Watch: Addiction worker estimates 90% of "safer supply" drugs resold on black market
“It’s just… it’s created more addicts," says David McEvoy, an Ottawa-based outreach worker who specializes in overdose prevention.
“Safer supply” refers to the practice of prescribing free recreational drugs as an alternative to potentially-tainted street substances. While advocates claim that this practice saves lives, David McEvoy, an Ottawa-based addiction outreach worker, says that approximately 90% of clients are reselling their taxpayer-funded drugs on the street, leading to new addictions and relapses.
His testimony is consistent with the testimony of dozens of addiction experts, former drug users, and youth. You can read a summary of his interview in the National Post here.
This is what happens when people (government) do not have addiction experience. Addicts are laughing all the way to the bank. Its insane. There is a solution and it should be developed by those who were addicts and have gotten into recovery… we know exactly the way these decisions by our government are going to go down. Why waste lives, money and public safety by constantly making these decisions that are contributing to the problem. Someone must be making a whole lotta money on this safe supply (pharmaceuticals). This is not going to end well. Canada is dying, Canada is allowing our most vulnerable population to continue to kill themselves publicly… It is painful to watch these harm reduction strategies continue to contribute to this issue. WTF