British Columbia's solicitor general says there's no evidence of widespread diversion of safe-supply opioids, after a recent drug seizure was cited by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre to criticize the provincial program.·Dilaudid, a medication that provides those addicted to opioids a safe supply of the drug, sits on a Vancouver pharmacy counter in this 2023 photo.
On Monday afternoon, however, B.C. RCMP assistant commissioner John Brewer said there is "currently no evidence to support a widespread diversion" of the legally prescribed substances to the illegal drug market. Farnworth said in a hallway of the legislature on Monday that both politicians should have waited for more details.
In an interview last Thursday with CBC News, Prince George RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jennifer Cooper said police concluded the pills were improperly diverted after talking to "contacts at Northern Health," who Cooper said told officers "that morphine and hydromorphone are designated safe supply prescription drugs."