Global News BC: Parents, politicians call for care, compassion on 7th anniversary of B.C. overdose crisis https://globalnews.ca/news/9626011/bc-overdose-crisis-7th-anniversary-richmond/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCoverdosecrisisanniversary #mentalhealthandaddictions #bctoxicdrugcrisis #BCoverdosecrisis #Toxicdrugdeaths #toxicdrugsupply #OpioidCrisis #Drugusers #Fentanyl #Naloxone #Health
#bcoverdosecrisisanniversary #MentalHealthandAddictions #BCtoxicdrugcrisis #BCoverdosecrisis #Toxicdrugdeaths #toxicdrugsupply #OpioidCrisis #drugusers #fentanyl #naloxone #health #globalnews #BritishColumbia #news
🎁 #FreeRead | JeneenInterlandi @ #NYTimes spent a year following #OnPoint (#NYC), a two year-old #outreach program aimed to help #drugusers. Some of the #nonprofit's methods are "#controversial" but are working.
This deep-dive #editorial takes an eyes-wide-open look at failed #antidrug #policies, the #toughlove #Rx many/most Americans want administered to substance abusers, and OnPoint's "radical" (practical) solutions to saving lives and #taxpayer #dollars in #NY.
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After #reading this piece a couple times, I wondered: "Do "Americans" (people who #vote and #politicians) truly *want to solve the addiction, un/de-housed and incarceration epidemics in the US?" Nope. I don't think so.
📷 Donavon Smallwood
#newyork #drug #addiction #homeless #outreach #publichealth #crisis #epidemic #criminalization
#freeread #nytimes #onpoint #nyc #outreach #drugusers #nonprofit #controversial #editorial #antidrug #policies #toughlove #rx #taxpayer #dollars #ny #reading #Vote #politicians #NewYork #drug #addiction #homeless #publichealth #crisis #epidemic #criminalization
~LET'S TALK ABOUT FENTANYL ~
You can not die from touching, looking, or being near it. Fentanyl is only dangerous if inhaled or ingested.
*Most street drugs have fentanyl in them now*
No one is handing it out for free. Drug dealing is a business
It is NOT in your weed.
no one is sprinkling fentanyl onto your blunts, and even if they did it burns up before you could smoke it.
Please carry naloxone. Start slow. Never use alone if you can help it.
#harmreduction #drugusers #harmreductionists #harmreduxsaveslives
#party
#harmreduction #drugusers #harmreductionists #harmreduxsaveslives #party
Two of my proudest #achievements were actually relatively small.
I worked with the students union at a local university to give student #drugusers free access to drug testing kits. This allowed them to test the content and purity of drugs they had bought and intended to take.
The other is the drug market profile I created that same year, looking at the diversion of prescription drugs into clandestine markets.
Wednesday before whatchamacallit is one of the heaviest drinking/drug using days of the year. So Tuesday 4-5:30PM EST, check out a narcan training!
#harmreduction #drugusers #narcan #naloxone #BlackMastodon #OverdoseAwareness #overdose
#overdose #overdoseawareness #BlackMastodon #naloxone #narcan #drugusers #harmreduction
#Canada mulls giving #drugusers "safe supply" of illicit substances #DrugAbuse #Addiction
https://newstarget.com/2022-03-25-canada-to-give-users-safe-supply-drugs.html
#Addiction #drugabuse #drugusers #canada
#Canada mulls giving #drugusers "safe supply" of illicit substances #DrugAbuse #Addiction
https://newstarget.com/2022-03-25-canada-to-give-users-safe-supply-drugs.html
#Addiction #drugabuse #drugusers #canada
#DOJ evaluating #safeinjectionsites for #drugusers #addiction #overdose
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-10-doj-mulls-safe-injection-sites-for-users.html
#overdose #Addiction #drugusers #safeinjectionsites #doj