Spending on drug treatment programs dwarfed by government-funded free opioids being swapped for Fentanyl

A California-Funded Homeless Shelter Gave Us Meth Pipes

As governor of California, Gavin Newsom has repeatedly supported “harm reduction” policies, which enable drug use in the name of making it “safer.” He created the state’s Harm Reduction Initiative, which funded “syringe services programs” for “people who inject and smoke fentanyl and/or methamphetamines.” His Department of Public Health has endorsed distributing syringes, glass pipes,...

Spending on drug treatment programs dwarfed by government-funded free opioids being swapped for Fentanyl

At a time when the Ford Government has replaced safe injection sites with abstinence-based Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) hubs, it is, nonetheless, simultaneously funding a free-for-all drug distribution system that sees free, high-potency opioids swapped out for illegal drugs like fentanyl. The phenomenon is an unintended consequence of the “safe supply” movement that nobody wants to acknowledge.  The issue is termed “opio…