Letters, March 19: 'Opioid replacement therapy' is an oxymoron, reader says

Re: B.C. approach to opioid crisis means well, but is misguided.
Letter writer Katherine Hammond is right — and not so right. It is true that one rarely reads that drug treatment and cure are goals in our current public policy. And it is helpful and appropriate to point to other jurisdictions where addiction treatment is mandatory and part of the social welfare system.
But this failing local policy is guided entirely by power, ego and control. Some day someone might report that the provinc