Ontario Premier Doug Ford asks feds to pause safe supply programs

wrote in a letter to the prime minister, while also calling for a review of the Health Canada -approved sites across the country.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Toronto would need provincial support for its decriminalization bid. Ford said he’d like safe supply sites to also require provincial buy-in.“I’m now asking that you also extend the requirement for provincial support to ‘safe supply’ sites, which are approved solely and unilaterally by Health Canada,” the premier wrote.

Opioids have torn through the country over the past decade leaving thousands dead every year. Before that, prescription pills such as oxycodone and Percocets were widely used. Ford, in his letter, pointed to British Columbia’s experience with decriminalization as a reason for opposing safe supply.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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