Safe supply
DULF's legal update
Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum held a press conference with their lawyers on October 15, 2024 to correct disinformation about the compassion club and provide a legal update.
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Alberta model
Recovery Capitalists 1: Mobilizing policy through allies
The upcoming Recovery Capital Conference in Calgary serves three main functions: mobilizing Alberta government policy through credible actors, repaying these actors with public funding, and recruiting for the far-right. Part 1 examines the first of these, and what happens when credibility falls short. See also: Part 2 and Part 3.
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Overdoses cut in half, reports Vancouver compassion club
Peer-reviewed study shows 49% reduction in people experiencing drug poisonings, with odds of a poisoning that requires naloxone reduced by almost two-thirds. What political dark magic is preventing the rapid rollout of non-profit, non-medicalized safe supply while Canada drowns in drug poisonings?
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Letter from five members of DULF's compassion club
In response to the arrest of Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum and the raids of two homes and the DULF office, five members of DULF’s Compassion Club pilot project wish to share the following statement.
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DULF arrests consolidate worldwide response
The arrests of the compassion club organizers are creating international blowback. How did manoeuvring by politicians and police convince them the arrests were good strategy?
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Vancouver Police arrest DULF organizers for saving lives
The arrests occurred on Wednesday, and the organizers were released without charge. Instead, VPD issued a press release in a dialect of doublespeak only police could pull off.
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Part 1 - Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply
A group of addiction doctors published a letter blasting safe supply, but their affiliations omitted commercial interests that may give a glimpse into their motivations.