Advocates says tainted-drug study proves need for gov't intervention

Advocates for people who use drugs say new research showing an overwhelmingly tainted street-drug supply proves the dire need for government to crush the deadly illicit market by distributing safer substances.
Preliminary results from a pilot study by the B.C. Centre on Substance Use released Thursday show that people who brought street drugs into two supervised-consumption sites for testing had often been deceived about their purchases. Using a spectrometer and fentanyl test strips, r