Adam Zivo: ‘Safer Supply’ Is the OxyContin Crisis All Over Again

Adam Zivo: ‘Safer Supply’ Is the OxyContin Crisis All Over Again
The prescription medicine OxyContin is displayed at a drugstore in Brookline, MA, in a file photo. Darren McCollester/Getty Images
Adam Zivo
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Canadian harm reduction activists believe that “safer supply” can reduce overdoses and deaths by providing addicts with easy access to “safe” pharmaceutical opioids—but we already tried this experiment 20 years ago. It was called the OxyContin crisis and it had nightmarish results. So why are we making the same mistakes all over again?

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