Carlyn Zwarenstein

    Carlyn is the author of On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance—a book about pain, opioids, harm reduction and the overdose crisis. She’s based in Toronto.

    How a Canadian Decriminalization Model Can Improve on Portugal

    Isolation, drug-supply disruptions and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have sent North America’s ...

    Housing First and the Homelessness Crisis: What Went Wrong?

    “The homeless crisis interested me,” says Mary Duffy of the time before she herself ...

    The Pandemic Accelerates the Rise⁠—and Criminalization⁠—of Tent Cities

    Just before we went into lockdown, I visited Sanctuary, a homelessness organization in Toronto, ...

    Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails

    Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the ...

    Harm Production: Ontario’s Brutal Cuts Add Fuel to the Overdose Fire

    Viewed from the United States, Canada’s comparatively liberal social mores and universal healthcare would ...

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