72 BC Doctors Sign Letter Calling for Review of ‘Safer Supply’ Programs

Published on March 21, 2024

Seventy-two B.C. doctors have come together to criticize provincial “safer supply” strategies and call for better safety measures and more research into the potential harms of such programs. The move comes the same week B.C.’s auditor general released a report that said the first phase of the province’s prescribed safer supply program was not implemented effectively. One of the B.C. doctors is Dr. Mark Mallet, a hospitalist at Victoria General Hospital, who penned an op-ed piece published in the Times Colonist last month that expressed his concerns with the NDP government’s claims about safer supply. He said the province needs to do a better job of  balancing the “risk of harms” with any potential benefits that safer supply programs may offer....

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