Safer-supply drug distribution halted
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B.C. NDP finally admits organized crime profits from safer-supply drugs
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B.C. New Democrats halt free and easy distribution of safer-supply drugs this week after two years of denying they were being diverted to an illicit market overseen by organized crime.
Health Minister Josie Osborne issued the statement shortly before the first question period of the new legislature session.
Opposition MLA Elenore Sturko first raised concerns about diversion of safer supply drugs in February 2023 .
In short, NDP policy amounted to “don’t ask, don't tell — and especially don”t tell the news media.
The premier and his ministers had discounted the problems of open drug use until belatedly conceding last year that it had to be curbed.
It has become a pattern with this government's failing experiment in drug decriminalization.
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