Drug users playing involuntary Russian Roulette with opioids on Montreal streets – CTV News

March 6, 2021

With Montreal public health alerting drug users about a toxic rainbow of pills and powders on the city’s streets, addicts are often playing Russian Roulette to get their fixes.

But unlike the contest of will with a bullet, users are involuntary participants, says Jean-Francois Mary, executive director of safe injection site Cactus Montreal.

Mary objected to the notion in a recent La Presse article that compared drug users to those who willingly put a gun to their heads and pull the trigger.

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