Why fentanyl is producing an overdose crisis unlike anything we've ever seen before

Jonathan Caulkins, former advisor to Barack Obama and author of a confidential report to the BC government, says the fentanyl crisis will require a dramatic changes in our response

BC’s toxic drug overdose crisis, now taking the lives of five or six British Columbians a day, began with this simple calculation, according to U.S. drug policy expert Jonathan Caulkins: “Fentanyl cuts heroin dealers’ raw materials costs by more than 99 percent.”

It was a supply side, profit-seeking strategy by drug dealers that drove the production and …