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"Our son Ryan, 26, and the vast majority of the 42,000 who have lost lives to the toxic supply of drugs, would be alive today if their substance was legalized, regulated and controlled, like we do for alcohol users."

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[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

A safe supply has a significant lower risk of overdose though. There is absolutely no consistency with potency even with the same dealer/suppliers. You either get a product that has been cut with inert additives to inflate the product supply or you have product that has been spiked with more potent analogs to achieve the same effect. None of this is done with any level of safety to ensure a completely homogeneous mixture meaning within the same batch the potency can vary. Without any consistency in potency users do not know how much they are actually administrating even if that dose appears like one they have previously safely done.

This is a harm reduction technique and is in no way intended to replace other programs but simple reduce the amount of injury and death that is occurring as it's hard to reintegrate an addict into Society if they are dead.