Harm reduction workers facing burnout amid dual crises: ‘Too emotionally fraught’
“It’s important to recognize that some emotions that we have as humans in response to seeing other humans suffer, and the loss and grief that comes about it, that’s a normal reaction,” said Kolla.Over the past several years, the overdose crisis has continued to worsen in Canada as toxic drug supply has increasingly made its way through the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic made it harder for people who use drugs to access safe supplies and worsened feelings of isolation, stress and anxiety.
During the first two years of the pandemic, the country saw a 91 per cent increase in these types of deaths, compared to the two years prior, federal data shows. In Ontario alone between Feb. and Dec. of 2020, there was a 79 per cent increase in monthly opioid-related deaths, according to the“COVID could have been an opportunity for our society to finally appreciate harm reduction because for a long time, harm reduction has been kind of icky to people,” Daniel Bear, professor at Humber College’s faculty of Social and Community Services, told Global News.“And the government response in drugs policy is wholly inadequate. Full stop.
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