Obama Administration expert warns Canada's 'safer supply' experiments are replicating lethal outcomes of OxyContin prescription crisis One of America’s leading drug-policy experts is sounding the alarm on Canada’s “safer supply” programs, alleging that advocates who back these programs are recycling practices used by Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, and warning that the continuation of these programs will reproduce the lethal OxyContin crisis. Safer supply “perpetuates addiction,” says Kevin Sabet, a former White House adviser who worked within the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Sabet has advised some of the world’s most powerful figures, including Pope Francis, on addiction. And his writing, which includes two well-regarded books, has been praised as “compassionate” and “meticulously factual.” He is also refreshingly nonpartisan, having been the only politically appointed drug-policy adviser in both a Democratic and Republican administration. ...
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