Bonnie Henry’s defiant challenge: “If not prescribed safer supply, then what?”

BC’s Provincial Health Officer, repudiated by the politicians, insists on going where the evidence leads her, urging consideration of non-prescribed alternatives to illicit drugs

Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC Provincial Health Officer

An early morning earthquake rattled Victoria on July 11, just hours before Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry released her latest recommendations to confront BC’s continuing toxic drug crisis, now the province’s largest single cause of death.

Henry’s three-part special report included a searching review o…