B.C. drug recovery homes need investigation and regulation: Moms Stop the Harm

published on November 23, 2023 by Graeme Wood in Vancouver Is Awesome

Drug recovery homes and treatment centres in B.C. are operating with little or no government oversight despite getting funding from health authorities — a matter that requires an independent investigation, according to drug policy reform group Moms Stop the Harm.

“We’re asking the government to look into the funding that a lot of recovery houses are receiving, to see if those funds are being used in an efficient and successful way. We are asking the government to have more oversight into recovery facilities, as there seems to be a lot of failures,” said the group’s co-founder and Pender Island resident Leslie McBain, who lost her 25-year-old son Jordan Miller to a drug overdose.

“There’s a lot of questions that we have about an unregulated system of recovery that is subsidized in part by the government, but there is a big lack of oversight,” said McBain.

Moms Stop the Harm issued an open letter Thursday to B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma and the B.C. government to strike an independent investigation…