NATIONAL POST: Addictions doctors urge feds to supervise hydropmorpone or stop handing out free drugs
In their open letter, the doctors say there are unintended harms of safer supply. But other doctors argue the data suggest it can be helpful More than a dozen addictions doctors have written to the federal government, calling on the Liberals to ensure that safe-supply drugs are provided in a supervised fashion or not at all. In recent months, debate has exploded over Canada’s use of pharmaceutical-grade hydromorphone as an alternative for street drugs such as heroin or fentanyl, with the hope of reducing opioid overdose deaths. In 2020, the federal government funded 10 pilot projects that distributed hydropmorphone to opioid addicts in British Columbia, Ontario and New Brunswick ... CLICK HERE for the full story