Breaking the law to provide safe drugs? Nelson advocate says it should be considered
If breaking the law will help end the toxic drug crisis, Nelson’s Dylan Griffith believes the risk is worth saving lives.
But a growing chorus of critics that now include Griffith say the program doesn’t meet the needs of substance users who require safe options that also have the potency of illicit drugs. Griffith thinks that should include providing heroin and methamphetamine that have been screened for fentanyl or other additives such as benzodiazepines.
The B.C. Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions meanwhile announced in 2021 it would spend $22.6 million over three years on expanded access to safe supply. But the program has been criticized for prescribing opioid agonist therapy drugs such as methadone that are clean but don’t meet the needs of substance users who have grown accustomed to the potency of fentanyl.
Griffith says all of these factors mean the time has come for more radical solutions to the crisis. Safe supply, he thinks, should include substances currently considered illicit, not just the ones like methadone or Suboxone designed as a gateway drugs to treatment programs.
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