Key Takeaways Many people who use heroin or fentanyl keep going to work and raising a family, but they are living in survival mode, so functioning does not mean the…
In February 2020, I spoke with Stephen Finlay, who managed addiction services in the Surrey region of British Columbia for Lookout Housing and Health Society. Among other programs, he oversaw SafePoint, the second federally sanctioned supervised injection site in Canada.
In November 2018, I spoke with Bob Coates, the founder and CEO of SyMedica, a health care consulting company. At the time, he was also working in Washington, D.C., as the health care consultant for a lobbying firm, and he had been following the federal opioid bill closely as it moved through Congress.