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I found work a huge boost to my overall mental health by doing my best for my God and for my employer. Dedication to a specific goal or cause can be a key moral factor in being successful in overcoming addiction. Dr.Somers sounds like he has a great deal of experience and knowledge of how to best treat people who struggle with addictions and mental health.

Thank you for your excellent advice about addictions and how to treat those affected by the drugs. Thank you again doctor.

Good luck finding anything in "life" that gives a comparable kick that's greater than the hit you get from a $3 pump on a pipe. Compound that with complex personal capacity issues like, being injured, having severe traumatic experiences, being of low IQ and EQ. There's no simple single solution. Perhaps we could spend more time and energy repairing, supporting, fostering stronger values and principles in our families, communities, and country that equip are children with better experience, confidence and tools to face the challenges with courage and grit. Safe supply was a great way to try, and we have learned, and now we can pivot and align with new attempts to try and learn again.

Necrophilia vampire gangs and abductions for torso blood and flesh. They are out there and necrophilia Sanguimancy police are making profits. Same ones that killed Chelsea poorman and other missing persons. Something close to Kellogs Cornflakes.

This is factually incorrect. Safe supply has been shown to reduce deaths from fentanyl spiking of drugs. The only thing he is saying that is right is that safe supply should be used in concert with other initiatives that remove the reasons for people to use drugs, but the tile is still misleading click-bait.

I feel you so much a Jimmy, I myself become so lost within a perplexing mix between the abuse that I've endured; stoking the addiction that I was burdened with. The struggle that I continue to preserve and fight against daily; through the begrudgingly optimistic lens of hope, challenged by my mental health, yet powered by my heart. Whether stigmatized by some, or helped by my peers, I do realize how broken the system is, but understand that there is another day to tomorrow. Here I'm wishing day after day that everyone can see that glimmer of light, because that glint of hope, holds me through. Love and hope from the Comox Valley.

Coming to just over 2 years sober now and I never would have thought that I would get sober again because I was so lost and tired of living with my life the ways it was like homelessness and jails institutions that I figured I was trapped in a cycle that I didn't know how to get out of much less deal with it emotionally mentally and yet here I sit and type this comment. Isn't it amazing how God can work in someone's life if we just come to him but for his saving grace abounds to everyone who is broken and wants to be healed by his love ❤️ ❤amen. Thanks for your compassion and truthfulness when looking at the topic of addiction and mental health

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Oh you allowed comments I guess you aren’t lying on this one! I’m a psychologist & behaviour analyst with three advanced degrees (Psy.D) who spent a decade at a research firm studying human behaviour patterns to a granularity you can’t imagine- yes for CSEC. Then I spent 14 years as an outreach worker and still do and work in safe supply. ALLOW COMMENTS ON YOUR POLITICAL OPINIONS!!!!! This is not a soapbox for your emotionally stunted hatred for yourself your project on the vulnerable. I will protect these people viciously- permit comments or 1) that ADMITS YOU ARE LYING AND CANT STAND UP TO FACTUAL STATEMENTS (and I will spam EVERYONE on EVERY short, vid anything until you allow both sides. Your trumpian lies and also the factual evidence based truth backed up by but not BASED ON anecdotes. This is the only way to comment to you. Between a decade as a research analyst and another as an outreach worker specifically often in safe supply I know the truth. I KNOW it saves lives- I do the math instead of assuming. I KNOW it’s a hub for the vulnerable to access medical care, housing, detox, system navigation (counselling and system navigation are my titles at the safe supply I work at) I KNOW it changes lives and gives opportunities to 1) survive and 2) flourish and become a contributing member of society. Diversion? Assisting the vulnerable is bad? Whatever nonsense you spout I can disprove if you didn’t BLOCK ALL COMMENTS. START ALLOWING BOTH SIDES OR I WILL GET ALL MY FRIENDS TO CONVINCE YOU UNTIL YOU DO. These are people I love and care about and if you think I’m going to do nothing while you spread hate and lies you have no idea who you are dealing with. Safe supply saves lives. The sites allow for life saving wound care, system navigation to access housing, medical care, food, education and training, detox, counselling, helping them find their way back to a healthy life and a pro social lifestyle THATS what you are fighting. Sitting there reading articles on hate.com and alt right hate sites you have NO IDEA of the boots on the ground reality and shouldn’t be speaking on it. It is inappropriate and wouldn’t be permitted in academia. I work there every day and with my degrees in neuropsych, Psycholinguistics and D.Psy in behavioural psychology PLUS a decade of real life experiences. I’ve brought 1,000 or more people back to life how about you? I wash peoples stumps and treat them with moisturizer, I lance wounds but more often I do CPR and O2- ON THE STREET when doing outreach. Never one death or serious overdose in a safe supply clinic- NOT ONE. I also work at a safe consumption site where the overdoses are >1ce a day. And in the inner city where dead bodies of those WHO HID DUE EXACTLY TO THE SHAME PEOPLE LIKE YOU THOUGHTLESSLY CAST ON THEM are found daily. Get it yet? It’s YOUR OPINION THAT KILLS THE MOST PEOPLE. Delete this and I’ll just come at you harder. I won’t say I’m a hacker or part of a large group and would do anything to your systems (work and home and phone) since just because I program 9 languages fluently and worked for CSEC doesn’t mean I’d have that ability… (Of course I can. We are 8 generations past “finfisher” and I designed exploits ffs- please just allow comments) I don’t want any negativity but will protect the vulnerable like a wolverines protecting her cubs Anyways. All I ask is DO THE RIGHT THING AND ALWAYS ALLOW COMMENTS AKA THE FACTUAL TRUTH BE GIVEN ALONG WITH YOUR LIFE TRAUMA BASED HATE MONGERING. Sorry for whatever happened to you but other peoples parents, children best friends and beloved SHOULDNT die because you have issues Do the right thing -3302

Look I have been close to being on the streets, friends on the street, people I know claw back from there. Never has there been one that said “Give me a safe supply and I will crawl back”. Biggest false truth, lie, mystery, fake news, narrative twist, or fake news you ever did see. From dealers in detox to dealers looking out for your health. I MUST say the problem is not your health but the problem is who makes money off it. #FSafeSupply

I know Jimmy. Haven't seen him in years. Hope hes ok

We need people like you in politics

My biggest fear for one of my sons. I’m so sorry for your families loss and heartbreak. We are thankful for those who continue to advocate ❤

Press Progress, Feb. 22, 2023: "According to a letter to SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences signed by over a dozen PhD and MSc students newly obtained by PressProgress, grad students allege a class taught by professor Julian Somers got off to the wrong start last month when he brought up his National Post story during the first class and started arguing with students. The National Post story, which claimed Somers had been “silenced” by BC’s government for criticizing safe supply policies, was retweeted by right-wing figures, including Pierre Poilievre and Jordan Peterson. The letter alleges Somers, who is an outspoken critic of safe supply and has ties to the recovery industry, “neglected his responsibility to facilitate a free exchange of ideas” and even engaged in “bullying” by “targeting a single student.” “We write this non-exhaustive letter after five weeks of class and coursework, through which Dr. Somers has displayed a pattern of behaviours and conduct which have created a space in which we feel unwelcome, unsafe, anxious and unable to learn,” the letter states. “From our perspective, his pedagogical approach has been unprofessional, unprepared and disorganized.”"

Thank you for your work. As we all know Oregon has reversed its policy and recognized its failure. I hope users find support from family and friends and community for the strength they need.

What a shame. ❤

We definitely need to do better. We judge to easily those who are homeless, have addictions to drugs and alcohol. Maybe if you could see the life they have lived We would be more willing to help them be the person they were meant to be. Just because YOU THINK YOU HAVE A GREAT LIFE don't forget it can change in a moment.

I've been an addict my whole life. Ive tried and tried to rejoin the world. What you are saying is not true. I mean yeah in a perfect world. Unfortunately it's not and what you are saying is ridiculous. I've lost all my friends. All dead from drugs. The last friend they gave drugs to. I wished they did that a long time ago because that was the only time he was at all together. I'm white knuckling it but I'm just so tired. You may be an addictions doctor but what you are saying is going to kill a lot of people. I can honestly say I hate doctors like you.

Mental health is impossible to get.

the whole system in BC is flawed. if you work and are injured have health concerns that involve pain they put you on Codeine from that point on every Dr will treat you like a drug addict a interm Dr talk to you 2-3 minutes and start telling you they are changing it all. they make you feel like a criminal yet if your on the street doing it you are a victim what needs our support. how about supporting the people who are buggered up building a better canada for a change

What do I do for an adult daughter who is suffering from mental health and addiction but will not admit what she is doing? I'm struggling as a mother who can't help in any way 😢 Right now, she is at the Jubilee psychological ward. But that won't last.

Eventually, evidence, honesty and compassion will win, Julian. Please, keep fighting for our suffering loved ones.

Keep up the hard work Dr. Somers!!!!

Why am I not shocked by this? Our government systems need a complete overhaul

This NDP government under David Eby is showing a shocking amount of disregard for facts whether in health care or housing matters.

How idiotic. Look around. Safe Supply isnt working. It's just shelving people into an endless cycle of dependency

I have so much respect for you, and your plan for the solution. I agree with you on everything you said. That is exactly what is needed. 💥🙏

Likely interfered where they wanted to push the funding. Their friends

i came here ready to be so angry. 😅 i needed this today thank you for your work!

So one group received proper Housing First (ie. consumer choice) and the other didn't (ie. assigned to a building) and they had differential outcomes. How is possible to then come to your conclusion if one had fidelity and one did not? Surely to make a proper assessment on scattered site versus congregate the residents would have to have chosen congregate or chosen scattered site?

independent subsidized market housing worked for me but im not addicted or mentally ill i worked with the at home/chez soi caseworkers to make things work what that program did was working for alot of people shame their funding ran out and the government did not use the research to properly triage people into tailored supports that would make a difference in peoples lives instead of warehousing them all in pooly run SRO housing that is resulting in making things worse as most homeless do not feel safe in SROs i really hope that this can be changed with the work you are doing Julian thank you for doing this important work ! 🙂

independent subsidized market housing worked for me but im not addicted or mentally ill i worked with the at home/chez soi caseworkers to make things work what that program did was working for alot of people shame their funding ran out and the government did not use the research