A new provincial strategy to curb opioid addiction and overdoses is a Band-Aid solution, but will hopefully spur a more proactive approach to combating drug use, a local drug strategy specialist says. "It's a start and hopefully the start of something bigger and better," Michael Parkinson of the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council told CBC KW's The Morning Edition host Craig Norris Thursday. "What's often missed in media and policy announcements is the impact of opioid withdrawal on families and certainly the individual," Parkinson said. Suboxone is considered safer than methadone and Parkinson says from talking to users, people tend to prefer suboxone. (CBC)"They are absolutely critical measures at a time when we are facing a public-health crisis across the country," Hoskins told a news conference Wednesday of the new strategy.

Source: CBC News October 13, 2016 15:45 UTC