Vancouver Coastal Health had contracted the “Drug Users Liberation Front” to provide street-level support for drug users, such as drug-checking and overdose-prevention training
In the midst of a small retreat from the decriminalization experiment that is designed to deal with the overdose-death emergency, the NDP government also stepped back on another drug front.
BC United said the taxpayer-supported group was buying “heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines from organized crime on the dark web.”The claim is disputed, as the group said funding to buy clean drugs is from other sources, separate from the government contract. “It’s unfortunate because they were providing essential life-saving work, but they were also breaking the law.”
During the same argument, the government was pressed on revelations from a National Post exposé about large volumes of hydromorphone pills — dispensed for free to drug-dependent people as a safer alternative to illicit drugs — being converted through social-media platforms into money used for hard drugs.
Meanwhile, the new restrictions being imposed on public use of drugs since use of small amounts was decriminalized nine months ago came under fire in the legislature. Sturko said the government failed to anticipate the consequences at the outset, leaving citizens struggling to keep businesses open, retain staff in the face of violent encounters and pay for vandalism damage.There have been reports of children finding needles in playgrounds, and in one case, a quantity of fentanyl.
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