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De-prescribing the right to life, liberty & security
A study on Canadian opioid de-prescribing charts the course of the crisis since 2000 and provides a stark warning against the looming elimination of safe supply programs.
Euan Thomson
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Drug Data Decoded Year 1 in Review
Drug Data Decoded launched in January 2023. Over 64 stories, it has blown the cover of key structures holding the drug poisoning crisis in place. Let's review and in 2024, let's keep going.
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Alberta drug policy is executing unhoused people
Across the province, risk of death from unregulated drug poisoning among people experiencing houselessness is skyrocketing.
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Chief McFee's unforgivable sin
Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee has been signalling mass decampment for months. A scheduled Christmas massacre woke up the city to his intentions.
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
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The Alberta government is privatizing recovery data
The government gave sole source contracts to a private addiction recovery house in BC for an app that obscures patient outcome data from the public, the health system and the government.
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Recovering from a common misconception
Yet another study showing detox and residential treatment do not reduce drug poisoning should prompt an international policy shift.
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Net-widening the war on drugs
Expanding criminalization of fentanyl by targeting its precursors will only expand the harms of an unregulated drug supply, writes the CDPC's Nick Boyce in a submission to Health Canada.
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'Moms Stop the Harm' Requests that the BC Government Investigate the Recovery Industry
In an open letter to Attorney General Niki Sharma, the network of mothers who have lost family members to drug toxicity are asking for an investigation into millions of tax dollars.
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Hippocratic Oathkeepers
With the anti-safe supply propaganda machine now firm-footed in the far-right, why is a small number of doctors feeding its printing press, National Post Opinion?
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From Palestine to the Downtown Eastside: Settler colonialism creates violence
As Canada abstains on a humanitarian truce abroad, governments in BC lean into displacing and disappearing people. Undoing settler colonial power is anti-violence.
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Letter from five members of DULF's compassion club
In response to the arrest of Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum and the raids of two homes and the DULF office, five members of DULF’s Compassion Club pilot project wish to share the following statement.