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Fifty ways to grill the UCP on the Alberta Drug Model
In June 2022, over 30 organizations demanded fifty evaluation metrics on the UCP's abstinence-based framework. We can begin to answer nine, no thanks to the UCP.
Euan Thomson
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The Alberta Drug Model is a Christian institution: Part 3
Tough love, paternalism and cultural erasure in Alberta's 'recovery-oriented system of care.'
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The Alberta Drug Model is a Christian institution: Part 2
The drug supply is shifting so rapidly, how could old-school detox and treatment methods possibly keep up?
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The Alberta Drug Model is a Christian institution: Part 1
At least half of long-term addiction care beds are Christian and almost all are 12-Step abstinence-based. Part 1 of a series on Alberta addiction services.
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Edmonton's compassionate underbelly
Boyle Street outreach workers were prohibited from distributing supplies to unhoused people in train stations. Others are taking up the slack.
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Ophelia Black v. the UCP
Irony in the court!
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UCP plan forced abstinence for unhoused people
Is it still dog-whistling after three UCP officials and Chief Dale McFee have said it in human-speak?
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Alberta Recovery Conference and the far-right
Protesting the conference drew the weirdos out of the woodwork.
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The Alberta Model: It's a Grift
A presentation on Alberta drug policy for a packed Metro Cinema in Edmonton on February 16.
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Abandoned by the Alberta Model - For Immediate Release
Press Release for the protest planned outside the Alberta Recovery Conference.
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Why are we protesting the Alberta Recovery Conference?
The status quo in drug policy relies on institutionalization of junk science that rejects harm reduction. This institution gathers in Calgary on February 21-22.
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Marshall Smith's propaganda rampage
CBC Calgary provides lovely background music to unending UCP overtures to abstinence-based treatment. But can violins clash with critical analysis?