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Sober living homes take “sobriety deposits.” Do clients get them back?
Pairing unjustified deposits with mass evictions of residents, transitional recovery facilities appear to be placing profit before people.
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Did drug poisonings drive the ambulance crisis?
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
Calgary Police Chief responds to religious neutrality concerns
Calgary Police and its Commission are eager to close the book on religious non-neutrality, but a revealing response to Secular Connexion by the chief suggests there is a long way to go. Guest post by Lois Edwards, board member of the Rocky Mountain Atheists
supervised consumption
Red Deer is galloping toward a cliff
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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “FREE DULF. NO MORE DYING. NO MORE DRUG WAR 2024.”
A message from the Drug User Solidarity Committee and allies around the world.
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Media Advisory: Rally and March for Safe Supply
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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Up next...'experts' debate the ethics of reducing drug poisoning deaths
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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Harm reduction activists have our trust; without their activism, we would all be left to die
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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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.
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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.
Edmonton Police
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.