BC's provincial health officer proposes expanding the safer-supply program to combat overdoses, enabling access to alternative drugs without a prescription.
B.C. 's provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, suggests expanding the safer-supply program to prevent overdoses, including allowing access to alternatives to unregulated drugs without a prescription. Henry's report highlights that drug prohibition efforts have failed to control access to controlled substances and created a toxic unregulated drug supply, which has led to thousands of deaths since a health emergency was declared eight years ago.
July 11, 2024
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