Adam Zivo: BC beendet die Praxis, Süchtige mit kostenlosen Drogen nach Hause zu schicken
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-zivo-b-c-winds-down-practice-of-sending-addicts-home-with-free-drugs
Adam Zivo: BC beendet die Praxis, Süchtige mit kostenlosen Drogen nach Hause zu schicken
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-zivo-b-c-winds-down-practice-of-sending-addicts-home-with-free-drugs
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>This course-correction was glacial and grudging, though. When the National Post, citing over a dozen addiction doctors across Canada, [first reported](https://nationalpost.com/feature/how-the-liberal-governments-safer-supply-is-fuelling-a-new-opioid-crisis) on widespread safer supply diversion in mid-2023, the BC NDP [insisted](https://globalnews.ca/news/9723314/bc-doctor-concerns-safer-supply/) that the program was not contributing to addictions or deaths and that diverted hydromorphone seizures were not increasing…
>…Evidence of a diversion crisis only piled up in 2024: not only did the RCMP conduct several [high-profile hydromorphone busts](https://www.thebureau.news/p/thousands-of-diverted-safer-supply), the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police told the House of Commons health committee that [roughly half of the hydromorphone](https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-zivo-b-c-police-are-determined-to-ignore-safer-supply-opioids-flooding-streets) seized in the province could be attributed to safer supply…
>…The BC NDP only pivoted towards witnessed consumption in early 2025, after a [leaked ministerial report](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/adam-zivo-leak-hints-extent-173523699.html) confirmed that the province was secretly investigating safer supply diversion, and that “a significant portion” of safer supply opioids were being resold on the black market and trafficked “provincially, nationally and internationally.”
„EvIdEnCe BaSeD“
Remember when Redditors on this sub were adamant it was right wing misinformation that diversion of „safer supply“ drugs was happening, despite heaps of evidence? Lol.
No one in Vancouver could claim that things have improved under this misguided policy
It’s not so much an argument against providing addicts with the drug of addiction so much as an argument against providing addicts with large bottles of pills to take home with them.
In Switzerland, the UK, Germany and quite a few other countries, they treat the most severe and refractory cases of heroin addiction with heroin. They have to go in person every day to the clinic where they get their dose which is taken under supervision. If a patient is compliant and the piss tests come back as not taking other street drugs they get a single supplementary dose to take home in the evening so they don’t have to come back to the clinic in the evening.
In the Swiss program the addict gets to choose how much and they give them enough to get good and high. And then they pin the dose there. That much every day. They are allowed to decrease if they want. About 60% of those on such a program voluntarily wean themselves off – average time to do so is about 3 years. The rest stay on it for life. It seems to improve general outcomes even a lot of those who keep using stop using other street drugs and get employed etc.
It’s kind of deviously clever in a way. What could be more enticing to an addict to keep them coming in to see a doctor regularly than free heroin?
I forget if it was Ontario or BC…but those taxpayer-funded vending machines that dispensed free drug paraphernalia. Yikes. Not a food idea
Ban the nationalpost, it’s is incredibly biased towards America and does not provide fact based reporting.
I was on on the streets in the DTES when they first introduced this. Thank god I was able to get my life back together. But I can say first hand that safe supply did nothing when in the form of dilaudid or hydro. There was times I was broke and sick and it didn’t matter how much hydro or dilly I took, it would never offset the strength of the stuff on the street and fend off sickness. The pills
Either got stored up in peoples homes (like in my case), or they would sold back to supplier for Pennie’s on the dollar to be used as buff in the street drugs. If they wanted to actually donate supply, they would have given people fentynal before benzos and tranq was mixed into
The supply. Now that that has happened, it’s too late.