Most fatal drug overdoses occur in private residences – typically far removed from interference by law enforcement
deaths last year. These statistics are well-known; the solutions for this unfathomable public health emergency, not so much.: Adults carrying up to 2.5 grams of most illicit drugs for personal use will no longer be arrested or have the substance seized by police. For the federal Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, the measure represents “bold actions and significant policy change,” reduces drug users’ “stigma and harm” and provides “another tool to end the overdose crisis.
Despite the charitable prospects of police to “offer information on available health and social supports and … help with referrals,” this measure will do little tangible to reduce drug users’ use of and exposure to the highly potent and toxic drugs that have been killing them.Other questions arise besides those concerning impact. Other provinces, such as Alberta and Ontario, also have excessively high opioid overdose rates.
For example, while the large majority of deaths still occur from illicit fentanyl or similarly toxic, synthetic opioids, about half by now also involve psychostimulant drugs and a substantial proportion are further contaminated with some form of benzodiazepine constituent.
But the present drug supply’s exceptionally potent and toxic qualities have turned this also into a historical truth. Current intervention realities mean that a disproportionate number of drug inhalers find themselves at much elevated risk of dying, since only a minority of the supervised-consumption sites operating in B.C. accommodate their method of consumption.
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