APTN National News
The highly addictive drug OxyContin has been taken off the pharmacy shelves in Ontario and replaced it with a new one.
The new form called OxyNeo is harder to crush, making it difficult for those addicted to opiates to inject or inhale.
Chiefs are calling for government to put proper plans in place to deal with withdrawals of OxyContin and they are issuing a warning that crime rates are likely to increase.
APTN National News reporter Donna Smith sat down with Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee to discuss the issue.
Madahbee’s organization represents 39 First Nations in Ontario.
bojo Chief Madahbee, may be if we can get the government to subsidize us to pay for naturals medicinesthat we harvest , even to pay us to travel from point a to point b to get the medicine or to see a madicine man/woman, we wouldn’t see any anishinabeks hooked on that poison shit the the white doctors hand out to indian peoples like candy .we would see less sucides , no addicts,we would begin to see youg/elderly healthy people walking around true story … yes?