\u0027Safer supply isn\u0027t mitigating illicit fentanyl consumption. It\u0027s actually subsidizing it\u0027
that are aimed at easing the opioid crisis, which his research suggested is simply subsidizing the use of fentanyl.by Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, this week, whose objections to the program’s shortfalls were dismissed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “ideological fear-mongering.”
“The problem is that hydromorphone, which is the opioid which is primarily distributed through Safer supply, while as powerful as heroin, it doesn’t really compare to fentanyl. Its effect relative to fentanyl is like holding a candle to the sun, and so fentanyl users find that it just doesn’t get them high, it doesn’t overcome their high tolerance. So they take their Safer Supply hydromorphone and they sell it on the street at rock bottom prices to make money to buy more fentanyl,” Zivo said.
“That’s a pretty concrete indicator that something is amiss and that there’s a flood of black market supply,” he said.
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