OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing pressure to make safer opioids available to people who use street drugs as overdose deaths continue to increase. The push is coming from public-health advocates and from at least one Liberal MP, Toronto's Nathaniel Erksine-Smith. "One of my constituents lost her nephew to the opioid crisis because of fentanyl and the lack of a safe supply," he said. If we want to save lives, we need to make that supply safe." British Columbia's provincial health officer has called for Ottawa to look at ways of supplying safer opioid drugs, saying B.C.

Source: Huffington Post February 28, 2019 03:11 UTC