Adam Zivo: New study shows a quarter of safer supply patients diverting opioids

Program appears to be failing to incentivize addicts to move away from toxic illegal street drugs

A new Vancouver-based study suggests that many “safer supply” patients are diverting their taxpayer-funded opioids to the black market and are possibly being dishonest to researchers about defrauding the system. Worse yet, it appears that safer supply may not be as effective at separating addicts from street drugs as advocates claim, even though the entire point of the program, as described by Health Canada, is to provide “a safer alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply”