I’ve always enjoyed using benzodiazepines. These depressants—the best known are pharmaceutical brands like Xanax, Valium and Ativan—produce a distinct type…
True safe supply means a legal and regulated supply of the same drugs people access through the unregulated market. In Canada,…
The overdose crisis in British Columbia has killed more than 10,000 people since 2016, when it was first declared a…
As a teenager I was always anxious, to the point I never felt comfortable in my own skin. But that…
It’s hard to write a story about events of which you have almost no recollection. But as the days pass,…
Over the last year or so, I have been purchasing most of my supply of drugs—including fentanyl, cocaine, Xanax, MDMA…
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at a pop-up shelter in Halifax, Nova…
Atlantic Canada often seems to get left out of discussions of our country’s ongoing drug-poisoning crisis. Yet recorded overdose deaths…
Since 2018, the World Hepatitis Alliance has promoted World Hepatitis Day—July 28—with the hashtag #FindingTheMissingMillions. A global advocacy and awareness…
Today, International Drug Users Remembrance Day, is one day among all the others when the people we have lost continue…