Western Standard - March 14, 2024


The failure of addiction enablement ideology

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Prince George Kevin Dahlgren
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6 minutes

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161.15

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1,070

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85

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1

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Addiction is out of control, and the havoc is spreading. Canada's addiction enablement cult has become a religion, and they're incapable of reason. No matter how stark the evidence of the failure of their policy gets, they refuse to face reality. Rather than rethinking the notion that enabling addiction will save addicts, they just keep doubling down as the policies fail and lives are lost.

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00:00:00.180 The addiction enablement cult, it just keeps going and going, and Canada's addiction enablement cult is out of control, and the havoc's spreading.
00:00:07.220 And yes, they're a cult, and that's what I'm going to call them.
00:00:09.580 I mean, how else can we characterize them?
00:00:11.560 No matter how stark the evidence of the failure of their policy gets, they just refuse to face reality.
00:00:16.520 Rather than rethinking the notion that enabling addiction will save addicts, they just keep doubling down as the policies fail and lives are lost.
00:00:24.480 Their ideology, it's become a religion, and they're incapable of reason.
00:00:28.580 Policymakers in the courts have embraced the tenets of the cult, and B.C. is ground zero.
00:00:33.200 I mean, the courts in B.C. have declared it a charter right for addicts to consume meth and fentanyl in children's playgrounds.
00:00:39.120 I wish I was making this up, but you'll still be ticketed if you smoke a cigarette within 10 minutes of a doorway.
00:00:44.440 Yes, it's that insane.
00:00:46.620 Then, of course, there's the notion of safe consumption.
00:00:48.920 It's been pushed for years.
00:00:50.360 Drug consumption centers have sprung up in urban centers across the country, and they've invariably been a disaster.
00:00:56.020 The one in Lethbridge, Alberta, got shut down for corruption issues.
00:00:58.820 People are begging for the one in Red Deer to be shut down because it's turned the area into a disaster zone.
00:01:03.580 The centers destroy neighborhoods as the drug dealers follow the addicts and bring their associated crime with them.
00:01:08.720 The safe consumption concept fails as well as the fatal overdoses are continuing to break record levels every year.
00:01:15.960 It's an easy statistic to monitor, unfortunately, and it's pretty undeniable.
00:01:20.040 Addiction is spreading and it's killing more people despite the advent of safe consumption centers.
00:01:24.520 The cult's also, it's like it's focused on the myth that drug addiction itself is not a condition that must be cured.
00:01:31.160 They see it as something that can be managed, you know, if we just managed it safely.
00:01:34.240 If only addicts could get a pure enough supply of drugs and a nice place to consume them, they'll be living okay.
00:01:39.460 They refuse to admit that the drugs themselves are the problem and propagate the myth that it's only impure street drugs that kill addicts.
00:01:46.240 That leads to their absurd and fatal provision of a safe supply of drugs.
00:01:51.080 There's no such thing as a safe supply of fentanyl or meth.
00:01:53.960 Do they think if a shot of heroin was pure enough, it wouldn't kill the user eventually?
00:01:58.760 Yes, that's actually what they believe.
00:02:00.720 Still, the cultists have gotten their way and BC's been handing out drugs to addicts like candies.
00:02:04.620 And not only have fatal overdoses risen over there since then, but so has the number of new addicts.
00:02:10.540 The addicts accept the drugs handed out, then trade them with street dealers for stronger drugs.
00:02:14.340 Those dealers then use that nice safe supply to sell and create new addicts.
00:02:19.620 Nice fresh ones to keep their business expanding as the other ones die off.
00:02:22.800 Anybody with a grain of common sense could have seen that coming.
00:02:25.720 Anybody but a cultist, that is.
00:02:27.500 RCMP and Prince George, BC recently seized over 10,000 pills.
00:02:31.520 It sounds like most of them were from safe supply prescriptions.
00:02:36.000 Now, BC Premier E.B. was quick to claim that the RCMP were mistaken in identifying the source of the drugs as being from safe supply sources.
00:02:42.720 E.B. doesn't need evidence to make such a claim, of course.
00:02:44.520 Cultists don't need evidence.
00:02:46.500 Police officers do, however, and their evidence points to the safe supply handouts.
00:02:50.360 The enablement cult has also claimed it's the lack of safe shelters for drug consumption that leads to these deaths.
00:02:55.960 Homeless shelters, you see, they won't allow the consumption of drugs within their facilities, and for good reason. 1.00
00:03:00.480 They can hardly help people get back on their feet if they're surrounded by others with rampant drug use around them.
00:03:06.360 Try to convince the single mother who's caught in a shelter to stay there with her kids while she's surrounded by addicts in the grips of meth-induced psychosis.
00:03:12.860 Most of the homeless we see on the streets are addicts.
00:03:15.340 The enablement cultists continually deny that, but one only needs to walk among them for a few minutes and see the pipes and syringes and know that reality.
00:03:22.040 The enablement cult has managed to get funding for and open shelters now in BC where drug consumption's allowed.
00:03:28.220 Yeah, they've done it. They've created the nirvana for addicts that they claim is required.
00:03:32.700 The addicts are given safe supplies, and they have a safe place to consume them, but they can crash there now as well as if it was any other shelter.
00:03:40.520 Now, those shelters quickly turned into dystopian nightmares, and they look like opium dens of old.
00:03:45.860 There's an activist, Ken Dahlgren. I strongly suggest you try and look it up.
00:03:49.820 He got footage from within the PHS Community Services Society Addiction Enablement Shelter in Vancouver, and he posted on X.
00:03:58.020 Addicts are passed out in different states of inebriation on filthy mattresses on the floor.
00:04:02.180 There's body fluids sprayed on the walls, and shouts and screaming can be heard behind strangely locked doors.
00:04:06.980 It looks like something out of a horror movie.
00:04:08.460 How can anybody tour such a facility and still claim it's helping anybody?
00:04:13.200 I mean, nobody can, unless they've embraced the enablement as a religion. 0.59
00:04:17.260 They're blind to reality, and the state's funding their delusion.
00:04:20.020 There's not going to be an easy solution to be found for the addiction epidemic.
00:04:23.260 Treatment's limited and expensive, and not all addicts are willing to take part in it.
00:04:26.880 We do know what won't work, though, and that's enablement.
00:04:29.660 The enablement cult is populated by academics, activists, politicians.
00:04:33.220 One thing lacking within that cult, though, are the voices of recovered addicts.
00:04:37.560 They know what won't work, and they support treatment rather than enablement.
00:04:41.520 This cult must be defunded, guys, and we've got to shut it down.
00:04:44.160 Until it is, this addiction epidemic is only going to continue to spread and get worse.
00:05:03.220 So, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:05:33.200 Turn around.
00:05:58.060 This is Metallica. Remember them?
00:06:00.060 Yeah, it's not good. I remember them.
00:06:01.500 That was a good band, brother.
00:06:03.200 I totally f***ing turned around.
00:06:30.600 Hey. 0.91
00:06:31.940 Look at the rest of these.
00:06:35.780 I just hurt my tooth.
00:06:36.980 Oh, yeah, me too.
00:06:37.740 Oh.