UBC law professor; author "Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial" (coming Oct. 2023) "Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis" (2022)
Jun 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Unregulated drug deaths began skyrocketing while @PierrePoilievre was in PM Harper's Cabinet
Why? Shift to illicit fentanyl spurred by the "crack down" on pharmaceuticals (e.g. Oxycontin) and "war on drugs" disruptions/seizures
Since then, the genie has been out of the bottle
BC declared the unregulated drug crisis on April 6, 2016. Here's the data that shows the surge of deaths from 2009-2015.