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Honourable Government of Canada, Government of BC and Ontario members:

We all want a compassionate, successful solution to Canada’s growing addiction crisis. After a costly 20-year experiment, medical experts and health researchers can confirm that more publicly funded harmful drugs, ironically termed “safe supply”, or “drug decriminalization”, are not the correct paths to recovery.

We see this failed experiment every day in our major cities, from Toronto to Vancouver, facing rising overdoses and deaths, more homelessness, first responder fatigue and community chaos with growing violence and crime.

Lobbied by activist groups who directly benefit, governments have spent billions of our tax dollars on reckless, dysfunctional programs for addictions and mental health, or warehousing the homeless with no treatment or success measurements and shoddy accounting practices, revealed through forensic audits.

British Columbians and Canadians are fed up, evidenced by recent polls.

We demand the provincial and federal governments focus on proven solutions contained in this 20-year RESEARCH the BC government tried to destroy. This research found the major goals of those struggling with addictions included:

• resuming paid work
• overcoming their addictions and;
• reconnecting with children or other family members.

Current “harm reduction” programs are just “helping people get high more”, say addicts themselves. “Alcohol is legally available to adults and is associated with more violence and crime than any other drug.” – Journal of Community Safety and Wellbeing (December 2022).  As the Toronto Coderix Addictions Clinic Medical Director Dr. Vincent Lam says in the Globe and Mail: “Prescribed opioids were an integral part of the creation of this crisis. We are not going to be able to prescribe our way out of it.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Mental Health & Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett, Premier David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Minister of Mental Health & Addictions Jennifer Whiteside,  Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Official Opposition Leaders: We are asking you to change course now.

 Follow the best practices in Portugal and Italy that focus on successful recovery-oriented treatment in therapeutic communities.

 Read Dr. Somers’ Call to Action. You may contact Dr. Somers who can refer you to others with professional expertise across Canada.

Contact: Dr. Julian Somers, Registered Clinical Psychologist, Distinguished Professor Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University (SFU) C: 1 (604) 290-3210 julian_somers@nullsfu.ca

Thank-you for your serious consideration on this important issue.