Tag: overdose
Why the Drug User Liberation Front Gave Out Free, Checked Drugs in Vancouver
The Drug User Liberation Front, a Vancouver-based activist group, made a serious statement on ...
Why I Overdosed During the Pandemic, and Why I Survived
[This article contains graphic descriptions of drug use and overdose.] Overdosing and being ...
California’s Huge Overdose Increase Didn’t Have to Happen
The overdose crisis has finally reached California, following a relative delay in the arrival ...
British Columbia’s Troubling Bid to Detain Young People Who Overdose
On June 23, the provincial government of British Columbia announced the first reading of ...
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 ...
