British Columbia’s auditor general says two government programs aimed at curbing the death toll from the toxic-drug crisis were not “effectively implemented” by the province’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and Ministry of Health.
Michael Pickup’s office released a report Tuesday on the government’s overdose prevention and supervised consumption services and the first phase of the prescribed safer-supply program, launched amid a public-health emergency that has claimed more than 14,000 lives.
“In both of these audits we found significant deficiencies in the provincewide implementation of these programs,” Pickup said in a press conference.
The audit found the ministries’ guidance didn’t include minimum
