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Opioid Crisis Response
Responses to the opioid epidemic.
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SUMMARY - Opioid Crisis Response

A paramedic kneels beside an unconscious young man in a parking lot, administering naloxone for the second time this week to the same person, knowing that if the drug works he will watch this man walk away and likely find him unconscious again soon, caught in a cycle of use and overdose and revival that feels like it has no end except the one everybody dreads.

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Thu, 19 Feb 2026 - 06:32
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THE MIGRATION - The $6.3 Billion Failure Machine: How Canada's Substance Use System Spends 80 Cents of Every Treatment Dollar on Relapse

A Cross-LLM Adversarial Stress-Test of the Substance Abuse System

The RIPPLE causal graph stress-test of Canada's substance use system reveals a $6.3 billion annual sunk cost — 13.7% of the total $46B crisis cost — spent on interventions that accomplish nothing. The system doesn't treat addiction; it temporarily interrupts it.

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Sat, 14 Mar 2026 - 20:30
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