Safe Supply

• Approval of yet another DTES pharmacy renews safe supply questions

  Flash Pharmacy and Medical Centre has been given approval to open at 66 West Hastings, and will be the sixth in a tight geographic area.

  Health

  Sep 2
  
• After feds cut funding, B.C. keeps ‘safer supply’ programs running — for now

  Between 2017 and March 2025, Health Canada says it funded $126 million through its Substance Use and Addictions Program, money it stopped providing this spring.

  Health

  Jul 31
  
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• B.C. overhauls its safe supply program to a witness model

  Health Minister Josie Osbourne said they know people have benefited from these prescribed alternatives, which were first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Health

  Feb 19
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• B.C. investigating ‘significant’ prescribed opioid diversion

  A "significant portion" of opioids prescribed in B.C. are being diverted, and prescribed alternatives are being trafficked a Ministry of Health document says.

  Health

  Feb 5
• BC Election: Greens vow to expand safer supply of drugs

  Former B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe threw her weight behind a BC Green campaign pledge to expand safer supply of opioids and other drugs.

  Politics

  Sep 24, 2024
• Class action lawsuit proposed against B.C. government over safe supply drug program

  The plaintiffs' daughters were best friends and both purchased drugs diverted from the government's program that they believed was safe.

  Health

  Aug 14, 2024
• Diversion of safe supply drugs makes up majority of seized opioids: London police

  A major issue that police and community health prescribers are tackling is the diversion of Dilaudid from prescribed safe supply programs.

  Crime

  Jul 15, 2024
• Peterborough clinic’s safer-supply program reports drop in overdoses, drug use

  Approximately 86 per cent of individuals reported using less or no fentanyl after 12 months in the safe supply program based on data from May 2022 to December 2023.

  Health

  Jun 13, 2024
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• Ford calls drug decriminalization a ‘nightmare’ that will ‘never’ happen in Ontario

  Drug decriminalization is an “absolute nightmare” that will “never” happen in Ontario under the current Progressive-Conservative government, Premier Doug Ford says.

  Politics

  May 24, 2024
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• Ontario Premier Doug Ford asks feds to pause safe supply programs

  Ford has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking the federal government to review the Health Canada-approved safe supply sites across the country.

  Canada

  May 17, 2024