My introduction to the opioid crisis began at a distance.
I watched the overdose death toll rise in British Columbia, which seemed to be the epicentre of the trouble, and then in other provinces.
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Dr. Thomas Kerr from the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) put it starkly in an interview with the Globe and Mail earlier this year: “To continue to accept the rate of death that’s occurring now is, I think, immoral, and people will look back on us and judge us harshly for our inaction.”
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