David Byres

Feds could face legal showdown over addicts’ right to prescription heroin

Posted on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 - 3:26pm

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Ottawa could face a legal showdown with some of Vancouver’s hardest-core addicts as they’re cut off from government-supplied heroin doctors say is their only viable treatment option.

DTES heroin addicts concerned after federal decision

Posted on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 - 3:01pm

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There’s growing concern a group of addicts are about to lose the only treatment that works for them – a regular dose of the active ingredient in heroin.

The politics of the heroin addict

Posted on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 - 2:12pm

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If a society is judged by how its cares for its most vulnerable, we are basically faced with a test of what we are willing to try to help the most beleaguered. Consider the heroin addict.