Earlier today, I shared a clip of @BCPoliceChiefs President Fiona Wilson at the House of Commons Health Committee saying that 50% of hydromorphone seizures in BC are diverted "safe supply". Tonight, I received a phone call from @VancouverPD where @FionaWilsonVPD is Deputy Chief, trying to downplay diversion, suggesting I need "more context" because the video was a clip of a bigger conversation. So just for "more context" here is the longer clip, where the Deputy Chief states that even though "safe supply" hydromorphone accounts for only 20% of opioid prescriptions - it's 50% of the police seizures, which makes it even worse. 1/2 #bcpoli
2/2 Deputy Chief Wilson also points to a significant issue with counterfeit prescriptions. Especially dangerous, now that people have been led to believe they can obtain "safe" drugs, even on BC streets. It appears as though police have data showing the seriousness of diversion that @mikefarnworthbc & @JM_Whiteside insisted they don't have. The BCNDP need to come clean with what they know before more British Columbians become addicted to opioids and die.
I ask you again, bc I’ve asked previously and been ignored: what is your action plan for people who are already addicted/dying with street supplies of substances? This poses an immediate and fatal problem, not fear mongering based on nonsense due to biased opinion/personal interest against alternatives to criminalizing PWUD. We see you Eleanore.
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD Are you deaf? You clickbait and it’s going to cost people their lives. You are not a physician. You are not an addiction specialist. I am and your rhetoric is dangerous. @FionaWilsonVPD should sue you for slander. 🪶😡
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD Should we maybe get rid of the safe supply of alcohol? Considering how much is getting in the hands of children?
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD Seems to me politics is now minimizing the impact of decrim, safe supply diversion, and the increased risk of drug addiction to teens who may believe some drugs are 'safe'. We simply cannot get rid of the @bcndp fast enough.
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD How do we know the dealers are not crushing the safe supply hydromorphone, adding fentanyl or another drug, then pressing it back into pill form? Those would also be connected connected to the safe supply.
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD Even if they resale the safe supply drugs, they still end in the hand of people who should have access to said safe supply in the first place.
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD You do know that (RCMP) could have seized alot more hydromorphone tablets BUT they have better things to do. Just curious whether their sample size ( N) is large enough to be considered statistically significant.
@elenoresturko @BCPoliceChiefs @VancouverPD @FionaWilsonVPD Omg I wonder what we could do to reduce the number of counterfeit pills!!!! Should we try regulating the supply or