Canada’s public health chief seeks to reduce stigma toward drug users:
“Canadians don’t actually understand where individuals who use drugs are coming from in their background. Nobody chooses to have problematic substance use or substance use disorder,” she said. “And I think there’s too much of a separation in our current context between ‘them’ and ‘us’. I think the general population tends to think this is not going to happen to me, and this is happening somewhere else to a different population. Well, actually, it is all of us being impacted.”
Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada’s Public Health Agency
Public Health Agency of of Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam
