Health committee  I do know that you can pass it on with pipes, that clean pipes would be helpful. I don't know the statistics, but I know that clean pipes, clean equipment, clean needles, obviously, do the same thing.

Health committee  I see people in and out of jail all the time. Even the police I speak to, the ambulance people, the firefighters, all know that we need to get folks safe access to something that's not going to kill them. That's the first line of front-line treatment, especially with people who h

Health committee  I believe that it's going to cost our country a lot more if we continue the way we are going right now, and that we need to do something we haven't done before. This is a national health crisis. We need to call it that and move forward in a big way, or else we're in big trouble.

Health committee  It's operating under the basis that it's a provincial crisis. We don't have a federal exemption, but it is operating because of the provincial crisis.

Health committee  In my opinion, the more people we get safe access to drugs, the more we're taking people like him out of the picture completely. We need people to get safe access to dosed drugs and to be seen and cared for by medical professionals. I think that's really the biggest solution in t

Health committee  Yes, or a stimulant replacement. People need to get care. Some choose to use drugs, but a lot of folks are using drugs because they're self-medicating for a variety of reasons and they need medical care. A lot of these people are the most vulnerable in society. We need to work o

Health committee  We have a place called the Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver. Probably no one has heard about it, except maybe Don and a few others. It gives safe access to heroin to about 100 people. It's injectable, and there are doctors available there to help them. It's a very small program, and

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for having me here today. I want to start with a personal story about going to California in the nineties to work and living with a bunch of young people. Lots of people went to school. Everybody had jobs in the sports, entertainment and music