While politicians beat on about tariffs and tax cuts, I remember that there are people living their lives and helping others.
This photo essay shows their humanity, which they've had to fight for against indifference and apathy, while their loved ones suffer and die.
A #BCConservative candidate has gone viral with this video of her getting a 'snorting kit' from a vending machine outside the Emergency Room of the Nanaimo Hospital.
My question to her is:
Would she rather people get a snorting kit and tips from a biker-gang drug pusher?
People are dying and getting diseases from dirty pipes and stuff. This is an extremely cheap way of making sure people don't die... which is what Hospitals do.
Doug Ford’s legacy will be social murder #DougFord #Ontario #onpoli #drugcrisis #harmreduction #safeconsumption
https://ricochet.media/justice/healthcare/doug-fords-legacy-will-be-social-murder/
B.C. politicians watch closely as Ontario changes harm reduction strategy
As new regulations in Ontario close supervised drug consumption site, advocates in B.C. say closing any facilities would push drug use further to the fringes, endangering lives.
#globalnews #Health #Politics #drugconsumptionsites #DrugCrisis
https://globalnews.ca/news/10710038/bc-ontario-harm-reduction-strategy-drug-use/
B.C. politicians watch closely as Ontario changes harm reduction strategy
As new regulations in Ontario close supervised drug consumption site, advocates in B.C. say closing any facilities would push drug use further to the fringes, endangering lives.
#globalnews #Health #Politics #drugconsumptionsites #DrugCrisis
https://globalnews.ca/news/10710038/bc-ontario-harm-reduction-strategy-drug-use/
When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.
Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”
The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.
Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.
"The only solution is not to use hard drugs," he said." Wow! #PierrePoilievre has provided the solution to drug use! He has no idea how #harmreduction works or about #addiction. Making him PM would take #drugcrisis to a new level #healthcare #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/poilievre-shut-down-montreal-supervised-drug-inhalation-site-1.7261989
Partial truths from politicians won’t fix the toxic drug crisis #opioids #drugcrisis #harmreduction #addiction #Canada #cdnpoli #decriminalization https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/06/19/partial-truths-from-politicians-wont-fix-the-toxic-drug-crisis/425810/
Battle over B.C. drug policy flares up over contentious recovery symposium
Thursday was the first day of the inaugural Prosper symposium, organized by the U.S.-based Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions.
#globalnews #Politics #BCpolitics #DrugCrisis #Overdose
https://globalnews.ca/news/10534591/bc-drug-policy-recovery-symposium/
Battle over B.C. drug policy flares up over contentious recovery symposium
Thursday was the first day of the inaugural Prosper symposium, organized by the U.S.-based Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions.
#globalnews #Politics #BCpolitics #DrugCrisis #Overdose
https://globalnews.ca/news/10534591/bc-drug-policy-recovery-symposium/
Alberta Chooses Ideology over Evidence with Its Recovery War Room #drugcrisis #Alberta #addictions #harmreduction #abpoli https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/04/10/Alberta-UCP-Drug-Crisis-Recovery-War-Room-Ideology-Over-Evidence/?utm_source=national&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110424
Very glad to see this Class Action approved and moving ahead. Not only is it right and fair for the people who got the financial rug pulled out from under them (causing some to die by suicide) but it makes it clear just how many people were helped by UBI! It was working!!! People were getting out of the hole our current systems create!
#UBI #CanPoli #GLBI #CdnPoli #ONPoli #Ford #Poverty #DrugCrisis #HousingCrisis
cc: @scottsantens
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-basic-income-pilot-class-action-1.7149814
NEW: A drug crackdown in the Tenderloin that was supposed to encourage people into treatment focused heavily on Latinx people, yet jails offered English programs only. Service providers for Latinx inmates demanded access to the jails at last week's Sheriff’s Oversight Board meeting. This week, a Spanish recovery program was launched. But some longtime jail workers give it less than 2 weeks.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/service-providers-demand-access-to-latinx-jail-inmates/
This is not ‘overdose’ it is poisoning, call it what it is.
The solution to a poisoning crisis is safe supply.
NEW: Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled in the U.S. in recent years. 2/3rds of them had someone nearby who didn’t respond.
In this 6th and final episode of "San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis," we hear how people are learning how to help when someone is overdosing.
"I think it’s really important, especially in our school and at my age, that we should be teaching our students how this is performed." -Burton HS student Jennifer Mendoza, who participates in a program that teaches students how to recognize drug abuse and reverse overdoses.
The DOPE project & the SF Department of Public Health launched a peer-responder program for people living in permanent supportive housing.
"It feels like I’m useful, like I have a sense of purpose. I’m actually helping within the community." -Susan Lefever, SRO resident.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/sf-students-sro-residents-train-to-reverse-drug-overdoses/
‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids https://news.yahoo.com/monster-super-meth-other-drugs-124044157.html
The non-opioid drugs include those relatively new to the street, such as the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which can char human flesh, anti-anxiety medications including Valium and Klonopin and older recreational stimulants such as cocaine and meth. Dealers sell these drugs, plus counterfeit Percocet and Xanax pills, often mixed with fentanyl.#DrugAbuse #DrugCrisis
Global News BC: Dignified focus needed for B.C. toxic drug crisis, doctor says https://globalnews.ca/news/10036898/bc-overdose-dignified-focus/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DrugCrisis #toxicdrugs #Addiction #Politics #Overdose #Health
Gerade zurück aus Vancouver: Die #housingcrisis und daran geknüpfte #drugcrisis hat dort eine drastische Qualität.
Sehr gutes Interview über die Hintergründe dazu, auch mit einem kurzen Blick auf die Residential Schools und die First Nations:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1175963.drogenpolitik-eine-krise-der-toxischen-drogen.html
@ndaktuell #vancouver #canada
Global News BC: B.C. coroner says fentanyl the main culprit as 184 people died of toxic drugs in June https://globalnews.ca/news/9842676/bc-coroner-june-drug-deaths-fentanyl/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #bctoxicdrugcrisis #BCoverdosecrisis #toxicdrugcrisis #DrugdeathsJune #OverdoseCrisis #DrugCrisis #drugdeaths #Fentanyl #Justice #Health #Social
Thanks for nothing, DEA. Fifty years later, drugs are deadlier and more abundant than ever
