StarEditorial: Treating — and preventing — opioid addiction means ensuring the availability and accessibility of affordable housing, food and supportive communities along with physical and mental health care.
Pandemics are remembered, not just for the problems they create, but for the ones they reveal. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted systemic failures in long-term care, for example, and now it's revealing our mishandling of problematic drug use.that during the first two years of the pandemic, opioid-related deaths increased 91 per cent compared to the two years years before.
To begin with, fentanyl began making its way into the illicit drug supply about a decade ago, and now, in 2022, it’s involved in 85 per cent of opioid toxicity deaths. And of all such deaths, 81 per cent involved exclusively non-pharmaceutical opioids. As for safe supply, Ottawa has created and funded a number of pilot projects, but their strict protocols and limited enrolment result in many people still relying on the illicit drug trade. And Ottawa’s efforts here too hardly meet the task force’s recommendation for a national scaling-up of safe supply.“we want to be able to get to a place where there is a pharmaceutical-grade, regulated supply of drugs,” so perhaps Ottawa is finally ready to act on the task force recommendations.
Unfortunately, people often conceive of addiction as just like any other illness or injury. If that were true, then users could just attend rehab for a week or a month or a year, and they’d be healed. But this isn’t about treating a broken hip; it’s about treating a broken spirit.detailed, problematic opioid use is higher among those whose lives are stressful and those who suffer from poor mental or physical health, especially if their mental health needs are unmet.
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