Back in 2005, it was a dark time for drug policy in Canada. A Conservative government under Stephen Harper was openly hostile towards harm reduction efforts and fought the provision of life-saving services at Insite, North America\u2019s first supervised consumption site, all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. They would eventually lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2015, the federal Liberals under Justin Trudeau brought a wave of optimism\u2014\u201csunny ways,\u201d they called it. But since then, nearly 13,000 people in Canada have died from accidental drug poisoning and overdose, and the body count has cast a pall over this government\u2019s first term in office during what is undoubtedly one of the worse human rights disasters of our time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n