Getting To Tomorrow – Seven Actions to End the Unregulated Drug Crisis
New report by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Download the original here.
Articles by oceansidecat
Consultation with substance users lays out solutions to Canada’s drug crisis
B.C. communities participated in the report by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition by Tyler Harper -from Vancouver Island Free Daily. Read the Source Article A new report made in consultation with people who use drugs calls for federal decriminalization, expanded access to overdose prevention sites and several other measures designed […]
OPINION: Housing, along with the right support, a first step to tackling homelessness in Nanaimo
Keep people who are unhoused safe in housing instead of safe on the street, suggests guest columnist Those who work with people experiencing homelessness point to the ever-increasing numbers, including the increase in the numbers of youths and elderly living on our streets and the toll on first responders who […]
Homelessness is a policy failure, not a crime
From the Wellesley Institute. Read the source study here The number of people living in encampments across the province has been growing in recent years. At least 1,400 encampments were reported across Ontario in 2023. The growth demonstrates how current social and economic policy is failing more and more people. […]
More than 16,000 reach out in first year of Island’s 988 suicide crisis hotline
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health launched 988 service one year ago BY Jessica Durling and Nanaimo News Bulletin – WARNING: This article mentions suicide. More than 15,000 people have reached out to the Vancouver Island Crisis Society through contacting 988 since the service began about a year ago, the society […]
Did police ever actually support decriminalization?
No. by dustin godfrey – The Bind – Read the original source article here Dec 06, 2024 VPD displace people living in the Downtown Eastside in April 2023. Police chiefs in Canada say they no longer support decriminalization, but a longtime Vancouver drug policy analyst says we shouldn’t take them […]
Opinion | Doctors and government are clashing over this measure that saves lives. Whose side is science on?
From the Toronto Star, by By Manisha Krishnan, Contributor – Dr. Jess Wilder never thought of being a doctor as an inherently political job.B ut as she found herself confronting a dozen cops and security guards trying to stop her from opening an unsanctioned overdose prevention site outside the hospital she’s […]
Opioid Deaths Are Down, But There’s Still Work To Do
by Brian Castrucci – from Forbes Magazine “Exciting.” “Unprecedented.” “Hopeful.” “Great.” These are some of the words that have been used to describe the CDC’s announcement last month that drug overdose deaths are in decline across the United States. In the midst of an opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of […]
Memorial Christmas Tree at Oceanside Health Centre
Today the Memorial Christmas Tree was put up at the MHSU waiting area on the 2nd floor of the Oceanside Health Centre (Urgent Care). We encourage those who have lost a loved one to Substance Harms to come add their person’s name on a decoration and place on the tree […]
Letter: Overdose deaths are on us
Advocate Beverley Planes says the system has failed people who use drugs. BY MICK SWEETMAN The Discourse – Read the full source article here – Nanaimo Community Action Team coordinator Beverley Planes says the overdose death of a man in a washroom at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital’s emergency room happened because […]