Cory Morgan: It’s Time to Admit That the Social Experiment of Addiction Enablement Has Failed

People walk past a tent city outside the Fraser Health supervised consumption site in Surrey, B.C., on June 6, 2017. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Commentary

One of the most destructive misconceptions of our time was that addiction is a condition that can be maintained with proper management. We were told that fatal overdoses were caused by impure drug supplies rather than the drug itself. It was asserted that homelessness caused addiction rather than the other way around.