OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing pressure to make safer opioids available to people who use street drugs as overdose deaths continue to increase.
British Columbia’s provincial health officer has called for Ottawa to look at ways of supplying safer opioid drugs, saying B.C. and other parts of the country are grappling with a poisonous street-drug supply that is killing people because they can’t tell what’s in the drugs they use. “When you are in an emergency and the stuff you can get illegally is largely contaminated and may kill you even if you are seeking to be safe, as most people are, then we need to figure out, ‘OK, how do we substitute something safer for you to use instead of what you’re currently purchasing on the street and that is killing too many people,’ ” Elliott said in an interview this week.
Davies said he shares the concern of advocates who recently expressed concern that the federal Liberals won’t want to address the issue in an election year. In a December interview, Tam told The Canadian Press that said clamping down on the market-driven supply of illicit drugs is not easy.
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