Daphne Bramham: Is legalization a desperate measure or a solution to the opioid overdose crisis?

It’s too early to say whether the 31-per-cent decrease in B.C.’s number of overdose deaths in January due to fentanyl in illicit drugs means that there may be an end in sight to the public health emergency.
We can only hope that, finally, policymakers will be able to shift from crisis mode to consideration of a longer-term response to Canada’s addictions problems, avoiding the risks of desperate solutions.
There is no shortage of those. The B.C. Centre on Substance Use has publ