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Peer-reviewed research confirms we can’t cure drug addiction with publicly funded harmful drugs, warehousing people, or decriminalizing drug possession.  Police rarely charge people with personal use amounts of drugs.

Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Chow reports just 14 individuals charged per year for repeated use near schools/daycares, out of ~240,000 police calls/year.  For the last decade, police focused on: drug traffickers, importers and manufacturers.

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Honourable Government of Canada and Government of BC members

We all want a compassionate, successful solution to Canada's growing addiction crisis. After a costly 20-year experiment, medical experts and health researchers can confirm that more publicly funded harmful drugs, ironically termed "safe supply" or "drug decriminalization" are not the correct path to recovery. We see this failed experiment every day in our major cities, from Toronto to Vancouver, facing rising overdoses and deaths, more homelessness, first responder fatigue and community chaos with growing violence and crime.

Lobbied by activist groups who directly benefit, governments have spent billions of our tax dollars provincially and federally on reckless, dysfunctional programs for addictions and mental health, or warehousing the homeless with no success measurements and shoddy accounting practices, revealed through forensic audits.

British Columbians and Canadians are fed up, evidenced by recent polls.

We demand the provincial and federal governments focus on proven solutions contained in this 20-year RESEARCH the BC government tried to destroy.

http://www.sfu.ca/carmha/publications/c2abc.html

This research found the major goals of those struggling with addictions included: resuming paid work, overcoming their addictions and reconnecting with children or other family members. Current "harm reduction" programs are just helping people get high more, say addicts themselves. “Alcohol is legally available to adults and is associated with more violence and crime than any other drug.” – Journal of Community Safety and Wellbeing (December 2022)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Mental Health & Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett, Premier David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Minister of Mental Health & Addictions Jennifer Whiteside and Official Opposition Leaders: We are asking you to change course now.

Follow the best practices in Portugal and Italy that focus on successful recovery-oriented treatment in therapeutic communities, and read Dr. Somers' Call to Action.

Thank-you for your careful consideration on this serious issue.

Contacts: Dr. Julian Somers, Registered Clinical Psychologist, Distinguished Professor Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University (SFU)
C: 1 (604) 290-3210 julian_somers@nullsfu.ca

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Honourable Government of Canada, Government of BC and Ontario members:

We all want a compassionate, successful solution to Canada’s growing addiction crisis. After a costly 20-year experiment, medical experts and health researchers can confirm that more publicly funded harmful drugs, ironically termed “safe supply”, or “drug decriminalization”, are not the correct paths to recovery.

We see this failed experiment every day in our major cities, from Toronto to Vancouver, facing rising overdoses and deaths, more homelessness, first responder fatigue and community chaos with growing violence and crime.

Lobbied by activist groups who directly benefit, governments have spent billions of our tax dollars on reckless, dysfunctional programs for addictions and mental health, or warehousing the homeless with no treatment or success measurements and shoddy accounting practices, revealed through forensic audits.

British Columbians and Canadians are fed up, evidenced by recent polls.

We demand the provincial and federal governments focus on proven solutions contained in this 20-year RESEARCH the BC government tried to destroy. This research found the major goals of those struggling with addictions included:

  • resuming paid work
  • overcoming their addictions and;
  • reconnecting with children or other family members.


Current “harm reduction” programs are just “helping people get high more”, say addicts themselves. “Alcohol is legally available to adults and is associated with more violence and crime than any other drug.” – Journal of Community Safety and Wellbeing (December 2022).  As the Toronto Coderix Addictions Clinic Medical Director Dr. Vincent Lam says in the Globe and Mail“Prescribed opioids were an integral part of the creation of this crisis. We are not going to be able to prescribe our way out of it.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Mental Health & Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett, Premier David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Minister of Mental Health & Addictions Jennifer Whiteside,  Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Official Opposition Leaders: We are asking you to change course now.

➡ Follow the best practices in Portugal and Italy that focus on successful recovery-oriented treatment in therapeutic communities.

➡ Read Dr. Somers’ Call to Action. You may contact Dr. Somers who can refer you to others with professional expertise across Canada.

Contact: Dr. Julian Somers, Registered Clinical Psychologist, Distinguished Professor Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University (SFU) C: 1 (604) 290-3210 julian_somers@nullsfu.ca

Thank-you for your serious consideration on this important issue.


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Demand real solutions from political leaders, not more failed experiments
and billions of dollars of tax money wasted.

Provincial and Federal Politicians

Federal Government & Official Opposition

The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party of Canada
Prime Minister
E: pm@nullpm.gc.ca
P: 613-992-4211

Health Minister
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos, MP
E: jean-yves.duclos@nullparl.gc.ca 
P: 613-992-8865

Minister of Mental Health & Addictions
Hon. Carolyn Bennett, MP
E: carolyn.bennett@nullparl.gc.ca
P: 613-995-9666

Federal Opposition Party Leaders

Pierre Poilievre
Leader of the Conservative Party, Official Opposition
E: pierre.poilievre@nullparl.gc.ca
P: 613-992-2772

Jagmeet Singh
Leader of the NDP
E: Jagmeet.Singh@nullparl.gc.ca
P: 613-947-0867

Elizabeth May
Leader of the Green Party’s Parliamentary Caucus
E: Elizabeth.May@nullparl.gc.ca
P: 613-996-1119

Yves-François Blanchet
Leader of the Bloc Québécois
E: Yves-Francois.Blanchet@nullparl.gc.ca
P: 613-992-6035

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BC Ministers & Official Opposition

Hon. David Eby, Premier of BC, NDP Party
E: premier@nullgov.bc.ca
P. 250-387-1715

Hon. Adrian Dix, BC Minister of Health
E: HLTH.Minister@nullgov.bc.ca 
P: 250-953-3547

Hon. Jennifer Whiteside, BC Minister of Mental Health & Addictions
E: MMHA.Minister@nullgov.bc.ca 
P: 250-952-7623

BC Liberal Party Official Opposition
Party Leader Kevin Falcon
E: kevin.falcon.mla@nullleg.bc.ca
P. 250-
356-6171

Elenore Sturko, Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Addiction, Recovery & Education
E: elenore.sturko.mla@nullleg.bc.ca
P. 250-356-6171

Shirley Bond, Shadow Minister for Health
E. Shirley.Bond.MLA@nullleg.bc.ca
P. 250-356-6171

Green Party of BC
Party Leader Sonia Furstenau
E: sonia.furstenau.MLA@nullleg.bc.ca
P: 250-387-8347

Ontario Ministers & Official Opposition

Hon. Doug Ford, Premier, Progressive Conservative Party of Ont.
E. premier@nullontario.ca
P. 416-325-1941

Hon. Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier, Minister of Health
E. Sylvia.Jones@nullpc.ola.org
P. 416-327-4300

Hon. Michael A.Tibollo, Associate Minister of Mental Health & Addictions
E. Michael.Tibolloco@nullpc.ola.org
P. 905-893-4428

New Democratic Party of Ontario
Marit Stiles, Leader
E. MStiles-QP@nullndp.on.ca
P. 416-326-7202

France Gélinas, Health Critic
E. gelinas-qp@nullndp.on.ca
P. 416-325-9203

Lisa Gretzky, Critic, Mental Health & Addictions
E. LGretzky-QP@nullndp.on.ca
P. 416-325-0235 

Liberal Party of Ontario
Interim leader John Fraser
E. jfraser.mpp.co@nullliberal.ola.org
P. 613-736-9573 

Green Party of Ontario
Mike Schreiner, Leader
E: mschreiner@nullola.org
P. 416-325-4664

Comments from Vancouver is Dying on YouTube.


The New York Times (Nov. 19/22) wrote: Did Billions in Spending Make a Dent in Homelessness? Canada Doesn’t Know. An auditor general’s report found that multi-billion-dollar federal housing programs weren’t tracked for homelessness reductions.

About 4.5 billion has been spent so far.