By Canadian Press

NewsAlert: B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion

Feb 19, 2025 | 12:50 PM

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply anti-addiction program to a witnessed model, in which users will be watched as they consume the drugs.

Josie Osborne says the “significant” change to end the take-home model will be difficult for some, but is designed to reduce the criminal diversion of prescribed alternatives.

More coming.

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B.C. Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, Josie Osborne, speaks during a news conference in Burnaby, B.C., on June 10, 2024. Osborne was sworn in as B.C.’s health minister in November, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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