B.C.'s safe-supply drugs aren't being diverted widely despite conservative leaders' claims, officials say

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British Columbia’s solicitor general says there’s no evidence of widespread diversion of safe-supply opioids into the illegal drug market, after a recent seizure was cited by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre to criticize the provincial program.

Mike Farnworth says he’s spoken to the RCMP’s commanding officer in B.C. about the drug seizure in Prince George and was told the idea that there is widespread diversion is “simply not true.”

He says Smith and Poilievre shouldn’t have made claims about the seizure without waiting for all the information.

RCMP in Prince George said last week that the seized pills included morphine

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