In BC treten neue Regeln für eine sichere Versorgung in Kraft, mit gemischten Reaktionen

>The move to end take-home safe supply came after leaked internal RCMP slides revealed a „significant proportion“ of prescribed opioids were being diverted and trafficked in B.C.

I remember being told up and down I was wrong for saying yes these pills were being diverted and trafficked.

>Flood says some of those diverted hydromorphone pills, known on the street as „dillies,“ would sell for as little as a few dollars each. Flood, who struggled with addiction for five years before seeking treatment, says he and fellow outreach workers were seeing those cheap pills end up in the hands of teens.

A few dollars is still a bit high, they could be had for $1 and at times less than that. Therein lies the problem, these were ending up in places they were never meant to be, with kids.

As someone who has been on both sides of the problem, lost family and friends to this nonsense, it blows my mind that there are (were) more restrictions on the treatments (methadone, kadian, subs etc) than there were on the safe supply. Lots of people still have to go to a pharmacy every day for their daily witness dose. Somehow that’s ok but requiring the same for dillies in some people’s eyes is too restrictive? Make it make sense. 

Edit: Downvoted, stay classy CanPol….