The Truth About Canada's Opioid Crisis—Part 3

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

[ Part 3 of 3 ] The truth about Canada’s Opioid Crisis is complicated and multi-faceted, but many experts in the field are clear about what’s going wrong.

In this final part, we'll explore the evidence and data, and delve into what addiction is and where it originates.

We'll look at what grief-stricken families are saying about Canada's slow and limited response to the opioid crisis—and what they are demanding be done instead.

Finally, we’ll circle back to Mary Breen for her reflections on the sentencing hearing for the young man convicted of selling her daughter Sophie the fentanyl that killed her.

Resources for those affected by the Opioid Crisis:

More info:

Any Kind of Luck at All a memoir by Mary Fairhurst Breen (Sophie Breen's mother)
Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis by Benjamin Perrin
Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial by Benjamin Perrin

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In honour of August 31, International Overdose Awareness day, we’ve donated to Moms Stop the Harm.

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0:36.1	coarse language. It's not for everyone. Please take care when listening.
0:41.6	This is the final part of a three-part series.
0:45.0	We have shared the stories of Sophie Breen, Seth McClain, Sky Krasweller and Morgan Goodridge,
0:52.0	four young Canadians from completely different walks of life
0:56.0	who all met the same tragic fate.
0:59.5	They were among the almost 40,000 Canadians who have died of toxic drug poisoning since 2016.
1:07.0	Most of those deaths were accidental, caused by street drugs contaminated with deadly illegal fentanyl.
1:14.8	In this final part, we'll define the leading contributors to Canada's opioid crisis
1:21.0	and what is currently being done here to address it, including the very different
1:25.8	approaches taken by British Columbia and Alberta, and the very recent data showing the shocking
1:32.1	results of those approaches. We'll delve into what
1:35.9	addiction actually is and where it originates and look at what advocates including
1:41.5	grief-stricken families of those lost to the opioid crisis, are saying
1:46.4	about Canada's current response to it and what they are demanding be done instead.
1:52.7	And finally, we'll circle back to Mary Breen, mother of Sophie Breen, who passed away in Guelph
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