Cape Breton's high rate of drug use has devastating effects
CBC
The Ally Centre of Cape Breton says the island has the highest rate of illicit drug use in Atlantic Canada and that has had devastating — and often unseen — effects on people.
The Nova Scotia government says it does not have data to confirm the rate of drug use, but it does say the eastern health zone, which includes Cape Breton, has the highest rate of deaths from drugs in the province.
David Crowe has lost most of his family and his former life — and sacrificed his health — because of his drug use.
The Sydney resident is now in an opioid replacement program, but he still struggles with an inescapable attraction to getting high, and that means sometimes slipping back into the use of illicit and illegal drugs.
Crowe said he's been an addict in one form or another all his life and it started with alcohol.
"I lost everything that I owned," he said. "All my savings, anything I've ever worked for and managed to have that mattered to me.
"I used to own a house. Own. Mortgage free and clear. Owned it. I had a small business, a beautiful wife and two beautiful children. When that all went to hell, that was all about the drinking back then."
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