Harm reduction & Safe supply
- filtermag.org Too Many Pharmacies Still Failing to Facilitate Harm Reduction
Pharmacies can have an important role in the prevention of overdose and other drug-related harms. Yet they’re frequently doing far ...
- themainlander.com Surrey Union of Drug Users Opens Pop-Up Inhalation Tent in Whalley
Surrey Union of Drug Users is requesting that the province ensure supervised inhalation services match injection service hours at minimum. Inhalation is the route of consumption behind roughly two …
- healthydebate.ca Staying ahead of the curve – fentanyl, xylazine and the growing syndemic - Healthy Debate
Xylazine and other contaminants have made their way into the illicit drug supply, complicating overdose response. We cannot afford to wait.
- www.theglobeandmail.com Poilievre says Conservatives would pull funding from supervised drug-consumption sites
The Conservative Leader said he would pull funding from drug-consumption sites and direct funding to addiction recovery programs
The conservatives understand evidence based medicine saves lives, they just don't care.
- www.csmonitor.com ‘Our children would not be dead.’ Why these moms are advocating for safe drugs.
What’s the best way to prevent overdose deaths amid a crisis of toxic opioids? In British Columbia, mothers who have lost children are advocating for a safe and regulated supply of drugs. The public does not agree. Part 2 of a series.
- www.nytimes.com Bold Experiment or Safety Risk? Canada Is Divided on How to Stop Drug Deaths.
British Columbia’s partial retreat from an experiment to decriminalize drug possession reveals a political shift in Canada over combating the opioid crisis.
- drugdatadecoded.ca Why is Vincent Lam distorting drug deaths?
The author and addiction physician continues disguising reactionary talking points as medical fact through Globe and Mail op-eds. In his latest, he misrepresents death rates in Timmins, belittles harm reduction and appears to cozy up to Poilievre's abstinence-focused drug strategy. In his latest ...
- www.theglobeandmail.com Opinion: I’ve been caring for people with opioid addiction for more than a decade. Here are the lessons I’ve learned
If we want to address the opioid crisis, we need a societal approach to addiction
- www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com How I changed my perspective on the drug poisoning crisis
There was no drug poisoning crisis in the ’60s, writes Dr. Thomas Piggott.
- www.theguardian.com 2,100 deaths in 10 years: how fentanyl is devastating Los Angeles’ unhoused community
A Guardian analysis of autopsy records reveals record-high overdoses in 2023. Harm reduction advocates are fighting to save lives on the streets
- www.readthemaple.com Minor Drug Seizures By Vancouver Police Increased After ‘Decriminalization,’ Data Indicates
Data indicates that seizures of drugs in quantities at or below 2.5 grams increased by 34 per cent.
- lfpress.com Conservatives, London doctor spar over safe supply comments
The Conservatives and London doctor Andrea Sereda are taking shots at each other over her support of safer opioid supply
- healthydebate.ca Involuntary drug treatment: ‘Compassionate intervention’ or policy dead end? - Healthy Debate
Involuntary treatment for substance use is being proposed in provinces across the country. But do programs like this work?
- filtermag.org The Deep Ties Between the US Drug War and Israeli Forces
Overdose prevention researchers like me are familiar with the harms caused by the expansion of policing and surveillance. A steady ...
- stoutonia.com Narcan Training: Harm Reduction In Music Festivals
Lollapalooza, Chicago Illinois As the summer approaches, many students are planning on attending music festivals on their break. Music festivals bring people together and are filled with excitement…
- drugdatadecoded.ca Think like a recovery capitalist: involuntary abstinence in the Emerald City
How a group of fundamentalists are constructing a great wooden horse standing tall on carcerality, profiteering and propaganda to deliver Compassion unto the people. The Emerald City is, on the surface, a beautiful place built from bounties buried deep in the Earth's crust, where most everyone be...
- www.marijuanamoment.net California Bill To Legalize Psychedelic Services Get Amendments Ahead Of Expected Committee Vote Next Month - Marijuana Moment
A bipartisan bill to legalize psychedelic service centers in California has been amended in a number of different ways as supporters prepare for an expected committee hearing next month. The “Regulated Therapeutic Access to Psychedelics Act”—which would allow adults 21 and older could access psilocy...
- www.naloxoneforall.org NEXT Naloxone
Next Naloxone is an online and mail-based naloxone training and distribution platform. Next Naloxone is a project of Next Harm Reduction.
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Ontario's top doctor calls for decriminalization, limits on legal substances
Ontario's top doctor is calling on the province to decriminalize possession of unregulated drugs for personal use and make available safer supply, as well explore raising the legal drinking age from 19 to 21.
- www.acsh.org Idaho Slides Backwards, Prioritizing Abstinence Over Preserving Life
Harm reduction strategies have been used for decades in many developed countries to reduce diseases and overdoses from using drugs obtained on the black market. It is a major reason why those countries have lower drug-related illness and fatality rates than the US. In recent years, many state and lo...
- bc.ctvnews.ca Audit finds 2 B.C. toxic drug harm-reduction programs weren't effectively implemented
An audit of two harm-reduction programs meant to reduce toxic drug-related deaths in B.C. found the initiatives 'weren't effectively implemented.'
- www.castanet.net Street-level drug dealer says BC's safe-supply issue is being 'weaponized' - Kelowna News
A BC street-level drug dealer weighs in on the provinces safer-supply efforts. Says recent rhetoric is 'weaponizing' the issue.
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What Does Harm Reduction Mean to You?
> We see the phrase "harm reduction" everywhere these days: in the media, on billboards, on Google. I think we can all agree that the goal of harm reduction is to save lives. But what does it really mean and how do we practice it? Let's ask some people on the front lines.
- healthsciences.arizona.edu Managing substance use disorders with ‘empathy and love’ | The University of Arizona Health Sciences
History, politics and morals converge in the field of harm reduction, which researchers say is about much more than telling people how to safely use drugs.
- www.timescolonist.com Les Leyne: Is safe-supply diversion 'widespread'? Depends how you define it
Police working the drug beat at street level in at least two communities say it is happening to some degree
- www.nysun.com Growing Threat of Flesh-Rotting ‘Tranq’ Drug Weighs on States, Lawmakers Across Country
‘The rest of the country has a lot of catching up to do,’ a treatment provider who has been caring for xylazine patients at Philadelphia tells the Sun.
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High number of drug-related deaths reported for first 2 months of 2024 in Sask.
> Seventy-four people are suspected to have died after consuming drugs in the first 60 days of 2024, according to the latest update from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service.
> Almost all the deaths, 69, reported in January and February are listed as suspected overdoses so the numbers could change once the cases are concluded. Five are confirmed.
> The high death toll is grim but not surprising, said Kayla DeMong, the executive director of Prairie Harm Reduction (PHR) in Saskatoon. She said the province's approach to drug use isn't helping prevent the numbers from rising.
- www.thetyee.ca BC’s Low Autopsy Rate Is ‘Extremely Concerning,’ Says MLA | The Tyee
Opposition and advocate say few autopsies casts doubt on drug death statistics.
- www.rollingstone.com Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War
A radical three-year experiment in drug decriminalization is poised to end in the Pacific Northwest.
- www.inquirer.com Harm reduction advocates protest Philly City Council and Mayor Parker
The demonstration was led by Savage Sisters, a harm reduction group that recently lost its lease on Kensington Avenue following an intervention from City Hall.
- policyoptions.irpp.org Substance use is a huge cost for the health-care system. Bold solutions are helping
Substance use added $13 billion to health-care costs in 2020, further stressing the system. Several bold ideas are showing how this can be reduced.
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OPEN LETTER: Supervised Consumption Services site closures due to lack of funding from Ministry of Health - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
drugpolicy.ca OPEN LETTER: Supervised Consumption Services site closures due to lack of funding from Ministry of Health - Canadian Drug Policy CoalitionMarch 4 2024 The Honourable Sylvia Jones Ministry of Health [email protected] | [email protected] 777 Bay Street, 5th Floor Toronto, ON M7A 2J3 The Honourable Michael Tibollo Ministry of Health [email protected] | [email protected] 7 Queen’s...