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Overdose : heartbreak and hope in Canada's opioid crisis / Benjamin Perrin.

by Perrin, Benjamin.

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362.230971 P458o

Opioid abuse -- Canada.

Fentanyl -- Canada.

Opioids -- Overdose.

Fentanyl -- Overdose -- Canada.

9780735237865 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Heartbreak and hope in Canada's opioid crisis

Canada's opioid crisis

285 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

What is the Opioid Crisis? -- Why is Fentanyl Killing so Many People? -- Why do People Start Using? Why Can't They Stop? -- Has Criminalizing Drugs Failed? -- Why are Dealers Killing their Customers? -- Can We Stop Fentanyl at its Source? -- Who's Been Hardest Hit? -- Can we Prosecute our way Out? -- What is Naloxone and is it the Solution? -- Don't Supervised Injection Sites Enable Drug Use? -- Is Providing "Safe Drugs" Giving up on People? -- How Can we Help People Stop Using? -- Won't Decriminalization Make Things Worse? -- How Can we Solve this Crisis?

"An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid health crisis--the only book of its kind in Canada. North America is in the middle of a health crisis. The word 'Fentanyl' only recently entered common usage, and yet it has become a looming presence in news reports and conversations across Canada. It is an opioid more powerful and pervasive--and deadly--than any previous street drug. Often those suffering are marginalized people. Consider that in 2003, the SARS epidemic killed 44 people in Canada and launched a massive mobilization of public funds and resources to contain the outbreak. Over 100 times that number have been killed between 2016 and 2017 during the opioid crisis in Canada. Yet, the response has been far from proportionate. In fact, our policies are making things worse. The victims are many, and as we learn here, not only who we might expect. They are our neighbours: professionals, students, parents, and even health care workers. Despite the thousands of deaths, these victims remain largely invisible. But not anymore. Benjamin Perrin, a law and policy expert in Vancouver, BC--ground zero for the crisis--shines a light in this darkest of corners. What he finds challenges many assumptions about the people who use opioids, and the factors fuelling the crisis. Why do people use Fentanyl, where does it come from, and why can't we stop it? These questions, and many others being asked by all Canadians, are answered here in this urgent and humane look at the worst health crisis in recent history."--From publisher.

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