From the comments: ‘Finally a common sense approach’: Readers respond to Vancouver’s plan to offer opioid pills to drug users

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Prayer and more pills!? Talk about wishful thinking! You can't fix stupid...whether it's in users or city politicians. Remember when food banks were few and far between? Time to go hard against suppliers, be they careless doctors or purposeful criminals (or both).

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