Dr. Bonnie Henry told a news conference Monday that the province will review the guidelines and look at alternative methods for increasing access
B.C.’s program to prescribe some drug users with a safer supply is being reviewed, the Provincial Health Officer says, as officials examine whether it should cover more people and make more pharmaceutical alternatives available.
She said a revamped safer-supply program should work in tandem with ensuring better access to treatment and housing, and enforcement of drug laws on those who traffic in deadly substances. Dr. Henry said she wants the review of safer supply to examine whether it should include greater access to opioid alternatives other than hydromorphone – the medication currently most commonly used in such programs. She said clinicians have concerns that hydromorphone is not meeting the needs of drug users who have been exposed to a much more toxic and contaminated supply.
“Are there non-medical models that still have controls? So it’s not just drugs being available to people whatever they want, whenever they want, but what we need to have is controls that meet people’s needs with different medications being available and different types of models.” Dr. Bach said he agrees with Dr. Henry’s comments that multiple models for accessing a regulated and predictable drug supply are needed, and that appropriate models will vary widely depending on the population, the context and the drug itself.
“Our current approach leaves the production and distribution in the hands of organized crime, and they have no such considerations when their only motive is profit,” he said.
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