problem
Drug Dealers will go to jail
The Building Side of the sidewalk
The Home Owners or Apartment Owners
Have to take the Drug Pusher to the
Residential Tenancy Branch
[ This can takes years ]
All the police can do is sit across the street and watch
Because under the
Residential Tenancy Branch
These people have rights so
Even with Police evidence
The law is there to protect them
Making it almost impossible for you to win
Even if you do win
It can cost you almost everything you own
The Drug Dealers gets Free Legal Help
The Outreach Worker will do their job
And find them another Place
It's will be just down the block because
The Drug Dealer gets to choose their new apartment
It will be close to their Clientele
The Drug Dealer will never lose a sale
Residential Tenancy Branch
It is a real injustice it was design not to work
Because the courts do not follow the Law, of the City, Police,
Animal Control and the Fire Department and Building Dept.
Making It Pure Hell for the people that have to deal with the
Residential Tenancy Branch
The employees are putting this out
Because Jails and Hospitals cost money
Our Government is making this a job creation program
The Government is working very hard setting up
Housing programs that support these people in our communities.
Like the MPA SOCIETY
THE SOLO Program
THE SOLO Program
[Supported Outreach Living Opportunity]
The Governments problem is there is no way a
Home Owner or Apartment Owner
The Governments problem is there is no way a
Home Owner or Apartment Owner
Will let a Drug Pusher into their Building
The Workers have to find these people Apartments
So the Workers just dump these people on the Landlords
Even the Workers do not know their history
The Home Owner or Apartment Owner
Not one word about their history [nothing]
It's always
This is such a Beautiful Building
We would love to keep it this way
So we have a really good tenant for you
They will be so good for your Building
Once the Drug Dealer has moved in
All the Landlord hears
They have the right to stay, you have the right to leave
It's day after day of police, ambulance and fire trucks
It's one complaint after another
They destroy the neighborhood and your building
This is what they leave behind
Apartment 101 One Death
Apartment 208 One week in Hospital
Apartment 203 One OD
One of the Drug Dealers three ODs
It will cost thousands to fix 203 place
And about two months work
This is how we are getting them out
The Drug Dealer in 203 phone the police
Because 302 stole her heroin
That started a war
They kick each others door down plus other doors in the building
The police came in and arrested them
203 is now renting her mothers basement
MPA is paying her mother to rent to her
302 the police boarded up his door
And I will not let him in with out the police and a moving truck
At 3:30 July 21 2019
The Outreach Worker just phone me
What you are doing is illegal
You can not lock the Heroin Dealer out of his place
You must abide by the law
Residential Tenancy Branch says
A landlord can not lock anyone out of their apartment
The police boarded up the Heroin Dealers door
And I will not let him in with out the police and a moving truck
We go to court
This is his door
