Oceanside Community Action Team

Working to reduce deaths and harms due to poverty and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis in Parksville / Qualicum Beach

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Daphne Bramham: Alcohol, not opioids, is Canada’s biggest drug problem

January 22, 2024 oceansidecat 0

From The Vancouver Sun Opinion: More than a century after legalization, governments have yet to properly regulate the drug that’s killing 10 times more people each year than the number dying from illicit drug overdoses. Published May 02, 2019   With so much focus on illicit drugs and overdose deaths, […]

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Our Touching and Successful International Overdose Awareness Day Events

September 13, 2023 oceansidecat 0

Our thanks to our OCAT Coordinator, Jamie Baird; Mom Stop the Harm leader, Jane McCormick; Mid Island Peers, Bill Nelles; Kelly Morris and others who spoke of the personal Recovery Journeys; Jewelz for her songs; Public Health, Mental Health and Substance Use; NARSF’s, Mobile Response Team, and Black Press, who […]

Join Us – International Toxic Drug Poisoning Awareness Day – August 31, 2023

August 24, 2023 oceansidecat 0

Join us at the Parksville Community Centre – 233 Mills St in Parksville, for speakers, free lunch and learn, Naloxone training, and community. Remembering those lost from the harm from the toxic drug supply and the War on Drugs. 12-4 pm.

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