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B.C. officials push back against safe supply critics and their ‘polarizing rhetoric’

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Why B.C.’s new witnessed dosing guidelines are built to fail

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Photo by Acceptable at English Wikipedia, ‘Two 1 mg pills of Hydromorphone, prescribed to me after surgery.’ [Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons]

By Alexandra Keeler

B.C. released new witnessed dosing guidelines for safer supply opioids. Experts say they are vague, loose and toothless

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‘Over and over until they die’: Drug crisis pushes first responders to the brink

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By Alexandra Keeler

First responders say it is not overdoses that leave them feeling burned out—it is the endless cycle of calls they cannot meaningfully resolve

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