Street drugs in Canada are becoming more toxic — and tools to treat them less effective. Why?
The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use issued its own alert last July identifying the emerging presence of xylazine in a small number of opioid samples tested in B.C., Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.
“It’s not only the individual substances we’re seeing, but the fact that nobody really knows what they’re getting.” Governments in Canada have adopted an approach to regulate alcohol and cannabis, even though these are drugs that can cause harm and addiction, she noted. “The alternative, if you’re saying you don’t want to provide people with a safe option for these substances, is to say we’re OK with letting people die, we’re OK with saying, ‘You’ve got to just take what you can get and hope for the best.’Doris Payer, an addiction neuroscience expert and knowledge broker for the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, says it’s not just habitual drug users and so-called addicts who are at risk from these substances.
He called on governments to treat the toxicity in the unregulated market like the crisis it has become.
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