The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act : The Good, the Bad, and the Ineffective

[Introduction]: "In Canada, people who use drugs are dying in  record numbers. Between January 2016 and September 2019, more than 14,700 people died  of apparent opioid overdoses in this country.1 In Ontario alone, more than 1450 people died from opioid-related causes in 2018.2 The overwhelming majority of these overdoses and deaths involve fentanyl or its analogues, a potent drug that is now present in many street drugs. Never before have we experienced an overdose crisis of this magnitude, which is only exacerbated by the criminalization  of personal drug possession."