Tag: overdose
Documents Show BC Scrapped OPC Plan at Hospitals Where Pop-Ups Ran
On November 18, the newly organized group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy set up ...
Unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Sites Open Outside Two BC Hospitals
After two weeks in Royal Jubilee Hospital with a bad bout of pneumonia, Jared ...
CBP Rolls Out Mildly Surprising Workforce Naloxone Policy
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented its first internal policy covering staff access ...
The Overdose Crisis Was Ignored in This Election Cycle
The overdose crisis claims over 100,000 lives each year in the United States, but ...
To Me, International Drug Users Day Should Mean Pride
International Drug Users Day, marked on November 1, is very near and dear to my ...
Puerto Rico Governor’s Drug-Decrim Remarks Prompt Skepticism
Does Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia support decriminalizing drugs? He just gave a ...
A White House Invite for OD Prevention… Then They Shut Me Out
I have been homeless. I have been addicted to heroin. I have spent a ...
Laypeople Administering Naloxone More Often, Per 911-Call Data
In cases where 911 is called, more bystanders than previously have been using naloxone ...
Why Alberta’s OD Figures Don’t Make a Case Against Harm Reduction
Canadian opponents of harm reduction have been pointing to recent data from Alberta as ...
I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.
I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole ...
