Conrad Black: BC’s ‘Safer Supply’ of Recreational Fentanyl to Minors Is Astonishingly Absurd

Commentary The recent authorization in British Columbia of provision of “safer supply” fentanyl to the youth of the province without any information to or a solicitation of approval from their parents is astonishing and distressing. The B.C. government started offering limited access to supposedly comparatively safe fentanyl in 2020 or possibly slightly before, through a series of pilot projects. This was escalated in August 2023, when the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), which is an influential drug research organization, suggested in protocols that doctors and nurses (both) be enabled to prescribe “safe” fentanyl tablets to anyone, practically regardless of age. The BCCSU confirmed to the extremely enterprising National Post journalist Adam Zivo, as he reported in that newspaper on Jan. 10, that the provincial government had commissioned the production of these protocols to assist “clinicians prescribing safer supply across the province.”...