Safe supply

The agonizing proximity of safer supply in Alberta

Clinicians, parents and people who use drugs recall a recent past before the control-obsessed Alberta government vilified, scapegoated and denied regulated opioid access for those at highest risk. A short film by CATIE.

Euan Thomson

Euan Thomson

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A young woman in a striped shift folds her hands in her lap while looking onward toward the camera.
Ophelia Black had to sue the Alberta government to maintain access to regulated hydromorphone, which she credits with keeping her off the fentanyl supply and alive.

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Background reading from Drug Data Decoded:

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