Alberta model
Red Deer city council has made history as the first in Canada voting to close an overdose prevention site. Ignoring decades of research, Mayor Ken Johnston asserted this will set the groundwork for the city to become "free from addiction." People across the country should pay attention.
Alberta model
Pairing unjustified deposits with mass evictions of residents, transitional recovery facilities appear to be placing profit before people.
supervised consumption
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.
Media Criticism
Eleven 'therapeutic communities' are planned, many situated in First Nations, but possibilities of forced abstinence and forced labour evoke a horrific history.
Newsletter
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.
Alberta model
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.
Alberta model
CBC Calgary provides lovely background music to unending UCP overtures to abstinence-based treatment. But can violins clash with critical analysis?