Tag: overdose
Navigating the Baffling Systems of Care That Failed My Son
[The following article is excerpted from two chapters of Cover My Dreams in Ink, ...
I Cannot Stand to See Another Deadly Month Go By in British Columbia
On July 16, the British Columbia Coroners Service released its monthly overdose fatality report. ...
Beneath Tragic New US Overdose Figures, There Are Wide Regional Variations
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its analysis of overdose ...
PANDA: The Birth of a Pan-American Drug-User Alliance
You can draw interwoven lines of suffering right down through the Americas. British Columbia, ...
“I Can’t Breathe”—The Haunting Urgency of Juice WRLD’s Post-OD Album
Since the December 8, 2019 fatal overdose of Jarad Higgins—a Black rapper who went ...
How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police
Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to ...
New Spike in Coronavirus Cases Could Further Worsen Overdose Crisis
As many US jurisdictions have eased pandemic restrictions, new coronavirus cases have been spiking ...
Support, Don’t Punish 2020: A Global Day of Action Against the Drug War
Friday, June 26 marks the Support, Don’t Punish 2020 Global Day of Action—an annual ...
Methadose: A Parable of Putting Profit Before Human Lives
Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work ...
New K2 Compound in Canadian Heroin Supply Amid Surging Fatal ODs
A little-known synthetic cannabinoid, a class of compounds colloquially referred to as “K2” or ...
