'At least if we can control the supply, we can keep people alive.'
Dylan, 27, and friend Vinney Taylor, 23, outside pop-up injection site after getting high on street heroin in vancouver's Downtown Eastside January 30, 2018.
"One of my constituents lost her nephew to the opioid crisis because of fentanyl and the lack of a safe supply," he said."If we want to save lives, we know that thousands of Canadians are dying because of an unsafe supply. If we want to save lives, we need to make that supply safe." Richard Elliott, the executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, said it is necessary to address the toxicity of the drug supply to ultimately reduce the number of deaths.
Nobody is advocating drug use. But as a public-policy response, they recognize that at least if we can control the supply, we can keep people alive and that's a better public-policy approach than letting them die in the streets or alone in their homes.The opioid crisis is affecting every community in every province and territory, said NDP health critic Don Davies, adding that Canadians understand that people are losing their lives as a result of"poison street supply.
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