When politicians withhold a safe drug supply, Canadians die, by CAPUD2016
means providing people at overdose risk with legal, regulated, and/or prescribed access to mind altering drugs that are sought out under much riskier circumstances in an unregulated, criminalized market.
Tragically, safe supply remains absent from Canada's Drugs and Substances Strategy, which means it is missing from Canadian drug policy at the most fundamental, basic level. Safe supply illustrates the futility of a national drug strategy based on law enforcement and drug prohibition, and how impossible it is to address a systemic overdose crisis when regulated alternative drugs are illegal and withheld by government altogether.
What has prevented Canadian decision makers from making safe supply an essential component of the overdose response and drug policy writ large?" is the fear that a politician or political party has of losing widespread support and confidence from the voting public by proposing actions that are seen as"threatening" to the status quo.
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