Canada - Inexpensive crystal meth eclipsing opioids on the Prairies

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'It's an epidemic:' Inexpensive crystal meth eclipsing opioids on the Prairies
CBC
October 28th, 2018

Police are dealing with a prairie fire of methamphetamine use which is rapidly overtaking fentanyl as the drug of choice for many.

Opioid use continues to be a public-health crisis with just under 4,000 deaths across Canada in 2017 and over 3,000 in 2016.

But officers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta say they're worried about crystal meth as a narcotic of choice.

"The meth problem is happening across the Prairies. They're seeing that opioid use is now being replaced with meth," said Lethbridge police Chief Rob Davis.

"What I'm hearing anecdotally is so many people were dying on the fake fentanyl that there's a perception out there that meth is safer -- still dangerous, but safer."

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[Jabberwocky]

A lot of heroin users who want to quit end up switching to meth thinking they will get off the opiods, then the meth and be clean.

Unfortunately addiction doesn't always work that way.