A commentary by a pharmaceutical policy researcher who is the author of four books related to drug marketing, evidence-based medicine and disease-mongering. He lives in Victoria. This is the first of two commentaries on B.C.’s health policies.
I once believed Health Minister Adrian Dix was the most competent and capable health minister in Canada. He’d spent years honing his chops as the opposition health critic and is able to answer in-depth health policy questions with rigour and clarity. It is easy to understand the nasty backlash against current drug legislation and regulation given what is happening on the streets of almost every B.C. city. Clearly public pressure has forced the government to backtrack, but let’s be clear: this is not because the NDP suddenly discovered new evidence that their policies were failing. It is because the public is fed up.
Social disapproval can be effective to avoid detrimental health behaviours that can ruin so many young lives, including a young UVic student. B.C.’s uncontrolled experiment involving free opioids pushes bushels of dilaudid onto the streets and helps create seven or eight new dead B.C. overdose victims everyday.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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