CASANET News ... Interior Health's administrator for mental health and
substance use says there were few new ideas shared at a town hall in Vernon on
Tuesday ... McEwan said there was a shortage of meaningful suggestions based on
facts or tested measures ...
This is
why the Interior Health Authority (IHA) has such a bad reputation with its
treatment of the truth.
It
seems to be run by marketers rather than health professionals, first trying to
tell us that 99% of the needles handed out were recovered (and eventually
apologizing for that published figure, and now skewing the numbers ** and suggesting that the "majority"
of people want an overdose prevention site (OPS).
There are two problems with this.
There are two problems with this.
First,
the most raucous cheering of the night was when someone said "we don't
want an OPS".
Second,
the service providers all showed up in a block, as usual, so even if IHA's
statement were true, it isn't at all representative of the citizens' wishes.
Interior Health simply hears what it wants to hear ** and ignores the rest. Let's see if they are as attentive to the request by Vernon Council, the Chamber, and the DVA that the Overdose Prevention Sites stay away from downtown.
Interior Health simply hears what it wants to hear ** and ignores the rest. Let's see if they are as attentive to the request by Vernon Council, the Chamber, and the DVA that the Overdose Prevention Sites stay away from downtown.
~~~ Scott Anderson
** Interior Health's administrator for
mental health and substance use, Colleen McEwan said, "I did notice that
13 people were in support of an overdose prevention site, and I think only
three people actually came forward and said they weren't in favour, so that was
interesting,"
** "I didn't hear anything really new. I didn't hear a lot of
evidence-based practices that worked in other communities or communities
similar to ours."
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