Toronto harm reduction workers call for robust safe supply program to prevent deaths
It also said fentanyl continues to show up in the local drug supply in a variety of colours “with unpredictable potency and contamination.”Dayn Kent, co-ordinator of the consumption and treatment service at the Regent Park Community Health Centre, says “robust” safe supply programs — which provide prescribed medications as alternatives to illegal drugs — are necessary to address the “toxic supply” in Toronto.
Hayley Thompson, project manager of Toronto’s drug checking service, says supervised consumption sites and safe supply programs need to be scaled up to prevent overdose-related deaths. Nick Boyce, director of the Ontario Harm Reduction Network, says governments should support safer alternatives for illegal drugs, such as pharmaceutical quality options, to prevent further overdose deaths.Toxic illicit drugs continue to claim lives in B.C – Jun 11, 2022
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