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Political interference in the practice of medicine is bad, actually. youtube.com/clip/Ugkxu2w...

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The opposite of Harm Reduction is harm. youtube.com/clip/Ugkxgzm...

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youtube.com/clip/Ugkx25r... Dr. Jess Wilder lays it out on the 9th anniversary of the declaration of the Public Health Emergency.

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“As you probably know...many of my patients are unhoused here in our community,” Wilder said. “We are here protesting ... the closure of our two remaining overnight shelters that provide emergency and shelter access beds for people who are unhoused.” www.chly.ca/local-news/2...

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Dear Vancouver, BC, and Canada, We can't police our way out of a mental health crisis occurring simultaneous with an engineered drawdown of services and a cultural collapse of community. #vanpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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¡Prepárate para tres poderosas sesiones plenarias en #HR25Bogotá! Escucharás las más grandes e innovadores ideas provenientes de líderes en reducción de daños y movimientos interseccionales para la justicia.

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Injunction to halt the UCP's closure of the Red Deer overdose prevention site has been denied, the same day a warning went out about 12 ODs in 15 hours near the former site. As @ehyshka.bsky.social has said, an OPS is like the emergency room of the toxic drug crisis, and now it's just ~gone~

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“Offers.” So keen are they to double down on the criminalization of people who use drugs, they can’t even wait for renovations! This is just administrative segregation in prison, i.e. solitary confinement. The casual depravity boggles the mind. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/n...

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ICYMI This week the program featured a conversation with Dr. Kelsey Roden of @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social at a pop-up overdose prevention site in Victoria. Listen: vancouverislandmentalhealthsociety.org/podcast/vict... @vimhs.bsky.social

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"The doctors said in a statement they will continue to hold the government to account for “its total failure to listen to the experts on the front lines of this continuing crisis” and its “abdication of moral responsibility” for the 225, 000 British Columbians who use unregulated drugs."

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all of the different nightmares we are embroiled in are licensed by the despicable and unacceptable idea that there are classes of people who aren’t entitled to a life of dignity and autonomy. there is simply no such category!

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An excellent summary of where things stand @josieosborne.bsky.social

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Saskatchewan seems to think the only way to prevent OD deaths is to kill every single person who uses drugs. Murderous buffoons. fentanyl-meth-and-hypodermic-needles-as-street-weapons-with-new-legislation/

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thetyee.ca/News/2025/04... Bottom line: they could all be much better. But some more than others.

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Forced “treatment” is incarceration of people who have not been convicted of a crime for the benefit of private recovery businesses making money from government contracts. Like other private detainment situations, the people are the commodity from which they make money. It is not effective or care.

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"[I]nvoluntary treatment causes trauma, creates distrust of the health care system and targets disadvantaged people." "[I]t looks like it's a law and order program to me that's disguised in sheep's clothing." #Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Incarceration

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We all use drugs - we have been duped into thinking: Substances that are legal to possess are not drugs and they are somehow less harmful than prohibited substances; that drug taking is deviant, different & dangerous. #Misinformed #Misled #Misguided #Mistaken

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Like safer supply? Like widely-available overdose prevention services? Like enforcing “minimum service standards” for residential treatment?

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“Dead People Don’t Recover.” A unicorn told us so. #bcpoli

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“I don’t pretend to be a politician. I would appreciate it if politicians don’t pretend to be medical experts,” [Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk] said, adding there are mountains of studies showing supervised consumption sites save lives and ultimately lead to safer communities.

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Vancouver! Next Wed (April 16) I have the great privilege of sitting down w/ @garthmullins.bsky.social at @writersfest.bc.ca (Vancouver Public Library) to talk about his book, Crackdown, which is as compelling as his podcast of the same name. Hope you'll join us: writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite...

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Imagine the absurdity if we refused to allow harm reduction...

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The family that harm reductions together…

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www.oakbaynews.com/local-news/t...

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“Give me some doggone harm reduction!”

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It is a beautiful day to provide vital health care services. #harmreduction

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The safest communities invest in: ✅ Addiction services ✅ Housing ✅ Support Services ✅ Jobs ✅ Education When people have stability and support, they can better manage their needs, positively participate in society, and build healthier communities.

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Come down tomorrow to RJH in Victoria or NRGH in Nanaimo to join Doctors for Safer Drug Policy in our dual pop-up OPS. Victoria site hours: 10am-6pm Nanaimo site hours: 10am-2pm Harm reduction saves lives. And saving lives is not controversial.

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Comment: We need to monitor all aspects of the drug emergency via @timescolonist.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

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More of our very own Dr Jill Wiwcharuk at Peers Victoria's #toxicdrugcrisis speaker series, speaking to the basic pain we all feel about the political interference in our little area of health care. #bcpoli #harmreduction

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I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com about my experience photographing the toxic drug supply crisis and the people I love who continue to fight for evidence-based solutions. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Our very own Dr Jill Wiwcharuk at Peers Victoria's #toxicdrugcrisis speaker series, telling the bare truth about the inhumanity our patients face, and the bare minimum that could be done to make life somewhat more bearable. #bcpoli #harmreduction

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VIctoria, BC - Legislature - Join @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social along with @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social and others April 14th, 2016 .. it's been 9 YEARS How long should an emergency last before real action happens? Join us April 14, 2025 at the Victoria BC Legislature 11:30am - Speakers at 12:15pm

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Then he shall have more corpses.

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We are looking forward to this upcoming event from @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social See you all there??? 😄 #nanaimo #drugsky #harmreduction #careisnotforced

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Great presentation from @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social Dr Jill Wiwcharuk at Peers Victoria's #toxicdrugcrisis speaker series. Why ARE we allowing police, politicians & rabid media pundits to call the shots on essential health care for people? youtu.be/8tmlUApT71U

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