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April, May and June will likely rank among the five highest mortality counts for unregulated drug toxicity and quarterly deaths could exceed the previous high by 15%.
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A year ago, discussions stalled on new overdose prevention sites at Calgary Drop-In and Alpha House. As drug poisoning resumes its upward spiral across Alberta, Calgary shelters are being hit hardest.
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Drug poisoning deaths continue dropping in BC, following a trend since decriminalization. Meanwhile, zero youth deaths occurred from hydromorphone alone between 2017 and 2022.
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On June 12, Last Door Recovery Society issued a statement in response to the charges laid against a longtime employee or contractor at the facility. To many, it felt like gaslighting.
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The abstinence-only recovery centre that harboured an alleged abuser for a decade has an office in Calgary, a lucrative contract with the UCP and local nonprofit sponsors. Alberta should cut ties.
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There won't be any silver linings for those unable to access regulated supply, supervised consumption or appropriate housing options under the new UCP government.
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We won't get updated mortality counts before the election, but EMS and supervised consumption data tell us the situation is bad as ever.
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Framing drug toxicity as a tool of land occupation can guide settlers to reposition their grief from individual tragedies to collateral damage of genocidal policy.
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Conflicts of interest, prison guards and police stand between health care providers and their patients in Alberta's Virtual Opioid Dependency Program.
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Many credit the premier's chief of staff as the architect of the "Alberta Model," but who's the engine? Let's have a look at friends of the UCP from here to California.
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Police are connecting people in detainment with opioid agonist treatments. How does this interfere with prescriber-patient relationships?