Class Action Lawsuit Over Safe Supply Filed in BC Court Against Province, Ottawa

A proposed class action lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court this week claims both the provincial and federal governments are liable for the addictions and, in one case, the death of adolescents gaining access to diverted safer supply drugs. The civil class action claim was filed by family members on behalf of two teenage girls whose struggles with drugs has left one in treatment and the other dead of an overdose, according to Global News. The plaintiffs in the proposed case are 17-year-old Amelie North and Kamilah Sword, who died of an overdose in August of 2022 at the age of 14. The teens, both from Port Coquitlam, B.C., were best friends....