Alberta harm reduction advocate, drug user challenges government focus on abstinence - Global News

There are opioid agonist treatment programs in Alberta where powerful opioid medications, like methadone and suboxone, are prescribed to treat substance use disorder.

It was in a hospital that a Calgary woman says she recalls feeling happy for the very first time as an opioid raced through her body. “When they gave me that IV of hydromorphone, all of the horrible… [+4852 chars]

full article...