Prince George Peer-led drug user group says Safer Supply program isn’t working

PRINCE GEORGE- The BC Coroners Service says a total of 1,095 people have lost their lives during the first six months of this year due to accidental overdose deaths, a record for that period.

That is a BC record for the year’s first half, averaging six daily deaths.

According to the federal government, the Safer Supply Program is an alternative to supplying illegal toxic drugs to people at a high risk of overdose. Still, Curtis Rajacich with the Uniting Northern Drug Users Undoing Stigma group says the province is missing one significant demographic in their program.