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In the second segment McCully chats with Stewart, the former Mayor of Vancouver. In the book Decrim, he outlines how ending the war on drugs and recognizing the overdose crisis as a public health issue will help reduce stigma related to substance use, increase access to health services and decrease harms related to criminalization in British Columbia.
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