{"id":87519,"date":"2017-02-01T18:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87519"},"modified":"2017-02-01T18:07:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:07:27","slug":"liberals-ndp-try-to-expedite-passage-of-legislation-to-address-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/liberals-ndp-try-to-expedite-passage-of-legislation-to-address-opioid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals, NDP try to expedite passage of legislation to address opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87520\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15910692553_58d6c7ebfe_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87520\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15910692553_58d6c7ebfe_k.jpg\" alt=\"The Liberals and NDP are working together to expedite the passage of a bill designed to help combat the country's opioid  (Pictured) crisis, including measures to reduce barriers to accessing supervised injection sites. (Photo: frankieleon\/ Facebook)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15910692553_58d6c7ebfe_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15910692553_58d6c7ebfe_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15910692553_58d6c7ebfe_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15910692553_58d6c7ebfe_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Liberals and NDP are working together to expedite the passage of a bill designed to help combat the country&#8217;s opioid (Pictured) crisis, including measures to reduce barriers to accessing supervised injection sites. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/armydre2008\"> frankieleon\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013The Liberals and NDP are working together to expedite the passage of a bill designed to help combat the country&#8217;s opioid crisis, including measures to reduce barriers to accessing supervised injection sites.<\/p>\n<p>The government legislation, tabled by the Liberals in December, also lifts a restriction that bars border guards from inspecting packages under 30 grams in weight, even if they have reason to believe they contain illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>It would also impose new restrictions on the import of pill presses and encapsulators \u2013two machines commonly used in the production of illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p>NDP health critic Don Davies says it is critical for the legislation to pass as soon as possible to save lives.<\/p>\n<p>He notes not one new injection site has been set up since stringent criteria were established under the previous Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials and political leaders across the country have sounded the alarm about the rise in opioid deaths \u2013a national crisis that was the subject of a summit in Ottawa last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013The Liberals and NDP are working together to expedite the passage of a bill designed to help combat the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,16],"tags":[14513,14514],"class_list":["post-87519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-health","category-news","tag-opioid","tag-passage-of-legislation","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}