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LILLEY: Safer supply driven by activist doctors, questionable studies (TORONTO SUN)


If you started a program with the goal of stopping bad outcomes and instead those bad outcomes increased, would you keep going or pause and reassess? 

 

It’s not an idle question, we have public policy in this country on drugs and addictions being formed based on failing programs treated like they are successes.

 

For the uninitiated, “safer-supply” programs are ones where addicts are given a pharmaceutical-grade opioid in place of a street drug that may be toxic. On the face of it, this could sound like a good idea. In practice, the effects have been catastrophic ...


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