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A B.C. psychologist who led a major study into drug addiction and criminality is speaking out again now that the government is shutting down its drug decriminalization experiment.

Julian Somers, a clinical psychologist from Simon Fraser University, who opposed the decriminalization plan, was part of a two-decade study that spanned addiction, homelessness, housing and the justice system.

One conclusion from the study was that getting people properly housed was a top predictor of success for people suffering from addiction.

“When people are offered the opportunity to re-assimilate into healthy communities, they rise to that challenge,” Somers said.

Then-housing minister David Eby was briefed by Somers in 2021 about a week before the government ordered the deletion of the data.

As Paul Johnson reports, Somers says government officials had the best research available to help them through the process, but chose to ignore it.

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