Daphne Bramham: As the opioid crisis grinds on, we need national consensus on drug policy

The seemingly unending opioid overdose crisis with its litany of deaths and near-deaths has not only sapped the energy if first responders, it’s made something that would have been unthinkable almost normal.
More Canadians now die from drug overdoses than from car accidents. For the first time in decades, average life expectancy has dropped because of the more than 9,000 fatal overdoses across the country.
We need to solve this.
Even if the death toll isn’t enough to convince you, th