05-03-2018, 07:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2018, 07:04 PM by panamaniac.)
(04-18-2018, 06:24 PM)embe Wrote:(04-13-2018, 07:26 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: If the doctor prescribes, somebody has to provide. I doubt any doctor is maintaining a supply of heroin for their patients.
Not that they would maintain a supply, but surely they would have access to medicinal grade opioids: morphine, etc.
(04-17-2018, 09:08 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: You would think that at the very least, they'd have testing kits available, so someone could check their drugs for anything unexpected.
If people are putting junk in their veins for a fix, a lot of times they don't care what's in it and/or don't want to wait for the analysis before they shoot up. Sad but true. I suppose that root 'urgency' is why there are so many OD's.
From one of Ottawa's supervised injection sites - the Sandy Hill clinic will be testing street drugs for fentanyl, etc with a $160,000 portable mass spectrometer. Apparently this is the first time a supervised site in Canada is using this technology.
The testing will not be mandatory. It remains to be seen what addicts will do if their drugs test positive.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/new...-1.4646663