Liam Hunt

1 month ago | thebureau.news | Liam Hunt |Sam Cooper

By Liam HuntDr. Michael Lester, a Toronto-based addiction physician with 30 years of experience, says Canada’s “safer supply” programs are “inherently dangerous” and causing “dystopian” community harms due to widespread fraud. These programs claim to reduce overdoses and deaths by distributing free addictive drugs—typically 8-milligram tablets of hydromorphone, an opioid as potent as heroin—to dissuade addicts from consuming riskier street substances.

Nov 20, 2024 | todayville.com | Liam Hunt

By Canada’s safer supply programs are “selling people down the river,” says a leading medical expert in British Columbia. Dr. Julian Somers, director of the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction at Simon Fraser University, says that despite the thin evidence in support of these experimental programs, the BC government has aggressively expanded them—and retaliated against dissenting researchers.

Nov 20, 2024 | thebureau.news | Liam Hunt |Sam Cooper

VANCOUVER — Canada’s safer supply programs are “selling people down the river,” says a leading medical expert in British Columbia. Dr. Julian Somers, director of the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction at Simon Fraser University, says that despite the thin evidence in support of these experimental programs, the BC government has aggressively expanded them—and retaliated against dissenting researchers.

Aug 14, 2024 | torontosun.com | Liam Hunt

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1 Trending Trending Trending Trending The government has given drug users everything that they want, but at a nightmarish cost  •   •  You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentIn a quiet corner of a bustling Toronto methadone clinic, Dr. Robert Cooper shared a sobering reflection on the state of Canada’s opioid crisis, which he believes is being fuelled by reckless “safer supply” programs.

Jul 24, 2024 | quillette.com | Josh Allan |Allan Stratton |Peter Herman |Liam Hunt

You can often infer more about the health of a society from the way it reacts to events than from the events themselves. When US presidential candidate Donald Trump was shot in the ear last Saturday while giving a speech at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania—a shot that would almost certainly have killed him had he not turned his head at the last second—the responses from most mainstream public figures were refreshingly civil.