72 BC Doctors Sign Letter Calling for Review of ‘Safer Supply’ Programs

Methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine from a safe supply being handed out to drug users to mark International Overdose Awareness Day, are displayed in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, on Aug. 31, 2021. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

Seventy-two B.C. doctors have come together to criticize provincial “safer supply” strategies and call for better safety measures and more research into the potential harms of such programs.

The move comes the same week B.C.’s auditor general released a report that said the first phase of the province’s prescribed safer supply program was not implemented effectively.