Kaden Venugopal is an MSc. Candidate in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow. He earned his BSc. in Public Health at the University of Ottawa.
Safe supply is not a magic bullet to cure our overdose emergency. However, under cautious guidelines, prescriber-based safe supply initiatives have a role to play in saving lives.
MAiD is currently available for those with mental illness. But there are treatment options that exist that have yet to be legalized. It's time to increase access to psychedelic-assisted therapies.