Jenny McDougall, 52, says her life changed when she was prescribed methadone 12 years ago. Now, she’s founded a program that helps others get their prescriptions — a delivery service for prescribed safer supply drugs like hydromorphone tablets, as well as Opiod Agonist Therapy (OAT) or methadone.
McDougall works for the non-profit Coalition of Substance Users of the North (CSUN), one of the longest-running peer-led harm reduction organizations in northern B.C., in the small city of Quesnel in B.C.’s central Interior.
She founded the Prescription Alternatives and Peer Advocacy (PAPA) Program, delivering safer supply to those with a prescription but who struggle to make it to the pharmacy daily.
Missing a prescription pickup can
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