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Alberta urges feds to take measures to discourage the sale of government-provided drugs on the black market
Adam Zivo
Published Feb 07, 2024 • Last updated 6 hours ago • 4 minute read
Yesterday, Alberta’s minister of mental health and addiction, Dan Williams, wrote the federal government urging that “safer supply” drugs be made traceable to discourage diversion — something he described as “a human catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.” If harm-reduction advocates truly care about keeping communities safe, they should support these common-sense measures and urge the federal government to adopt them.
Safer supply programs claim to reduce overdoses and deaths by providing government-funded alternatives to potentially tainted illicit substances. That typically means distributing hydromorphone — a pharmaceutical opioid as potent as heroin — to mitigate the use of street fentanyl
A wide range of sources have confirmed that these programs are being defrauded and that users regularly “divert” (sell) their safer supply on the black market to buy stronger substances. Organized crime is profiting from this trafficking and drug dealers ship wholesale packages containing hundreds, sometimes thousands, of diverted safer supply hydromorphone pills across Canada.
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Adam Zivo
Published Feb 07, 2024 • Last updated 6 hours ago • 4 minute read
Yesterday, Alberta’s minister of mental health and addiction, Dan Williams, wrote the federal government urging that “safer supply” drugs be made traceable to discourage diversion — something he described as “a human catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.” If harm-reduction advocates truly care about keeping communities safe, they should support these common-sense measures and urge the federal government to adopt them.
Safer supply programs claim to reduce overdoses and deaths by providing government-funded alternatives to potentially tainted illicit substances. That typically means distributing hydromorphone — a pharmaceutical opioid as potent as heroin — to mitigate the use of street fentanyl
A wide range of sources have confirmed that these programs are being defrauded and that users regularly “divert” (sell) their safer supply on the black market to buy stronger substances. Organized crime is profiting from this trafficking and drug dealers ship wholesale packages containing hundreds, sometimes thousands, of diverted safer supply hydromorphone pills across Canada.
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Adam Zivo: Stem the diversion 'catastrophe' by making safer supply opioids traceable
Alberta urges feds to take measures to discourage the sale of government-provided opioids on the black market
