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WEB POLL: Expand safer drug supply in B.C.?

Should safer supply efforts be widened to prevent more deaths?
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B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe pauses while speaking about the overdose crisis for deaths involving fentanyl-laced drugs in Vancouver on Wednesday September 21, 2016. A new report reviewing thousands of illicit drug deaths over a four-year period will be released today by the coroner. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Thousands of people are still dying every year from a toxic street drug supply in B.C.

Officials from the BC Coroners Service have encouraged an expansion of “safer supply” efforts, which would see drugs supplied via prescription to cut out the network of dealers and their dangerous products.

What do you think?