Cory Morgan: AB’s Treatment Approach to Addiction Works and BC’s Harm Reduction Doesn’t, the Numbers Show

A tent city is seen outside the newly opened Fraser Health supervised drug consumption site in Surrey, B.C., on June 6, 2017. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Commentary

While we will finally be looking at the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror in 2023, we still have the consequences of the pandemic and government responses to it to deal with. North America had already been struggling to deal with the growth in opioid addiction prior to 2021. The increase in addiction rates and overdoses exploded during the pandemic.