Premier Danielle Smith and Tsuut\u0027ina officials sign MOU to fight drug addiction while rejecting the notion of providing a safer drug supply.
“There’s no such thing as a safe opioid dumped on the street.”Substance abuse has risen to dangerous levels: Chief Roy Whitney
“How can a solution of drug abuse be more and cheaper drugs handed out by government? That’s just helping addicts to die faster,” said Whitney.Whitney said the opioid crisis has taken substance-abuse problems in his community to a dramatically more dangerous level.Article content It also shows the opioid-related death rate was seven times greater among First Nations people than non-Indigenous Albertans.It is time to acknowledge that the current approach to the drug poisoning crisis isn’t working and it is failing the greatest in Indigenous communities,” NDP Indigenous Relations critic Brooks Arcand-Paul and Mental Health and Addictions critic Janet Eremenko said in a joint statement.
The Alberta government’s insistence on abstinence, said the University of Calgary public health sociologist, is rooted more in politics than research.Article content
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