“This project has been going since September 2019 and we’ve successfully distributed 5,000 prescriptions out of our kiosks,” said Dispension Industries president and CEO Corey Yantha. The MySafe team says the federal funding validates its technology and health-care strategy and proves that it works and at the same time will allow them to expand the project. For some, it’s been great leaps and to the point where they aren’t even using drugs anymore.” “And I think they’ve all made positive steps forward. “I’ve got to know personally, the handful of people who are on the machine, the 20 or so,” said Tyndall. Mark Tyndall, who founded the MySafe Society in 2007, says the technology gives patients low-barrier access to safe drugs and prevents overdoses, while also helping change people’s lives. The MySafe project has dispensing machines set up at five locations in four cities across the country, including sites in Vancouver, Victoria, London, Ont., and Dartmouth, N.S.ĭr.
“These are having an adverse effect on people, particularly who use drugs, many of whom are homeless and don’t have the structural support to allow them to self-isolate or to be safe in these times.” “We’re in the midst of concurrent crises with the overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Michaelis. The overdose crisis continues to accelerate across Canada and in particular in British Columbia, where overdose death rates continue to hit record levels, but those numbers are also rising in Nova Scotia, where it’s estimated 96 people died from drug poisoning between January and November 2019. “So what the MySafe project does is it gives people a safe prescribed option, so they don’t need to rely on the contaminated street supply, which is causing people to overdose and die,” said Dispension Industries COO Matthew Michaelis. The MySafe machines allow patients to access prescription hydromorphone pills by scanning their hands to verify the patient and allow them to access their prescribed drugs from a tamper-proof machine. On Tuesday Dartmouth MP Darren Fisher, the parliamentary secretary to Health Minister Patty Hajdu announced the funding for the MySafe Society and its kiosk machines.
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