The Harper gang has figured out how to solve the wave of Oxycontin addiction that has become a major issue in poor communities across Canada.
It's really simple.
Just take away the Oxy.
Hundreds of thousands of addicts will have no choice but to straighten up and fly right.
Overnight.
Or tap into the vast underground Oxy supply network.
In other words, the federal government intends to solve the Oxy problem by driving addicts into the arms of criminal networks.
At least this approach is consistent with Harper's stance at Cartagena last week.
There's no problem with the war on drugs or drug laws; the problem is the addicts!
Let's solve the drugs problem by coming down really hard on addicts!
Let's get serious about punishing people who are addicted to drugs!
After all, why make addiction a health issue when you can just shovel more souls into for-profit prisons?
No sector of Canadian society has been more brutally impacted by Oxy addiction than the Native community.
Chronic poverty with no way out, a culture of dependency fostered by the federal government, and a four hundred year tradition of being exploited by the dominant white culture have left Canada's Native community ripe for addiction epidemics.
By all accounts the Oxy epidemic is more virulent and more destructive of Native society than anything that has gone before.
Addiction means dependency. Native communities have succumbed to Oxy addiction for many reasons, all of which are readily fathomable to anyone who makes the effort to understand Indian disenfranchisement in Canada.
To "solve" the problem by simply taking out the Oxy, without any plan to deal with the inevitable fallout, is cruel, inhumane, stupid, and counterproductive.
This policy will further enslave the Native population and further empower the criminal networks.
It is a gigantic step backwards.
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