Mayor Sam wants to substitute drugs on downtown eastside
Vancouver's Mayor launched his Chronic Addiction Substitution Treatment Project today that proposes to manage addicts by replacing illegal drugs with prescribed substitutes.
Speaking on The World Today with Jon McComb on CKNW, Sam Sullivan says the idea behind the project is to treat addiction to drugs like you would other addictions like eating, "A Doctor really doesn't say just stop eating, they say why don't you try a sugar substitute which is exactly the kind of thing we're saying, you know aspertame or something like that. That's why we have things for smoking like the patch or gum, and this is really what we're trying to do, is we're trying to get people out of paying money to the drug criminals who are causing so much trouble in our City and we've heard about these shootings in the past few days, that's all about drug profits."
The Project still needs an exemption under the Canada Health Act.
Sullivan is hopeful it will be up and running by next fall.
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