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Alberta recovery model gets mugged by reality

The latest drug poisoning statistics should give the recovery-oriented system of care's loudest proponents pause. But it won't.

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Jeremy Appel
Jul 03, 2023
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Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre insists drug poisoning deaths are a result of “woke” harm reduction policies. (YouTube/Pierre Poilievre)

Alberta reached a grim milestone in April, with 179 drug poisoning deaths, the most on record, which we only learned last week. You have to go back to December 2021 to find the second-highest month on recor…

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