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🚨 WATCH 🚨 New documentary exposes how "safer supply" opioids are harming Canadian teenagers.

Through tears and rage, parents describe how their kids got hooked on taxpayer-funded drugs.

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@Biskitty_Boy We recommend that you watch the documentary in its entirety, as these issues are addressed in the film.

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🚨 NEW DOCUMENTARY 🚨

14-year-old Kamilah Sword, along with her friends, developed crippling opioid addictions after using diverted "safer supply" drugs.

Kamilah died. Her friends survived.

Now their loved ones want to warn the public about Canada's "safer supply" experiment.

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Joanne Bagnall explains what it was like to have her son addicted to diverted "safer supply" opioids.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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Callum Bagnall describes the impact that his addiction to diverted "safer supply" opioids has had on his life.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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Dr. Janel Gracey, an addiction physician from London, Ontario, says that it is now "very common" to have teenagers seek treatment after getting addicted to diverted "safer supply" opioids.

��Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrgs5

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Callum Bagnall says that, when he was addicted to diverted "safer supply" opioids, he met drug dealers who would traffick these pills throughout Ontario.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrgs5

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Dr. Janel Gracey, an addiction physician from London, Ontario, explains how Canada's "safer supply" programs are dangerously under-regulated.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrgs5

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Callum Bagnall, a former drug user who bought thousands of diverted "safer supply" pills, says that all of the fentanyl addicts he met in rehab knew about "safer supply" fraud.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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Dr. Janel Gracey, an addiction physician from London, Ontario, says the diversion of "safer supply" drugs is "not a myth" and that it cannot be tracked through urine testing.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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Dr. Janel Gracey, an addiction physician from London, Ontario, says that approximately 200 patients of hers have told her that "safer supply" drugs are being diverted to the black market.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrgs5

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Joanne Bagnall from Ontario recalls how, the day her son went to rehab, she found "safer supply" prescription bottles stowed in his room. He had purchased these drugs from the black market.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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A former drug user, who purchased thousands of "safer supply" pills, explains how these government-provided opioids prolonged his addiction and left him broke.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrgs5

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Harm reduction activists say the diverted "safer supply" opioids flooding into Canadian cities are probably counterfeit. This former drug user explains why that isn't true.

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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The federal government says that "safer supply" opioids aren't being widely diverted to the black market – so how did Callum buy thousands of these pills?

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrOhD

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Listen to Callum Bagnall describe how Canada's "safer supply" programs flooded his community with cheap opioids. 💊

“Government Heroin” | Full Documentary
Watch it here: https://t.co/40hjUcrgs5

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🚨 Learn how "safer supply" programs flooded a Canadian city with opioids, caused a wave of relapses, and led a 25-year-old student into a pit of addiction 🚨

WATCH "Government Heroin," a new 19-minute documentary by @adamzivo 📽️💊💉

Youtube version: https://t.co/rS44k6QmLa

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Several teenage girls developed opioid addictions after experimenting with diverted "safer supply" drugs. Their families are now suing the government.

Read more: https://t.co/p3oXw4ZMSa

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"On Aug. 19, 2022, Kamilah Sword took a single hydromorphone pill, believing it to be safe. She overdosed and was found dead by her grandmother the next day. She was 14."

Read more: https://t.co/p3oXw4Zf2C

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Amelie North is a B.C. teenager who developed an addiction to diverted "safer supply" opioids. Her family is now suing the government.

Listen to what she has to say about adults who deny the existence of the "dilly" epidemic.