Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Vancouver, B.C.: What it's like at an Overdose Prevention Site
https://www.straight.com/city-culture/what-its-really-like-at-an-overdose-prevention-site
* addiction: public health, not criminal issue
* overdose prevention sites provide health care, engage vulnerable populations, save lives
* populist politicians (conservatives mostly) target those sites for closure, while demonizing addiction, social-economic precarity, homelessness
* 2024: B.C. Premier David Eby announced B.C. expanding involuntary care << medical, poverty industrial complex
