Opioids are killing Canadians in the thousands, ‘we need to care more’

As one member of the audience said, we need to 'stop treating addiction like a moral failing,' and treat it like a serious medical condition. It’s time to care more.

Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, medical director of Ottawa Inner City Health, told the caucus that less than one kilometre from Parliament Hill opioids are easily available on the street. 'I now see 150 heroin addicts and five overdoses every day,' he said.Image courtesy of Air Force Medicine

Opinion

BY SENATOR JANE CORDY AND SENATOR RAYMONDE GAGNé

April 15, 2019

“I wasn’t born to be a drug addict,” said a brave member of the audience at our recent open caucus meeting in the Senate on the opioid crisis in Canada. He told us of his struggle with drug addiction over two decades. His closing words ...

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