#drug crisis

[commonsensecommentary]

“The funding would bolster "harm reduction" strategies, which the Radical Left dresses up as "evidence-based." It often does little more than enable addicts, distributing drug paraphernalia like fentanyl pipes, clean needles and "booty-bumping" kits, under the guise of reducing harm.”

#leadership #government #biden #democrats #blue cities #Failed blue cities #drug addiction #drug crisis #fentanyl deaths #fentanyl crisis

[longreads]

This week, our editors recommend stories about:

How the opioid crisis took eight friends’ lives.

The longest siege in modern history.

The football player who walked away from the NFL.

The scholar who helped an art smuggling operation flourish.

The Not-So-Great Canadian Baking Show

Check out this week’s Top 5!

#longreads #longform #nonfiction #top 5 #journalism #drug crisis #war #NFL #art #canadian baking show

[lenbryant]

Rep. Kaur Porter truth tells on drugs and the border.

#politics #maga me sick #republicans #maga #trump #drug crisis

[ashtonderoy]

Getting to know Ashton Deroy

Written by Ashton Deroy Posting From Belleville Ontario I am 30. Autistic and I have a last name with origins in the French Revolution. This blog is going to do 2 things. I will use it as a Mental Health journal, to discuss history & my Politics. In posts about personal Engagement. http://ashtonderoy.com/2024/02/21/would-i-consider-not-writing-about-my-family-ashton-deroy-explains/ I am really…

View On WordPress

#ADHD #Ashton Deroy #Autism #Bay of Quinte #Belleville Ontario #Blogger #Drug Crisis #Farmer&039;s Market #History #Loyalist College #Ontario #Politics #Quinte West #Toronto

[youthincare]

Overdose emergency crisis occurring in Belleville. Yes this is happening all over Canada. Everyone's got their solutions. Except nothing is going to work because a room costs 1200$ now and ODSP only gives up to 1500$ and Welfare hasn't budged past 723(?) in Ontario.

Middle class people ended up homeless. Healthy middle class people. Imagine what the fuck it did to us who already had financial and mental health/addiction struggles.

I have lost so many friends so early in their 20's because foster kids aging out CANNOT handle this crisis alone yet we are pushed out legally on our 18th birthday. Wake the fuck up about Capital, y'all.

#belleville #opioid crisis #drug crisis #cdn politics #Youtube

[toomuchbroadwayquotes]

One of my dearest friends from out of town told on our last encounter that she is on a "Mimi phase"(rent reference) and it broke my heart, I didn't say anything because truly I do not judge her, if it's what she needs to do to go on with her life, well she is an adult and she can choose that, but there are so many young adults right now that are so depressed and broken that they live half lives burried in addictions... No it's not simply having fun, it's not normal, the consistency and frequency ppl are using and drinking it's not a healthy amount, and no one seems to be looking, no one cares as long as we show up Monday 8 am at the office, the next 20 years will be hard on the market tho, most of the workforce will be dead or too sick to work.

#mental health crisis #drug crisis #we are not ok

[kimsiever]

Lethbridge hit record drug deaths in 2023

View On WordPress

#alberta #budget #drug crisis #lethbridge #politics

[visionsofthefu]

Those with mental health disorders are more likely to develop drug problems, which is why current laws are unequipped to deal with the so called "Drug Crisis". Maybe Anus Sarwar will remember that the next time he cosies up to imperialistic colonisers from England when he talks about

Scotland's so called

"Drug Crisis".

#Anas Sarwar #labour #drug crisis #Scotland

[madewithonerib]

5.] The Daily Grind

10 days, every hour = 6shifts/d [4hr/shift]

Sixty prayer shifts & if we take four people off drugs that's 240. [48:30] 

I know you understand numbers here because you have prayer shifts—also with people. So there we were, people coming to the LORD & growing up & doing rather well.

Then leaving, and doing rather well. Then leaving, yes it is like that with the poor, one thing you must never do is to try to identify leaders too soon.

It's killing, you cannot. [49:22] 

     They're not there for you to shape your future      Ministry, or run it, or inherit it! They are there      to be loved, and cared for. And allowed to fail      because they're worth it!

     Because HE died for them & HE died for me &      thought apparently I was [worth it]

So it didn't look that good.

Because they came & they went. [50:01] 

5.1] Putting to Death the Old Man

Romans 6:6 | ⁶ We know that our old self was crucified with HIM so the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

There was one called Ah-Chow, I loved Ah-Chow.

I'd met him & told him about JESUS & he received JESUS—he was a gangster from another gang. I had met him again in court.

It's a long story.

When he saw me in court, he had decided to plead guilty, instead of not guilty—which he was going to plead. But because he caught he saw me out of the corner of his eye..

It's a long story, eventually Ah-Chow says he really wants to get off drugs & he comes to live with us.

On day two, he changed his mind.

Now people do

……………………………………………………………………..………..      It's called the old man in the new man ……………………………………………………………………..………..

We've learned to listen to the new man, not to talk to the old man. “I don't expect you to understand.”

But he said,

   “Now I've decided I don't want to follow    JESUS after all. I think I need to leave…”

So I said, “You cannot leave, we're going to pray in tongues & you'll be fine.” And he said, “I will not! I'm leaving & you cannot stop me.”

And I said, “I will. You see, I believe you when you said 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗦. That is what I believe. I don't believe what you're saying now.”

He said, “I will jump!”

We were living on the seventh floor at that time.

I've rented or borrowed over 300 places over the years to pray people off drugs. This one was on a 7th floor & he said, “I'm gonna jump.”

I'm terrified of heights, so I turned my back & said OK, he disappeared & later on I looked & I couldn't see a puddle at the bottom—so I went to the lady in the apartment next door.

The balconies are a long way apart, but I thought he might have done it—so she was an Indian, and I said

“Would you mind if I looked on your balcony? I've lost a boy,” & she said “oh yes, I am having a difficult son—so I understand.”

So I looked on her balcony, I couldn't see anything & I came back. I think I'll look again. Drug addicts are very clever—very clever!

He was hiding in a corner.

I don't know how he could have hidden, but there he was—so she said, “Oh you are having a good time with your son?” Yes & so anyway, he refused to go into the apartment where we were praying him off drugs.

Who was helping me?

At that time no one, but over the years we've had lots of people who've come for a while & some people who have come here today with me.

—who've stayed many years & he said: “I'm not going in! I'm leaving”

And I said, “I'm not going to let you leave.”

I held onto the stair banisters,” & he said, “I'll scream.” I said, “Okay scream, but I'm not letting you go.” So he screamed & he really screamed. The neighbors started walking down the stairs..

“My difficult son, you know.”

The screaming didn't work & he said, “I'm gonna strip!” So I said, “Okay strip.” Well he did, but he only down to the underpants.

And I wondered why he went only that far? You know, so eventually he got exhausted, I outlasted him and the brothers who were in the apartment saw that he was tired & said, “Come & take a bath!”

And so we took him into the apartment.

They discovered why he'd left the underpants on:

    because he had 6 watches stuffed down his     underpants—which he was going to pawn     when he ran away. So yeah very smart.

Anyway there was nothing for it after the bath.

He started reluctantly to pray in tongues; & of course after that, he went straight asleep.

The LORD is so kind & the next day:

Day three, I remember him coming into the sitting room & saying I have so much to learn: We started the miracle is one thing, the growing up is another..

5.2] Disappointing Lack of Growth [55:22] 

We've seen them come, we've seen them go.

And apparently sometimes we have had nothing to show—& I read about my friends in other countries running their groups & multiplying their cells.

And having civilized alpha dinners.

You don't have alpha here, no it's very civilized; & we were losing them as fast as we were gaining them.

Persevere says the LORD.

One day it somehow seemed to turn around.

   •  We kept four, then there were five.    •  We lost three & so on & so on

And I don't know why it happened

It doesn't matter where it happened: You see for me I would stay.

Anyway you understand.

I'd lost my Ministry.

I was no longer a street Evangelist—I was a reluctant house mother trapped looking after these men who didn't seem to be changing quickly.

Then one day, somehow there we were:

The government lent us some tin huts & believers from all over Hong Kong used to come & worship with us—It got to be quite well known.

Testing of Your Faith 1,2,3,4,5,6 | Jackie Pullinger [Hebrews 12:1-3]

#Jackie Pullinger #Drug Crisis #Testing of Your Faith #Persevere #Lack of Growth #Disappointment #Romans 6:6 #Putting to Death the Old Man

[craniopagi]

#thalidomide #fetal regression #drug crisis #limb difference #experiemental leg brace #leg brace #prosthetic

[elizabethrogers]

Indescribably sad!

#fentanyl #drugs #drug abuse #homeless #border security #southern border #sad #drug crisis #crisis

[newsreadersin]

Drug Crisis: PCB order may cause to drug crisis in India

Drug Crisis: PCB order may cause to drug crisis in India

In the case of plastic-packaging, the state’s pharma industry has also been threatened with cancellation of NOC by the state’s industrial units. If about 300 units manufacturing medicines operating in Uttarakhand are closed on the orders of the Pollution Control Board, then there can be a crisis of medicines across the country. In Uttarakhand, more than 300 pharma units manufacture medicines in…

View On WordPress

#Drug Crisis #PCB #Uttarakhand Drug Crisis #Uttarakhand News

[phoenixfreya]

Halloween This Year! 2022

Now I'm sure many of us have thought about this at some point recently. With the Drugs Feytnal ( However it's spelt, You get the point ). Does it really seem safe to let them go Trick-R-Treating? I cry just knowing that they have made it look just like candy and people are targeting children with this.

#economy #world crisis #keep kids safe #halloween #trickrtreat #drug trafficking #drug crisis

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #10

March 15-22 2024

The EPA announced new emission standards with the goal of having more than half of new cars and light trucks sold in the US be low/zero emission by 2032. One of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, it'll eliminate 7 billion tons of CO2 emissions over the next 30 years. It's part of President Biden's goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 on the road to eliminating them totally by 2050.

President Biden canceled nearly 6 Billion dollars in student loan debt. 78,000 borrowers who work in public sector jobs, teachers, nurses, social workers, firefighters etc will have their debt totally forgiven. An additional 380,000 public service workers will be informed that they qualify to have their loans forgiven over the next 2 years. The Biden Administration has now forgiven $143.6 Billion in student loan debt for 4 million Americans since the Supreme Court struck down the original student loan forgiveness plan last year.

Under Pressure from the administration and Democrats in Congress Drugmaker AstraZeneca caps the price of its inhalers at $35. AstraZeneca joins rival Boehringer Ingelheim in capping the price of inhalers at $35, the price the Biden Admin capped the price of insulin for seniors. The move comes as the Federal Trade Commission challenges AstraZeneca’s patents, and Senator Bernie Sanders in his role as Democratic chair of the Senate Health Committee investigates drug pricing.

The Department of Justice sued Apple for being an illegal monopoly in smartphones. The DoJ is joined by 16 state attorneys general. The DoJ accuses Apple of illegally stifling competition with how its apps work and seeking to undermining technologies that compete with its own apps.

The EPA passed a rule banning the final type of asbestos still used in the United States. The banning of chrysotile asbestos (known as white asbestos) marks the first time since 1989 the EPA taken action on asbestos, when it passed a partial ban. 40,000 deaths a year in the US are linked to asbestos

President Biden announced $8.5 billion to help build advanced computer chips in America. Currently America only manufactures 10% of the world's chips and none of the most advanced next generation of chips. The deal with Intel will open 4 factories across 4 states (Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon) and create 30,000 new jobs. The Administration hopes that by 2030 America will make 20% of the world's leading-edge chips.

President Biden signed an Executive Order prioritizing research into women's health. The order will direct $200 million into women's health across the government including comprehensive studies of menopause health by the Department of Defense and new outreach by the Indian Health Service to better meet the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native Women. This comes on top of $100 million secured by First Lady Jill Biden from ARPA-H.

Democratic Senators Bob Casey, Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, and Jacky Rosen (all up for re-election) along with Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Sheldon Whitehouse, introduced the "Shrinkflation Prevention Act" The Bill seeks to stop the practice of companies charging the same amount for products that have been subtly shrunk so consumers pay more for less.

The Department of Transportation will invest $45 million in projects that improve Bicyclist and Pedestrian Connectivity and Safety

The EPA will spend $77 Million to put 180 electric school buses onto the streets of New York City This is part of New York's goal to transition its whole school bus fleet to electric by 2035.

The Senate confirmed President Biden's nomination of Nicole Berner to the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Berner has served as the general counsel for America's largest union, SEIU, since 2017 and worked in their legal department since 2006. On behalf of SEIU she's worked on cases supporting the Affordable Care Act, DACA, and against the Defense of Marriage act and was part of the Fight for 15. Before working at SEIU she was a staff attorney at Planned Parenthood. Berner's name was listed by the liberal group Demand Justice as someone they'd like to see on the Supreme Court. Berner becomes one of just 5 LGBT federal appeals court judges, 3 appointed by Biden. The Senate also confirmed Edward Kiel and Eumi Lee to be district judges in New Jersey and Northern California respectively, bring the number of federal judges appointed by Biden to 188.

#Thanks Biden #Joe Biden #Democrats #politics #US politics #climate change #climate crisis #student loans #debt forgiveness #shrinkflation #women's health #drug prices

[kimsiever]

Lethbridge EMS drug responses on the rise again

Lethbridge EMS drug responses on the rise again

Recently, the Government of Alberta updated the data on the Alberta substance use surveillance system, which it uses to communicate information about substance use in the province. The new data includes EMS responses to opioid-related events up to the end of July 2022. Hospitalization and SCS usage data haven’t been updated beyond March, and deaths haven’t been updated since May. My last story…

View On WordPress

#alberta #drug crisis #healthcare #lethbridge #politics

[beaft]

finding out that most other people have an internal monologue fucked me up so bad i swear. what do you MEAN you have a little voice talking inside your head the whole time? does that not drive you nuts???

#for fully 24 years of my life i thought the whole 'a voice piped up inside his head' thing was just like #a metaphor #the only time i have a voice in my head is when i'm thinking about poetry or song lyrics or remembering something someone else said #i realised this at the worst possible time (on acid/lost in a wood) and had a mild existential crisis #drugs mention cw