Police working the drug beat at street level in at least two communities say it is happening to some degree
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth on Monday discounted warnings from RCMP officers about drugs from the province’s safe-supply program being diverted to the black market.
Diversion has become a significant controversy since safe supply developed several years ago as one way to deal with the steady death toll from opioid overdoses. The issue has been amplified after Alberta officials raised suspicions that B.C. drugs from the safe-supply program are showing up there. Premier Danielle Smith cited the Prince George seizures and the police warning, saying her province has been warning for years that high-potency opioids from safe-supply programs could be diverted and sold across Canada.
That RCMP detachment has confiscated more than 14,000 pills in the last year. “Our investigative theory is that these drugs are being all bulk-collected and then actually shipped out of province because there’s no reason for these pills to be hoarded in that quantity.”
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