Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible

Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible

Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public safety ministry internally acknowledged the negligible role of diverted opioids in the unregulated drug supply. In February 2025, the provincial government announced that it would no longer allow new patients in its medicalized safer supply program to receive take-home doses, and would also transition existing patients a…