Budget set aside millions to address crisisAdvocates have been pushing for an expansion of harm-reduction projects such as safe supply and supervised consumption sites. Another $4.6 million is earmarked for Health Canada to streamline the authorization of new safe consumption and drug-checking sites. Safe supply programs are meant to offer people who use drugs an alternative to toxic street products which can be laced with deadly opioids such as fentanyl. Photo: (Mike McArthur/CBC)Guy Felicella, a peer clinical adviser for the BCCSU, says he would like to see new safe supply programs that are less bureaucratic and allow people access without a prescription. So non-medical safe supply through compassion clubs or other models, she said.
