Drug addiction

BEPPLE – New bylaw will push more drug use into hidden, unsafe places

September 3, 2023 // 22 Comments

Rather than creating bylaws targeting open drug use, it’s time to find ways to expand harm reduction for smoking and inhalation which is where the majority of deaths are [Continue]

PETERS – Observations on drug use from fire chief, top cop are illuminating but not gospel

July 22, 2023 // 3 Comments

IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE SERIOUSLY the comments from our fire chief and our police superintendent this week about drug use. It’s also important we add some context to [Continue]

LETTER – Sorry, but Kamloops is not a clean city

July 20, 2023 // 1 Comment

Re: EDITORIAL – Stop insulting Kamloops and be grateful for a great city I’m sorry to say but the city is not clean. Everywhere you go you see that humans have [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The ‘Alberta Model’ for drug treatment is yet to be built

July 20, 2023 // 3 Comments

ALBERTA PREMIER Danielle Smith has been quoting statistics that show that the “Alberta Model” works in reducing drug-related deaths. But how can the model work when [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Who owns the issue of public safety in Kamloops?

June 29, 2023 // 3 Comments

I WENT TO A FORUM at TRU last Wednesday (June 21) expecting to hear a discussion on public safety in Kamloops. Instead, I was faced with a denunciation of federal and B.C. [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – We need more forums like the one held last week

June 26, 2023 // 2 Comments

By TODD MASON Guess Columnist SOMETHING BIG HAPPENED at last week’s community forum on drug supply and recovery. Something human and touching. It was the first time in my [Continue]