Editorial: Treatment and recovery must be priority in dealing with addiction

It has been nearly two decades since the four-pillars drug strategy — prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement — was embraced by Vancouver city council and the Vancouver police. Over that time, the drug problem in Vancouver, and throughout B.C., has grown exponentially from merely bad to catastrophic.
Certainly, the past few years have been the worst, with the proliferation of fentanyl largely responsible for the surge in fatalities. The number of overdose deaths in B.C.