'We're not doing safe supply in Alberta': Premier rules out drug policy change after record overdoses in April | CTV News
'We're not doing safe supply in Alberta': Premier rules out drug policy change after record overdoses in April | CTV News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will not implement safe supply programs as a way of tackling the opioid crisis after a record month for overdoses in April.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will not implement safe supply programs as a way of tackling the opioid crisis after a record month for overdoses in April.
“(Safe supply) is not our approach in Alberta,” Smith said. “We don't give up on people. We don't believe that enabling people in serious opioid addiction is the pathway.”
Well this just flies in the face of most studies on the matter. It's an appeal to populism that is going to be fatal for some.
I mean really, is she saying?... "Those blokes at the <checks notes> New England Journal of Medicine, don't know what they are talking about! We think opinion columnist Rick Bell from the Calgary Sun has got it right on this one."
Ugh...