Have harm reduction advocates learned from their recent defeats?

Nearly ten years after BC's opioid emergency declaration, prospects for an effective response have never seemed bleaker. A US expert argues that feuding factions in drug policy wars have to make peace

A San Francisco billboard at the height of that city’s decriminalization efforts: fentanyl was portrayed as a sort of party drug in an effort to reduce stigma. Broad public support for harm reduction turned into widespread opposition.

With just ten months to go before the tenth anniversary of the declaration the declaration of BC’s toxic drug overdose em…