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The Canadian government has announced $3.5 million in funding to expand an initiative that aims to offer a new way to provide people with a safer and regulated supply of opioids to prevent overdoses.
A press release from Health Canada published on Tuesday said that with the investment into the MySafe Society safer supply project will allow the initiative to operate in five sites across four cities in Canada; Vancouver, Victoria, Dartmouth, and London.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we must do more to help people using substances to stay safe,” Health Minister Patty Hajdu said in a statement.
“This means using new technology and innovative models, such as the MySafe project, to expand our ability to reach people with opioid use disorder and prevent fatal overdoses.”
MySafe machines look similar to ATMs and after verifying the patient’s identity with a palm scan will provide the patient access to their existing prescriptions for hydromorphone pills. Patients that access the machines are monitored by healthcare practitioners and are connected with health and social services.
The machines also have a number of safeguards in place in order to protect the patients by being tamper-proof and are programmed to only provide the set amount of medication that was prescribed by a physician to registered patients.
This is the same government that won't produce its own flu shots.
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