Your Feb. 28 editorial on diverted safe supply medications (“Drug dealers are easily outplaying the province”) claims that “700 suspected safe supply pharmaceuticals” were recently seized by the RCMP outside a local pharmacy in Prince George, yet there’s nothing in the article that would indicate these drugs were diverted from safe supply programs, which would be very difficult to establish given that hydromorphone pill prescribed for safe supply is identical to a hydromorphone pill prescribed for pain.
Given that safe supply accounts for just three per cent of opioid prescriptions in BC, declaring that these pharmaceuticals have been diverted from safe supply programs is pure unfounded and wildly irresponsible speculation.
In solidarity,
Dylan Griffith
Co-founder, Kootenay Insurrection for Safe Supply, Kootenay Independent Safe Supply Society
