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Safe supply: Are prescribed opioids being sold on BC’s streets, and if so, is it a problem?

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Are opioids prescribed to drug users as a part of British Columbia’s safer supply program being diverted and sold on the streets?

The allegation became a hot issue in the B.C. legislature this week, and even in the federal House of Commons, in the wake of a National Post story claiming significant quantities of the opioid hydromorphone being prescribed to people with substance use disorder are being sold or traded for stronger drugs.

To test these claims, Global News reporter Paul Johnson went to the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver to see if it really is easily available.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/9691790/bc-safe-supply-opioids-diversion-concern/

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