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Halifax, Nova Scotia - Four years after marijuana use was legalized nationwide, political momentum is growing in Canada for the decriminalization of mos ....
Four years after marijuana use was legalized nationwide, political momentum is growing in Canada for the decriminalization of most other illicit drugs. Negotiations with the federal health ministry are progressing on an application from the province of British Columbia for an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The exemption would legalize possession of… ....
How safe supply of drugs is saving lives and destigmatizing substance use Judy Darcy, B.C.’s minister of mental health and addictions, announced last March that physicians could prescribe pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs for people who use substances. In September, Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, passed an order allowing registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses to prescribe controlled substances in an attempt to increase access to a safer supply after a record-breaking number of drug toxicity deaths over the summer. One factor that contributed to this surge of deaths is an extremely toxic and illegally produced drug supply with high fentanyl concentrations in all illicit substances. This is in part due to border closures shutting off supply chains. ....
by Charlie Smith on February 11th, 2021 at 3:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 There was a record number of illicit-drug overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2020. And the Canadian Association for Safe Supply has linked this high number to inaction on the part of the provincial government. According to the group s cofounder, Jordan Westfall, the province was caught flat-footed during a pandemic when we needed physical distancing and safe supply . In a news release, he said that few could access that supply and it wasn’t exactly safe, although patients were never told that.” That needs to change, Westfall said, 83,000 people struggle with opioid dependence placing them at higher overdose risk. ....