After Feds Cut Funding, B.C. Keeps ‘Safer Supply’ Programs Running — for Now

After feds cut funding, B.C. keeps ‘safer supply’ programs running — for now

Between 2017 and March 2025, Health Canada says it funded $126 million through its Substance Use and Addictions Program, money it stopped providing this spring.

Why is B.C.’s safer supply program shrinking?

By Alexandra Keeler Experts say physicians have lost their ‘zeal’ for prescribing safer supply amid growing concerns about diversion and effectiveness Participation in B.C.’s safer supply program — which offers prescription opioids to people who use drugs — has dropped by nearly 25 per cent over the past two years, according to recent government data. The B.C. Ministry of Health says updated prescribing guidelines and tighter program oversight …

Feds Confirm End to Safer Supply Funding as Drug Deaths Mount — Coastal Front

(Image courtesy CBC) The federal government says it has no plans to renew funding for “safer supply” programs, drawing criticism from harm-reduction advocates and renewed calls from conservatives to abandon decriminalization altogether.In a statement to CBC News, Health Canada says financial support for prescribed alternatives — safer opioids offered in place of increasingly toxic street drugs — ended in March and will not resume. Thirty-one pil…