INSANITY IS DEFINED AS ........

 EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS 

FROM THE SAME ACTION

Insanity in Action: Same Inputs, Same Results

In Nanaimo, over the past two years, we’ve thrown resources at the drug crisis like never before.

• We added 30 new Community Safety Officers. 
• We support safe injection sites. 
• All first responders now carry naloxone kits and some are outfitted with defibrillators. 
• Added 40 more firefighters (not to deal with fires)

 And yet… the death toll keeps rising.

Last year alone—more than 90 overdose deaths in our city. Let that sink in.

We’re not turning the tide. We’re not solving the crisis.

We’re spinning our wheels in a deepening rut—doing the same thing, over and over again, expecting different results.

That’s not policy. That’s insanity.

And no one wants to admit it.

Because to do so would mean admitting that our model—rooted in harm reduction alone—is not just insufficient, it's failing.

At what point do we stop "managing" this crisis and start confronting it at its root?

The question is no longer: Are we doing enough?

 It’s: Are we doing the right things at all?