Overview
Legislation
Parliamentary Inquiry
April 06 2026: Debate over “safe supply” program
- 2:40 – “Well “safe supply” was really sort of pioneered in BC in [sic] 2012.”
- 4:40 – “Has the safe supply program created a system that pays doctors to churn out pills and flood the streets with diverted drugs?”
- 4:57 – “In my opinion, yes it has.”
Program Varieties
Government-Approved Drugs
Diacetylmorphine (aka DAM)
- Injectable heroin
- Distributed by Fair Price Pharma
Methadone
- Oral, synthetic heroin
- Commonly used for weaning off of heroin addiction, under supervision
Suboxone
- Oral, synthetic heroin
Hydromorphone
- Oral, synthetic heroin
- Supplied by MySafe Society
Overdose Prevention Sites
- aka “safe injection sites” or “supervised injection sites”
- Article: Day et al., “Healthcare utilization and mortality after overdose prevention site closure: A linked cohort analysis using segmented difference-in-differences time series”, Addiction, March 10 2026.
- Basically says no increase in overdoses occurred after an overdose prevention site was shut down, meaning the site did nothing to mitigate overdoses.
MySafe Society
- MySafe Project for Low Barrier Access to Oral Hydromorphone to Prevent Fatal Overdoses
- Program that deploys biometric vending machines that dispense drugs and paraphernalia.
- March 02 2021: $3.5 million from Minister Patty Hadju (Government of Canada)
- Article: Mansoor et al., “Community partner perspectives on the implementation of a novel safer supply program in Canada: a qualitative study of the MySafe Project”, Harm Reduction Journal, vol 20 #61 (2023).
- Dr. Mark Tyndall – (video: AllianceON, November 17 2020)
Rectal Drug Kits
- Procedure also known as “bootie bumping”
- aka shoving hard drugs up your ass
- Promoted by organizations with funding from the federal government, such as CATIE.
- Rebel News report (video: Rebel News, March 22 2026):
Organizations
Public Health Agency of Canada
- Principal funder of various organizations.
Canada’s Source for HIV and hepatitis C information (CATIE)
Substance Use Health Network (SUHN)
- aka “National Safer Supply Community of Practice”
- Connected to MySafe
- Funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada (aka Health Canada).
Fair Price Pharma (FPP)
- Dr. Perry Kendall
- Dr. Martin Schechter
Actors
Patty Hadju
- Approved funding to several programs
- Government of Canada: Minister of Health
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Dr. Mark Tyndall
- MySafe
- BC Centre for Disease Control: Executive Director (2014-2018)
- BC Government: Deputy Provincial Health Officer (2014-2018)
- University of Ottawa (2010-2014)
- St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver: Head of Infectious Diseases (2004-2010)
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS: Program Director for Epidemiology (1999-2010)
- McMaster University: Internal Medicine Training
- University of Manitoba: Infectious Disease Training
- Harvard University: Public Health Training
Dr. Perry Kendall
- Fair Price Pharma (FPP)
- Originally declared public health emergency over opioid crisis
- University of BC: Faculty of Medicine (School of Population and Public Health)
- BC Government: (ex)Provincial Health Officer
- Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario: President (1995-1998)
- City of Toronto: Medical Officer of Health (1989-1995)
Dr. Martin Schechter
- Fair Price Pharma (FPP)
- A leading advocate for diacetylmorphine and hydromorphone as opioid addiction treatment.
- Leading researcher behind NAOMI (clinical trial on heroin-assisted treatment)
- University of BC: Faculty of Medicine (School of Population and Public Health)
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Created April 06 2026