Drug treatment is bloody hard to make stick — and impossible with cadavers
Astonishingly, Poilievre claims those cities are also suffering from the “safer supply” problem. “This has been tried not just in Vancouver, but in places like Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco,” Poilievre averred, “and always with the same results: major increases in overdoses and a massive increase in crime.”Article content
That’s just empirically incorrect. “As such programs grow in Canada, nothing of the sort exists in the United States, where 108,000 people died from overdoses in 2021, largely driven by fentanyl,” Stat News“I can assuredly say that no reputable clinicians on the West Coast of the U.S. are using any opioids other than methadone or buprenorphine to treat OUD because it is not currently legal,” Dr.
Methadone and buprenorphine are drugs that help addicts quit by reducing cravings and withdrawal symptoms; they don’t help those who aren’t ready to quit get high safely. At this point in our evolving understanding of addiction, it’s simply a failure of curiosity not to understand the difference — and not to understand how difficult it is to get addicts into therapy, and to make it stick. It’s unforgivably simplistic to say “let’s focus on treatment over safe supply.
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