Banishment doesn’t promote healing’: You can’t fight addiction with punishment – CBC

There is rarely a difference between drug dealer and drug user

Feb 04, 2020

First Nations leadership, needing to do something in the face of a crisis, have sometimes turned to banishment of those selling drugs in our communities.

The problem with banishing a drug dealer, or locking them up, is that as soon as they are removed from the community, someone takes their place.

We do not have a drug dealer problem. We have a substance use problem.

‘There is rarely a difference between drug dealer and drug user’

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