El paraíso es divulgado por la radio…
Lo que incluso no
pueden ocultar los principales medios de información
De niños que son
encarcelados, o mueren de sobredosis de drogas
De una indigencia
que ha tomado las calles y lugares públicos
De personas sin
techo que agonizan en silencio bajo puentes
De olvidados, que
sobreviven en parques y bosques
De radiodifusores
que niegan, desprecian, e ignoran la pobreza
Que se desliza
por las constreñidas puertas del
infierno imperialista
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jino-distasio/federal-budget-homelessness_b_16081052.html
In North American cities like New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto
and countless others, we have grown accustomed to seeing people who are
homeless walk among us, often in the shadows, often with visible signs
of duress from addiction, mental illness or basic hopelessness. Simply
put, we've become desensitized to the everyday experiences of persons
visibly homeless in our cities and communities.
There is also little difference in cities in Europe or Australia that share North America's inability to address chronic homelessness through policy, programs or funding that offer long-term solutions to improve well-being and improve housing stability.
But change is possible.
Budget 2017 earmarked a whopping $11 billion for housing and homelessness across the country. There's no doubt this will have a big impact. However, these funds must not only build affordable housing, they must align with poverty reduction strategies and mental health and recovery initiatives currently underway if we are to truly reduce long-term homelessness.
A meaningful impact requires funding a broad range of supports to ensure fewer Canadians are among the estimated 35,000 who have no place to call home on any given night. Perhaps this historic funding and the pending release of the National Housing Strategy (NHS) give reason for hope.
Canada’s overdose crisis (Part 2): 'Pop-up' injection sites
http://observers.france24.com/en/20170331-canada-overdose-crisis-pop-injection-sites-part-2
Canada is grappling with what its federal health minister called a “serious and growing opioid crisis”, which has caused an unprecedented rise in overdose deaths across the country. In the face of a slow response by authorities, some people are opening their own pop-up safe injection sites. Here’s the second of our two-part article looking into the overdose crisis. Read the first part here.
Over the course of 2016, the opioid crisis in the Canadian province of British Columbia began to snowball. In that year, 922 people died of an overdose of an illicit drug — marking a huge jump from 2015, when 513 people died. Frustrated with authorities’ slowness to get measures in place, some residents have taken matters into their own hands.
Government advertising warning of the signs of an overdose and what to do next.
A community response
Supervised injection sites are places where drug users can go to use drugs, in a safe, sanitary, and monitored environment. Users need only bring their drug of choice – the site provides clean needles, tourniquets, cookers and other equipment they may need. The presence of trained staff means that in the event of an overdose, users can immediately be administered naloxone, an antidote that can reverse an overdose. And the stats show it works: at one supervised injection site, Insite, there were 4,922 overdoses in the 2015-2016 period, and no deaths because staff were there to intervene.
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