What a devastating story.

“The Man Who Opened a Store Selling Heroin and Cocaine Has Died From an Overdose”

“Martin had hoped to launch a constitutional challenge, arguing that the laws against giving people a safe supply of drugs is resulting in poisoning deaths in contravention of section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

#SafeSupply now

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7b7p3/jerry-martin-man-opened-cocaine-heroin-dead

@T3Z wenn man dann noch einen Weg findet, den Konsumenten Zugang zu einem #SafeSupply ohne Streckmittel, Verunreinigungen etc. zu geben, wäre den meisten kritischen Fällen bereits geholfen.

Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass eine Vielzahl schlechter Erfahrungen die Folge der Verbotspolitik ist, die Menschen isoliert, Aufklärung, Jugendschutz und v.a. niedrigschwellige Hilfsangeboten durch eine Bedrohung mit dem Strafrecht verhindert.

Congratulations #VicCoolAid

'This has absolutely saved lives': Safe-supply drug dispensing machine in Victoria hailed a success

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/this-has-absolutely-saved-lives-safe-supply-drug-dispensing-machine-in-victoria-hailed-a-success-1.6235167

#PublicHealth #Addiction #SafeSupply #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Summary of AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER program available here including links to other written materials, recordings of online presentations, etc. SAFER has been providing prescribed #SafeSupply for close to 2.5 years & is not only preventing death but improving quality of life.

https://www.catie.ca/programming-connection/victoria-safer-initiative

#CdnHealth #CdnPoli #CanHealth #CanPoli #YYJPoli #OverdoseCrisis #DrugPolicy #ToxicDrugPolicy #Decriminalize #Legalize #HarmReduction

Summary of AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER program available here including links to other written materials, recordings of online presentations, etc. SAFER has been providing prescribed #SafeSupply for close to 2.5 years & is not only preventing death but improving quality of life.

https://www.catie.ca/programming-connection/victoria-safer-initiative

#CdnHealth #CdnPoli #YYJ #YYJPoli #OverdoseCrisis #DrugPolicy #ToxicDrugPolicy #Decriminalize #Legalize #HarmReduction

👏Upcoming panel👏

Prescribed fentanyl #SafeSupply: Team Perspectives

Hear perspectives and lessons learned from an interdisciplinary team working in prescribed safer supply.

https://t.co/zMatga1Jwd

This is a great offering from the National #SafeSupply Community of Practice and AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER Knowledge Translation & Exchange team. They will discuss early learnings from implementing prescribed #fentanyl as a safer supply option in #YYJ.

All NSS-CoP webinars are recorded & posted if you cannot attend live on Tues Jan 24 @ 1300 EST.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #CanPoli #CanHealth
@NurseRanger

https://www.nss-aps.ca/event/prescribed-fentanyl

This is a great offering from the National #SafeSupply Community of Practice and AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER Knowledge Translation & Exchange team. They will discuss early learnings from implementing prescribed #fentanyl as a safer supply option in #YYJ.

All NSS-CoP webinars are recorded & posted if you cannot attend live on Tues Jan 24 @ 1300 EST.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #CanPoli #CanHealth

https://www.nss-aps.ca/event/prescribed-fentanyl

@jeremycaradonna Hopefully there will be a reduction in police interactions though that's not a given. Unless there's also a significant increase in accessibility to a range of #SafeSupply options that meets dosage/tolerance needs & modes of consumption, this will not stem the tide of deaths. The SAFER program run by AVI still does not have confirmed funding past March 31 despite important successes over the past 2+ years. Health Canada needs to renew funding. MP Collins aware.

#Introduction
I just noticed one day that there were few cartoons that represented the world experienced by marginalized communities. Yes some draw about us, but we also deserves drawings by us. So, here I am.

I am a trans, gay, disabled, Asian settler with a non-English name and an accent.

Some of my interests:
#Asian #APIFedi #AAPIFedi #AsianAndPacificIslanders #POC #BIPOC #Gay #Queer #Disabled #EditorialCartoon #Trans #TransIsBeautiful #LandBack #BLM #HarmReduction #SafeSupply #Housing4All

"We are not the victims of one particular criminal offence, but rather of a series of interlocking and deeply inadequate health services, systems and policies that failed Sophie repeatedly."

#HarmReduction #SafeSupply #Overdose #Legalize #Decriminalize

Op-Ed: "Our family member died of a fentanyl overdose. We don’t think the man who supplied the drugs should go to prison"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-our-daughter-died-of-a-fentanyl-overdose-we-dont-think-the-man-who/

"We are not the victims of one particular criminal offence, but rather of a series of interlocking and deeply inadequate health services, systems and policies that failed Sophie repeatedly."

#HarmReduction #SafeSupply #Overdose #Legalize #Decriminalize

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-our-daughter-died-of-a-fentanyl-overdose-we-dont-think-the-man-who/

RT @KmarkovCTV
New, from me. What is really behind the declining number of drug-poisoning deaths in Alberta? I spent the last week trying to answer this question.
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/is-alberta-s-approach-to-addiction-truly-behind-the-declining-number-of-drug-poisoning-deaths-1.6171969
#alberta #ab #yyc #yeg #edmonton #calgary #abpoli #druguse #scs #safesupply #opioids #overdose #fentanyl

#HarmReduction
#SafeSupply
#StopTheSweeps
#Housing4All
#TransIsBeautiful
#AntiRacism
#AntiOppression
#Healing
#TraumaInformed
#Accessibility
#Inclusion
#Disability
#Disabled
#FuckWhiteSupremacy

#introduction #introductions

Critical read as we grapple w toxic policy, drug war capitalism & medical system barriers.

"...the harms of the current approach reach far & deep & that if people are forced to pick between unbearable pain & breaking the law, breaking the law is a reasonable option."

#Legalize #SafeSupply #HarmReduction

https://t.co/XFCrn5quab

This week on Canadian Tire Fire, fighting against wage-theft and rent-hikes in #Toronto, repression and resistance continues on Wet'suwet'en territory; group creates police misconduct database; #DrugCrisis continues as #SafeSupply activists continue to rally. https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-38/

So wow, at last: B.C. to offer Canada's first, permanent safe drug supply in response to overdose crisis

https://vancouversun.com/health/b-c-to-offer-canadas-first-safe-drug-supply-in-response-to-overdose-crisis

#Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada #drugs #opiod #fentanyl #SafeSupply