Safe Supply: What is it, do people want it, and what impacts might it have?

Overdoses and health problems among people who use drugs are increasing. Safe supply models provide a regulated and known dose of opioids to try to reduce these negative health consequences.
In this webinar we'll explore:
• What is safe supply?
• Recent research on people's preferences for different safe supply models.
• What people say about the potential benefits of different models of safe supply including reduced overdose risk and criminal activity.
Presenters: Addie Palayew, MsC, PhDc, & Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW, UW ADAI CEDEER
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I absolutely support this. This is an innovative and smart solution to the current overdose crisis. With what we know from Canada's pilots, we should make sure that if this moves forward, we need to provide enough drugs to individuals to provide them with what they need. If this means providing supervised pharmaceutical fentanyl consumption, then we must do this.
The prescription model is the best way to address this population, I believe. I think partially-supervised would be best. Or like OTPs, patients can work up to unsupervised doses with normal prescriptions from the pharmacy after some time and some achieved stability.