In a quiet corner of a bustling Toronto methadone clinic, Dr. Robert Cooper shared a sobering reflection on the state of Canada’s opioid crisis, which he believes is being fuelled by reckless “safer supply” programs.
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Ontario judge fumes over apologies from violent addicts: ‘Same old song and dance’
A Brantford man who robbed two pharmacies with a handgun faced the wrath of an Ontario Court judge when he appeared in court recently.
When Kevin Couture, 43, apologized for traumatizing pharmacy workers during the October 2022 robberies, Justice Gethin Edward vented his frustration with the “woe is me” tale.
Adam Zivo: ‘Almost as good as giving (drug users) cash’ — B.C. government buries report on safer supply opioids
Last autumn, B.C.’s top doctor, Bonnie Henry, commissioned a confidential report from American drug policy expert Jonathan Caulkins examining the “economics” of safer supply diversion. The document, which was completed in March, was apparently so secret that even Premier David Eby was unaware of it — when news of its existence leaked in April, he told reporters that he was blindsided.
What is isotonitazene? A drug more powerful than fentanyl is circulating in Montreal
Isotonitazene, a synthetic opioid, is circulating in Montreal and its effects are devastating.
Most recently, a 15-year-old boy died on Dec. 21 after ingesting the drug, which is considered more potent than fentanyl.
Mathis Boivin apparently thought he was taking oxycontin.
Cheezus. This never ends.
Adam Zivo: Ontario police blame safer supply for skyrocketing seizures of hydromorphone
The National Post has received data from two more Ontario police departments confirming that seizures of hydromorphone, an opioid as potent as heroin, have skyrocketed by 1,000 per cent or more since “safer supply” programs became widely available in 2020.
Video shows ‘zombie’ drug addicts sheltering in Edmonton bus station
Terrifying video has emerged of drug addicts at a bus station waiting room just hours before children made their way to school.
The disturbing footage, reminiscent of the television show The Walking Dead, was shot at Clareview bus station in Edmonton, Canada, a city of one million people, with city officials seemingly powerless to do anything about it.
The 15-second viral clip online sees seven addicts behaving more like zombies as a couple are seen slowly moving around the room in a stupor.
Video shows addicts at Clareview bus station in Edmonton Alberta. pic.twitter.com/LYsdWuqPDa
— CanadaRelatedTV (@CanadaRelatedTV) July 27, 2024
City Hall asked Feds to let them turn Toronto into giant open air drug den
Federal documents reveal what happened behind the scenes with Toronto’s request to decriminalize drugs
… Toronto updated its application, answered the questions, provided a letter of support from the police and detailed plans on risk mitigation, communications and monitoring and evaluation for the program.
It wasn’t enough to pass muster with Health Canada and the federal agency went back to the city.
“Given the very broad request by TPH (i.e. the inclusion of all youth, all substances in the [Controlled Drugs and Substances Act] and no maximum possession amount), Health Canada continues its assessment of the request and levers available to them in this context,” the department wrote in a May 12, 2023 letter.
WTF?
Seattle’s Policies Are Killing Drug Addicts
True compassion recognizes that a person stuck in addiction needs help — help that broken souls often want but can’t choose.
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the rights of cities to enforce common sense laws which prohibit the homeless from sleeping in public spaces, such as parks or sidewalks where children play or families walk. It’s almost absurd that the Court was forced to expend its limited resources adjudicating a controversy over whether such laws should be constitutional.
‘Drug dens’: Poilievre calls out Trudeau’s misleadingly named ‘safe’ injection sites
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has condemned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and the mainstream media for concealing the failure of federally-subsidized “safe” injection sites for hard drug use.
Adam Zivo: B.C. dodges a bullet by rejecting ‘safe supply’ of all hard drugs
Thank God the B.C. government has rejected the latest reckless proposals from safer-supply advocate Dr. Bonnie Henry.
In a new report released Thursday, Henry, the Provincial Health Officer, recommended that B.C. legalize drugs through a “non-medical” model of “safer supply” wherein substances like fentanyl, crystal meth and cocaine could be obtained without prescription. The province’s NDP government immediately dismissed the idea — which was praiseworthy, because Henry’s report was unscientific and irresponsible.
Conservatives would scale back, defund supervised drug consumption sites: Poilievre
Supervised consumption sites are just “drug dens” that a future Conservative government would not fund and seek to close, Pierre Poilievre said Friday.
During a visit to a park near such a site in Montreal, Poilievre said he would shutter all locations near schools, playgrounds and “anywhere else that they endanger the public.”
“Radical bureaucrats don’t have the right to open these drug dens anywhere they want,” he said.
Pierre Poilievre DESTROYS another reporterpic.twitter.com/KWFh43De2t
— The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) July 12, 2024
How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl capital of the world
The city is gripped in an opioid crisis worse than America’s. Locals say overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe
“Hailey, are you okay? You have to communicate with me,” says Larry.
“Yes, I feel fine,” she replies.
“Okay, hold still.”
Eyes wide and hands trembling, Larry, 32, flicks the syringe’s needle before crouching over his friend and injecting a mixture of fentanyl and benzodiazepines into a prominent vein in her neck.
Car theft and drugs just two of the categories putting Canada on the world stage.
Canada Records More Than 8,000 Opioid-Related Deaths in 2023
-related deaths continue to rise in Canada, averaging approximately 22 lives lost each day in 2023, an ongoing trend since the pandemic, according to government data.
There were 8,049 deaths due to opioid poisoning in the country last year, a 7 percent increase over 2022, according to a newly released report from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Adam Zivo: Hydromorphone pills seized in London skyrockets 3,000% after safer supply expansion
The National Post has learned that police leaders in London, Ont. have known for months that staggering amounts of “safer supply” opioids are being diverted to the black market. Yet the London Police Service (LPS) failed to share this information with the public despite a raucous national debate about whether, or how much, such diversion is occurring.
California Legalized Drugs. Cartels Took It Over.
Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave Desert. Four of the men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County.
Violence like this was supposed to disappear after legalization. Legalization advocates argued that making the drug trade legal would end the grip of the cartels. Instead, the legal market has failed, and the cartels are taking over sizable parts of California and the rest of the country.