Canada - The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents

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The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents
Travis Lupick
Vice
February 5th, 2018

On the ground floor of an old hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Paul Scibak recounted what it's like waking up with an addiction to heroin. It's a crippling shot of anxiety the second you open your eyes, he told VICE.

"You literally feel like you?re being ripped apart. Your skin's peeling, you bones are breaking, your muscles are cramping.... Waking up and not having your dose there, that's a painful experience."

For three decades, Scibak said that nearly every morning, he rushed to get dressed, raced out the door, and did whatever he had to for his first fix of the day. He committed crimes and went to jail more than once. There were always hassles with dealers.

"The average addict is using anywhere from $20 to $100 a day. That's baseline for their heroin addiction. And that's a lot of money to come up with," Scibak continued. "So you're breaking into cars, you're stealing from stores, you're mugging people, you're doing whatever it takes to get that cash. And so you're constantly under pressure from police."

Then fentanyl arrived and things got worse. Scibak's addiction became "a game of Russian roulette."
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It's pretty clear that, at this point, physicians in Canada have the go-ahead from the highest health authority in the country to prescribe hydromorphone off-label for the purpose of maintenance in opioid-dependent patients.
 
Im in american and have been saying they should do something like this for years!! Thank god someone is finally thinking outside the box
 
It would help a LOT of opioid addicts stabilize themselves, and lead a better life, as a result, if all they have to do is pop some money into a vending machine and have some hydromorphone pop out. That way, they wouldn't have to commit crimes to score, deal with dodgy as fuck dealers, and receive a known, pure product as a result.

This is the fucking future, the way things ought to be IMO.
 
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