The majority of opioid overdose deaths are street users who obtain their drugs on the street through organized crime. The  majority of Canadians who are prescribed opioids are legitimately prescribed them by doctors for legitimate pain management.

Opioid prescriptions are on the rise because the baby boomers are entering their prime pain management years. Not because doctors have become more liberal with their prescription pen.

The vast majority of illegal opioid users got hooked on the street not in their doctors office.

The system is already so strict that good quality pharma grade opioids are less and less available to street users which has opend up a massive black market of back alley fentanyl from China which has massively increase the death rate in the past several years.

Further tightening up the supply of prescription grade drugs will only increase the black market of  fentanyl killing more Canadians.

Science based harm reduction please. Not ideology.