Experts are looking at changes to the drug supply and drug use for clues to why drug deaths in B.C. are dropping. By Glenda Luymes, Vancouver Sun Deaths related to drug overdoses have declined nine per cent in B.C. over the past year. But experts says it’s unclear whether the […]
This month, December’s meeting, Erica Williamson. Island Health, Discovery Youth & Family Substance Use Services will talk about the services they offer. Read more about their organization and services here Join this month’s Zoom Meeting Agenda Oceanside Community Action Team (OCAT) Meeting Tuesday , 2024, December 17, 1 to 3 pm by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘This is an example of why services like this are needed,’ doctor says by Cindy E. Harnett from the Times Colonist – Read the source article here A patient fatally overdosed at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Tuesday shortly after a nearby pop-up service to prevent such deaths had closed, […]
Organizers were forced to move overdose prevention sites from hospital property in Victoria and Nanaimo after Island Health shut them down by Michael John Lo and Carla Wilson, Times Colonist. Read the full source article Doctors and volunteers received a frosty welcome from Island Health security guards on Monday when […]
From Spring Magazine – Read the full Article By Cassie Van Camp, Heather Tunold, Ji-Youn Kim, Joey Ho, Kristi Lemke, Tyson Singh Kelsall Last month, BC NDP Premier David Eby announced his party would expand prisons and hospital psychiatric wards under the facade of “compassionate, secure care” and “public safety” […]
by Skye Ryan at Chek News – Now that Cathi Bates has her daughter Carli back in her life again, she doesn’t want to let go. “Just having her back in my life again. When she was on the streets I didn’t sleep for close to a year when she […]
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