Now we’re ‘racist’ if we don’t give people free heroin: Full Comment podcast

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Published Sep 03, 2024  •  1 minute read

Safe supplyA man prepares to inject himself with drugs on a sidewalk adjacent to a march calling for the safe supply of street drugs, in Vancouver in 2020. Photo by Jason Payne/PNG

Fast enough to make your head spin, Canada’s “harm reduction” approach to helping drug addicts went from a few safe injection sites to giving away powerful opioid drugs to addicts. As Adam Zivo, journalist and director of the Canadian Centre for Responsible Drug Policy, discusses with Brian Lilley, radical public health officials now insist that any addiction treatment other than giving addicts more free drugs is racist and colonialist. And despite overdose deaths rising and more addicts being created by the diversion of so-called safe supply, Zivo says these drug-policy extremists won’t stop until they make all dangerous street narcotics legal — and as easy as possible for anyone to get. (Recorded July 25, 2024.)

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