Councillor and mayoral candidate Rob Ford has spoken out about an audio recording where a constituent asks him to get prescription drugs a doctor will no longer prescribe.
At a press conference Thursday, Ford says the situation was the result of a good deed gone wrong.
Ford says he offered to find a man OxyContin because he feared for the safety of his family and he wanted to get off the phone with the caller who appeared disturbed and distressed.
The tape is now being investigated by police because it allegedly contains threats, a person with Ford's campaign says.
Ford says he feels ‘set up' after a tape recording was obtained by the Toronto Sun in which the mayoral candidate says he'll try to help an HIV-positive man get some OxyContin.
Ford spoke with the 30-year-old man in a 52-minute conversation on June 4. In it, Dieter Doneit-Henderson says his doctor refused to prescribe more of the addictive painkiller.
At one point in the conversation Doneit-Henderson asks if Ford can get some OxyContin, and Ford responds more than once that he'll try, the Sun reports. Ford also asks how much it goes for on the street.
Ford, a city councillor, says he did call MPP Donna Cansfield and asked her to help find Doneit-Henderson a doctor.
In the article from the Sun, Ford says he told the man whatever he wanted to hear because the conversation started to concern him that the man knew where he lived with his young family, and Doneit-Henderson started to become more threatening.
