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Canada does not have anywhere close to as big of “a drug problem” as the United States and there’s absolutely no evidence Canada supplies a significant amount of fentanyl to the US. Americans drive both fentanyl supply and fentanyl demand in the US, and this admin has avoided addressing those things

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

BOOOO urns

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aaaand there goes samhsa (the substance abuse & mental health service administration) fucking bleak

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

We will never forget this, SAMHSA. Fascists cannot be trusted, least of all with the lives of vulnerable people.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts." Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them. This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD

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SCOOP Premier Smith's former chief of staff Marshall Smith, Deputy Premier Mike Ellis, CPS Chief Neufeld & others implicated in cover-up of serious injuries inflicted by Calgary Police on protesters at UCalgary on May 9, 2024. @readtheorchard.org reports: www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

so even though everyone gets that it's not about fentanyl, we're keeping the fentanyl czar and doing drug war theatre and never having a serious discussion about drug policy, right? and we're going to blame drug users for economic impacts of tariffs, right? yeah www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The provncially-funded supervised consumption site in my neighborhood just closed down two days ago. The Ford government shut them down. Last year, they revserved close to 800 overdoses. As a result, we'll see hundreds of overdoses taking place in public over the next year.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

You can tell antivaxxers don’t actually care about children because a child died and these sickos are using it as an excuse to share juice recipes and promote their supplements. There’s more aluminum in a cup of carrot juice than in the two-dose MMR series. And carrot juice doesn’t prevent measles.

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

Edmonton has returned to near-record EMS dispatches for opioid poisoning. It's an unmitigated massacre of unhoused people. Police allied w/ "downtown business recovery" & developers in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods, plus proponents of Alberta Model bear responsibility. Again: it's a massacre.

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Powerful and unequivocal statement from Canadian Public Health Association on Alberta's proposed involuntary treatment / forced abstinence legislation. www.cpha.ca/alberta-invo...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Are you or your group working on campaigns or strategies to interrupt criminalization, policing, and state violence, and want thought partnership or support? Reach out to our Resisting Criminalization Help Desk, staffed by our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social: bit.ly/ResistingCri...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Nurses deserve safe workplaces. Patients deserve dignity. How can we achieve both? This article explores harm reduction strategies like ventilated rooms, safe use spaces, and evidence-based education. Read more: https://bit.ly/3CUH825 #HarmReduction #NurseLife

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Excellent breakdown by @breachmedia.ca on how people who stand to profit professionally, monetarily and politically are pushing for involuntary treatment in Alberta and BC. Involuntary treatment is a distraction for gov's failure to address poverty, homelessness. breachmedia.ca/media-politi...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

"This analysis will shed light on the risks for nurses associated with fentanyl exposure, the harms of perpetuating exposure misinformation, and viable solutions that promote the safety of everyone, including people who use drugs."

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

📣‼️New study ⤵️ and great writeup! "We believe that evidence must drive policy, not fear and misinformation. We believe that both worker safety & upholding the rights and dignity of people who use drugs are achievable without resorting to punitive policymaking."

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"When moral panic leads to reactive policy-making, we must use evidence and expertise to fight back." #bcpoli

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“We believe that both worker safety and upholding the rights and dignity of people who use drugs are achievable without resorting to punitive policymaking. We support inhalation overdose prevention services in all hospital settings.”

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“There are plenty of observable, ongoing safety risks that should be focused on, including staffing shortages, mandatory overtime, and high turnover rates; shifting focus from drug use to these working conditions is what will create real solutions and improve working conditions for nurses.” #bcpoli

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‼️ New ‼️ Evaluating the risk for nurses of fentanyl exposure and the harms of perpetuating exposure misinformation. From Serena Eagland, @pattywilson.bsky.social and me! www.canadian-nurse.com/blogs/cn-con...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

CBC had the choice of kissing one ass cheek or the other and opted to go right down the middle

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

There’s no evidence to support the idea that fentanyl is being intentionally marketed to kids. False warnings often create unnecessary fear and stigma. Come on! @malakabas.bsky.social Police warn about fentanyl-laced tablets that could appeal to kids www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

“One of the purposeful consequences of overwhelm is that we see ourselves as the people politics happens to as opposed to being active participants in doing politics or shaping our political reality.“

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

“It feels like moral panic,” Streukens said. “There’s this stigmatizing focus on people who use drugs as if they’re inherently untrustworthy. Stigma fuels isolation and harm, and I worry when we build stigma into policy, it will not reduce harm.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Legacy media you are failing us big time These actions are all illegal and you need to label them as such

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing says “everything is fine” like stopping by your local grocery store to buy a sandwich and having to respond to two separate medical emergencies (overdose + hypoglycemic episode). Really feels like we are just living in a mass casualty situation.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

remember during the last Ontario election campaign when The Bravest Bee in Canadian Histing flew into Doug Ford's mouth and down his throat causing Ford to choke and cry that was awesome bring that energy Ontario be that bee

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

“There was a total of 49,105 apparent opioid toxicity deaths reported between January 2016 and June 2024” We have well surpassed 50,000 drug poisoning deaths in Canada since 2016. health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-re...

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NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls out Premier Smith's gaslighting. #ableg #abpoli

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

👏 @drugdatadecoded.ca + @zoedodd.bsky.social 👏 “While they preach the values of treatment and rehabilitation for drug users, they abandon those seeking help—leaving them with long wait times, unregulated facilities, and predatory private operators eager to cash in.” breachmedia.ca/media-politi...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

“These examples show that creating support for attitudes and behaviors based on science requires more than just presenting facts. It requires creating meaningful dialogue between skeptical groups and scientific messengers.”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The UCP's forced abstinence legislation (Compassionate Intervention Act) is intended to be modeled after Alberta's forced abstinence legislation for youth (PChAD Act). They didn't mention a statistic that should give everyone serious pause: 41% of youth forced through PChAD are Indigenous. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

>90% of unvaccinated individuals who come into contact with a measles-infected person will contract measles. The recommended 2-dose MMR vaccine is 99% effective in preventing measles infection.

submitted 22 days ago • 53 comments

get this what if we did gulags but for people who use drugs

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

The other scandal is that for-profit surgical delivery does not reduce wait times over the long-term, increase system capacity or provide cost-efficient care It simply diverts the fixed pool of specialized personnel into investor-owned facilities, increases waits, all at ++cost to taxpayers #ableg

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

the other day @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social said that at least 600 people are sleeping outside every night in Vancouver. $5M would top-up the $500/mth shelter portion of social assistance to market rent for each person for the rest of the year

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Because Marshall Smith is named in the AHS procurement allegations, any investigation must extend to hundreds of millions in questionable expenditures at Mental Health & Addiction. This scandal could be government-wide.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

The gap between First Nations and non-First Nations life expectancy in Alberta is 19 years, and wider now than any other point on record. This is a provincial and national emergency. #ableg www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments