Daphne Bramham: Time to move beyond harm reduction to focus on addictions recovery

With every new drug crisis in the past three decades, the B.C. government’s response has been harm reduction — needle exchanges, safe injection sites, opioid replacement therapies, prescription medical-grade heroin and naloxone.
Missing have been corresponding increases in addictions treatment and recovery, despite promises made 17 years ago in Vancouver’s much-lauded four pillars plan.
Lives have been saved and infection rates for hepatitis C and HIV have decreased. But there&