Eby's reversal on decriminalization signals a new stage in BC's toxic drug crisis

The broad consensus on harm reduction has hit a wall with a public demand for more far-reaching answers to addiction, treatment, and effective enforcement

Premier David Eby’s dramatic appeal to Ottawa to amend BC’s decriminalization program to ban drug use in public spaces marks a turning point in the province’s eight-year-old battle with the fentanyl-driven overdose crisis.

BC’s generation-long focus on harm reduction has hit a wall as fentanyl produces a wave of open drug use, hundreds of homeless, ill …