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B.C. top doctor calls for more kinds of safe drugs to be available to those in need

Dr. Bonnie Henry says that prescribed safe supply program should be about ‘prescribed alternatives’
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British Columbia’s provincial health officer Bonnie Henry defends B.C.’s safe supply program, while recommending changes to the program itself as well as other measures to fight the toxic drug crisis, including a call to the province to “work with manufacturers and distributors to expand opioid medication options available to people at risk of opioid overdose.” (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito)

B.C.’s top doctor says the province’s prescribed safe supply program is succeeding as one tool to save lives from the ongoing toxic drug crisis, and is recommending that the government expand what substances people are able to access through it.

Dr. Bonnie Henry released her 96-page review of the program on Thursday (Feb. 1), about four years after prescribed safer supply was first rolled out.

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