Canada - Prescription drugs abound on Vancouver streets

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Prescription drugs abound on Vancouver streets
Susan Lazaruk
The Province
February 26th, 2014

Finding pharmaceuticals for sale is just as easy as walking down to the open-air drug markets on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, according to one addict.

“Everything from Extra Strength Tylenol to methadone, every Oxy you can find, every benzo, like Valium, Rivotril, Dilaudid, Dexedrine,” said Laura Shaver, who’s on a methadone maintenance program for heroin addiction.

“If I wanted to buy drugs, I would go down to the Carnegie corner or to the 100-block of (East) Hastings or the 300-block of Hastings and say, ‘Who’s got Oxys?’” she said.

She quickly rattled off the going rates — $5 for 4 mg of Delaudid, $10 for 8 mg of Delaudid, $6 for 10 mg of OxyContin, $20 for 80 mg of OxyContin.

Shaver, who’s also president of the B.C. Association of People on Methadone, said it used to be easier to score illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine and crystal meth on the streets, but legal prescription drugs over the past year have become just as plentiful.
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Dickinson's claim that "mere possession is not enough to prosecute" in the case of prescription drugs is not generally true. This only applies to Schedule IV drugs, such as benzodiazepines and anabolic steroids. Simple possession of opioids (such as methadone, OxyContin, and Dilaudid) is a criminal offence as these are Schedule I drugs. I'm not surprised that Dickinson got this wrong - police often have a very weak grasp of Canada's drug laws.

I called out this woman, Laura Shaver. The president of the B.C. Association of People on Methadone has no business blabbing to the media and bringing heat on to her fellow drug users.
 
Wait, legal drugs are now available on the streets?? Anarchy!!! Whats next, people buying used cars right out of peoples driveways? With no bills of sale or financing?? Wont someone think of the children?? Those poor Canadian children..
 
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