With its “safer supply” approach to addiction, Canada’s federal government is giving out large amounts of hydromorphone—a drug that’s too mild to satisfy many addicts, but powerful enough to attract the new drug-users getting ahold of it, says documentary filmmaker Aaron Gunn.
Each addict can receive dozens of pills daily, and many of them sell the hydromorphone to buy fentanyl, says Gunn, whose recently released film, “Canada Is Dying,” looks at the effects of “safer supply.” It’s often kids who are buying the hydromorphone, Gunn said.
“These drugs are being diverted back to high schools, back to college campuses, back to university campuses,” Gunn told The Epoch Times. “The federal government is literally flooding Canadian streets and the campuses of Canadian schools with cheap, powerful, dangerous, and addictive opioids.”…