Safer supply: Prescribed medications as a safer alternative to ... - Canada
Safer supply refers to providing prescribed medications as a safer alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply to people who are at high risk of overdose. Safer supply services can help prevent overdoses, save lives, and connect people who use drugs to other health and social services.
Future of Canada's first-ever 'safer supply' drug program …
Jan 2, 2024 · Sereda is among 130 experts in substance use who have signed a letter urging the federal government to continue and increase its support as the drug toxicity overdose crisis worsens. In all,...
Safe Supply / Safer Supply Programs - Drug Policy Facts
Conceptually and practically, safer supply measures provide a form of vector intervention toward reducing the drug consumer's exposure to highly potent/toxic ISO drugs and therefore the consequential risk of overdose death (Fischer et al., 2020b).
Safe supply: What is it and what is happening in Canada?
Apr 1, 2021 · Providing a legal and regulated supply of drugs has the potential to support people who use drugs to stay alive and to live safe and healthy lives. This article will explain what “safe supply” means, discuss developments within the Canadian context and describe some examples of safe supply programs in Canada.
Prescribed Alternatives Programs: Emerging Evidence
Safe supply refers to regulated pharmaceutical drugs of known content, quantity, quality, and potency that provide the mind/body altering properties of drugs that are currently only available through illegal markets and not available through traditional opioid …
Early findings from safer supply pilot projects - Canada
Mar 17, 2022 · As the overdose crisis worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, health care experts and people who use drugs called for greater access to a safer supply of prescription medications as an alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply.
The Government of Canada announces additional funding to four …
Mar 17, 2022 · Health Canada began funding safer supply pilot projects in 2020, which use prescribed medications as an alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply to help reduce the risk of overdose. They can also connect people who use drugs to other health and social services.
Prescribed Safer Supply: Frequently Asked Questions
The goals are to reduce people’s overdose risk from the unpredictable and very strong street supply, to reduce harms related to injection drug use and to improve the health of clients. The illegal street supply is unregulated.
“Safer Drug Supply” Measures in Canada to Reduce the Drug …
Nov 8, 2023 · Given the fact that these interventions do not directly aim to address toxic drug exposure as the primary vector and cause of acute overdose deaths, public health–oriented “safer drug supply” measures have been initiated in local settings across Canada.
'Safer drug supply' measures in Canada to reduce the drug …
Oct 3, 2023 · Given the fact that these interventions do not directly aim to address toxic drug exposure as the primary vector and cause of acute overdose deaths, public health-oriented 'safer drug supply' measures have been initiated in local settings across Canada.