Cory Morgan: ‘Safer Supply’ Drug Policy Is Now Shown Beyond a Doubt to Be a Failure

Commentary Good intentions don’t change the outcome of bad policies. Self-styled addiction experts surely had the best interests of addicts in mind as they promoted policies of permissive enablement to deal with the opioid addiction crisis. Unfortunately, supervised consumption sites often create crime-ridden districts, decriminalization of hard drugs increases the proliferation of hard drug use, and handing out “safer supplies” of drugs has created new addicts as the drugs are diverted and being resold by organized criminals. While policies of law enforcement on hard drug use have a limited impact on addiction and overdose rates, at least they weren’t making things worse. The same can’t be said for policies of enablement. Proponents of enablement have become almost religious-like as they refuse to acknowledge the failures of enablement policies and insist on continuing with them. Despite years of enablement policies, disorder on the streets has been increasing while deaths due to overdoses continue to rise....