Reposted from Nanaimo News Now NANAIMO — A group of Island doctors and volunteers pushing for governments and health authorities to provide overdose prevention sites at hospitals continues gaining traction. Doctors for Safer Drug Policy has continued operating their unsanctioned pop-up overdose prevention site (OPS) across from the Nanaimo Regional […]
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 […]
New report by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Download the original here.
B.C. communities participated in the report by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition by Tyler Harper – Dec 6, 2024 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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