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

Commentary 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? Before the late 1990s, opioid abuse had not been a significant issue in North America for decades. As opioid prescribing was generally restricted to managing pain for terminally ill cancer patients, opportunities for prescription opioids to trickle into the black market and fuel new addictions were limited....