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A group of physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
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đŸ’« Featuring: @4bharmredux.bsky.social Association QuĂ©bĂ©coise pour la promotion de la santĂ© des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD) @candrugpolicy.bsky.social Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy @dsdp.ca Frontline Baddies
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Interesting choice of focus when so many are desperate for voluntary mental health and addiction services.
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Fentanyl is a molecule, it does not compel people to use it and if it suddenly disappeared from the unregulated drug supply, people would still use drugs. Interdiction is a game of whack-a-mole: fix your gaze on fentanyl too long, then nitazenes arrive. stories.northernhealth.ca/news/drug-ad...
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Meant that the piece itself was a good summary. Minister could do much more, yes. Could be worse though.
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đŸ’« Featuring: @4bharmredux.bsky.social Association QuĂ©bĂ©coise pour la promotion de la santĂ© des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD) Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform @candrugpolicy.bsky.social Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy @dsdp.ca Frontline Baddies
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We’ll work on some hard numbers for you, but here’s another good starting point: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/an-introdu...
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As an amuse bouche though, we’d start here: www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj...
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It is not as if “doing nothing” is the alternative one should compare a carceral approach to.
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There are lots of studies on the outcomes of involuntary care/secure care/forced abstinence. Happy to follow-up. But the proper comparison to make is not vs. “living on the street” it is vs. robust investment in housing, treatment in the community, social services, and harm reduction.
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You got us. No such polling data exists that we know of. Just relying here on extensive conversations with a large professional network. There is, however, a petition by health professionals against involuntary care for substance use disorders, with a lot of signatures. We‘ll dig that out later.
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Especially those of us who are experts in addiction. The expansion of mental health act use is favoured by a tiny number of ideologically driven psychiatrists, who for some reasons seem to have the premier’s ear.
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It is complex, but if even an open-minded and fairly liberal city councillor has been caught up in the consent manufacturing process, that is perhaps emblematic! Let’s talk. We will reach out. In the interim, please know that the vast majority of health professionals are against this expansion.
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This is great to hear! We could have sworn you were promoting “secure care,” one the government’s preferred euphemisms for forced abstinence. As CMHA has pointed out, BC already has amongst the highest rates of mental health act use in the country. We overuse it, instead of funding services.
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Dave we need to talk then. That’s not what we’re saying.
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This is an important read from @picardonhealth.bsky.social; where he refers to the recommendations from the coroner’s inquest as “common-sense advice”, I would argue they reflect an underwhelming bare minimum. www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...
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Sidney died from a toxic, unregulated drug supply contaminated w/ unwanted and unpredictable adulterants. Her and her friends thought they were using cocaine—instead it was cocaine + fentanyl. She is a victim of our ongoing unwillingness to address the drivers of this emergency. #bcpoli
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Can we attend?!?
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Harm reduction reduces harms. Period. That’s why it’s called that. We have decades of data. There are mountains of evidence showing that it does not increase drug harms (a pure fallacy) & does not increase drug use. Most of the data actually shows harm reduction interventions LOWER rates of drug use