For over a year, the progenitor of Canada’s “safer supply” movement, Dr. Andrea Sereda, has publicly insisted that children do not access diverted safer supply drugs. Yet in a video presentation made to a group of harm-reduction activists earlier this month, which Sereda apparently believed was private, her narrative seemed quite different.

“I’m not going to stand up here and say that some kids, some adolescents, are not accessing diverted safe supply and using diverted safe supply. Kids experiment with everything, and we need to be honest to ourselves that kids probably experiment with diverted safer supply as well,” Sereda said during the annual general meeting of Moms Stop The Harm (MSTH), an advocacy group that champions radical harm-reduction policies.