Isolation, drug-supply disruptions and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have sent North America’s already-high overdose rates soaring. Here in…
"The homeless crisis interested me,” says Mary Duffy of the time before she herself became homeless in Texas. “I wouldn’t…
Just before we went into lockdown, I visited Sanctuary, a homelessness organization in Toronto, to interview people with experience of…
“Six months ago Jonny Brown admits he was in a dark place. Addicted to drugs, he'd lost his house and…
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
Viewed from the United States, Canada’s comparatively liberal social mores and universal healthcare would seem to set the stage for…