Lynch Mob Rising 1.1 - The Vancouver Sun gives voice to Adam Pankratz's Question - "Maybe B.C.'s drug addicts should have to face shame and stigma"

[Landrew]

Here in Vancouver it is stigmatized if you are poor / esp homeless - People assume you would be a functioning member of society if you just avoid meth / fent whatever - then tend to gaslight you as punishment. Or in the case of our Calgary friend throw a wall of nonsense that is supposed to insult you, lol.

Someone with a good career who develops an addiction will face stigma, but way way less. - unless they lose it all before they get going again.

Nobody is glorifying hard drugs [outside hip hop that isnt really taken seriously,] this stigma backlash is against harm reduction measures and decriminalization

OP you live in Van, you see any fucking turbans on DTES? Any Chinese? Why are these two groups, who make up a huge percent of lower mainland population under represented when you see addicts? You think it might have something to do with them not wanting to embarrass their families with the stigma of being an addict?

The DTES is full of Chinese people..

A 2019 study found in the Fraser Health region, which includes Surrey — about 35 kilometres southeast of Vancouver — those dying of toxic drugs were disproportionately young, male and South Asian. The authors used a name-based algorithm to identify who was South Asian. The B.C. Coroners Service does not track ethnicity in overdose death

But Baljit Kaur Lally, Metro Vancouver director for Khalsa Aid Canada, believes better data would not only be helpful, it could spark a badly needed wake-up call in the South Asian community where there is a great amount of stigma around drug use.

"It's almost like you need to do a shock-and-awe right now," she said. "[Drug use] is so prevalent. I was on the Downtown Eastside a few weeks ago when the weather was super bad and I saw a lot of young South Asian men."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gurdwara-international-student-overdoses-1.6718307