MLA Elenore Sturko is a former cop who says 'safe supply' has left a trail of heartbreak in B.C. She calls it a betrayal of public trust (National Post)

“One dad I met with early on,” says B.C. MLA Elenore Sturko, “talked to me about his young teen daughter. She died of a fentanyl overdose, and when they cleaned out her room afterwards, they found a bunch of diverted safe supplies, still in the capsule bottles with other people’s prescriptions, the name of the prescribing doctor, the name of the pharmacy” ...

... For Elenore, a former RCMP officer and now member of the BC legislature representing the citizens of Surrey-Cloverdale, BC’s experimental policy is a massive failure. “They were marketed as safe supply,” she says in a recent conversation. “Don’t worry. These are clean drugs. It’s government drugs. Nothing can happen to you. They quickly became dependent, and when that was no longer meeting their needs, they transitioned to fentanyl. Some of those people died of fentanyl overdoses" ...

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