Again, I'm just going to point to my lived experience with my son. I don't see anything safe about it. How could it be called safe supply, when three-plus plus years later, he's still going to the clinic. He's still seeing the same doctor. All that he's dropped is his methadone, and he's done that himself. I think his methadone should never have been dropped, because the methadone has to be...According to what I've read, you can't drop the methadone if you're still into fentanyl.
All of that is to say that three-plus years later, he's getting his methadone. He's getting his Dilaudid. The Dilaudid is a means or currency for him to continue using crack cocaine, so it's not safe, because he's still using unsafe street drugs. The whole purpose of the safer supply program was to divert addicts from using harmful street drugs.
That's not happening, in my experience. Not only is he continuing to use harmful street drugs, but the safe supply that he's being administered every day by a doctor is making its way where it should not be, which is in the skateparks—my son was a skateboarder. Adolescents have money to buy these pure hydromorphones. I cannot call this safe. Otherwise, my son's results would be different. We're not talking about a month or 30 days; we're talking about three and a half years. There's your experiment of our lived experience of safer supply. Take it from me, it's certainly evidence-based and fact-based.