Massive ambulance shortages in 2020 and 2021 threatened the collapse of emergency health services and dominated the news. The story that was never told: how the ambulance crisis was likely both a cause and effect of unmitigated drug poisoning. Remember Betty Ann Williams, the Calgary woman who perished in June
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Heralding a new phase in the Alberta government's war on harm reduction and hostile takeover of municipalities, closing the city's overdose prevention site could drive 28 preventable deaths a year.
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A message from the Drug User Solidarity Committee and allies around the world.
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The rally will begin at 1:30pm MST at the war memorial in Central Memorial Park, Calgary on January 16, 2024.
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A study in a top medical journal shows overwhelming positive impacts of regulated hydromorphone prescribing for people who use opioids in BC. Will the trolls keep yelling from their caves?
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Ominously rejected by National Post Opinion, a letter from people who use supervised consumption sites in Toronto provides a direct counter to Postmedia's relentless attacks on harm reduction.
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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.
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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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Across the province, risk of death from unregulated drug poisoning among people experiencing houselessness is skyrocketing.
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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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A collective letter to Substack leadership
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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.