A-Dub 🥝CBC Fifth Estate obtained internal Health Canada reports that reveal the federal government was advised by its own experts to expand access to a greater range of safe and regulated drugs for people across Canada but that instead, at the height of the opioid overdose crisis, the government’s support for safe supply programs was watered down and eventually ended:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opioid-overdose-crisis-street-drug-government-funding-9.6976562
They’re at risk of dying from opioid overdose. The government cut funding that could help them | CBC News
As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts’ advice, scaled back their support of safe supply programs, an investigation by CBC’s the fifth estate has found.