It calls on the province to develop a policy to distribute a safer supply of drugs and offer better health supports with a plan that would see action taken within the next 90 days.
The new report found that deaths from illicit drug-related overdoses are increasing both in number and in rate, the drug supply has become increasingly toxic, and the average age of death is trending younger.
implemented in 2020, and expanded in 2021, a safer supply program, the first and only province in Canada to do this,” Malcolmson said in a written statement.
“When he was coming out, we had said to him, ‘You can’t come and stay with us.
Douglass said she gave her son a hug, gave him a garbage bag containing his belongings, and he left.
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