Chris Selley: Safe supply is doomed, but harm reduction might still be saved (National Post)

It’s getting harder and harder for sane harm-reduction advocates to ignore the intolerable unintended consequences of “safer supply” programs — i.e., prescribing opioid addicts pharmaceutical-grade drugs to prevent them from overdosing on street drugs of unknown strength and content.

Unfortunately for sane harm-reduction advocates, far too many of their zealot colleagues are more than willing to bury their heads in the sand. Some have attacked National Post columnist Adam Zivo, whose reporting has exposed how many “safer supply” prescriptions wind up being sold on the street to fund users’ fentanyl habits — the so-called “diversion” problem — as an outright fantasist, even as more and more addictions specialists voice their concerns on the record ....

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