Why B.C.'s former health officer wants to produce legal heroin

Published: July 16, 2020, 4:10 a.m.

b'British Columbia\'s former provincial health officer, Dr. Perry Kendall, has been a harm-reduction advocate for decades. Now, he\'s planning to launch a company to produce a domestic supply of affordable, legal and pharmaceutical-grade heroin to be used "as a medication for therapy and treatment, but also \\u2026 to try and cut down the number of unfortunate and preventable deaths that we\'re currently seeing."\\n\\nToday on Front Burner, a conversation with Kendall about a safer supply of drugs and the overdose crisis.'