I certainly believe that the safe supply, as it's been administered to him in the last two and a half years, has definitely played a role because he's.... The word is “diverting”, but let's use the real word: it's called "trafficking".
I've had the police over to talk to him about what he's doing. He fears law enforcement enough that he's not wanting to go to jail. He doesn't have a criminal record.
Yes, in my view and my lived experience, with the safe supply in my son's case there's no treatment attached to it. It's just the doctor giving him all of these pills. He diverts them, gets the drugs he needs and he's still an addict.
In my view, if he didn't have these pills and was receiving methadone, or if he was receiving his hydromorphone under witness dosage and there was a treatment plan attached to it, I believe it would be successful.
As it stands now, to me it's not successful. It needs to be overhauled. There has to be regulatory oversight.
You're flooding the market, using taxpayers' dollars, with lethal opiates that are making their way into high schools. Adolescents are paying up to $10 a pill for hydromorphone.
How could this be helping us?