Tag: overdose
A BC Safe Supply Program Pushes the Medical Model as Far as It Will Go
In 2019, Canada funded an expansion of safe supply and put out a call ...
Appeal Dismissal Means New Alberta SCS Barriers Now Take Effect
Alberta harm reductionists are reeling as their appeal over an injunction against a new ...
BC Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin and No One Can Use It Yet
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia’s overdose crisis has been declared ...
Insurers Illegally Denying Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder Benefits
The US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury released a ...
Doubling Down on Fentanyl Myths, West Virginia Bill Would Punish “Exposing” Cops
On January 18, West Virginia legislators advanced a bill that would make “exposing” law ...
An Opioid Vaccine Is Not the Answer
In 1974, scientists at the University of Chicago immunized a rhesus monkey against morphine. ...
NYC Vending Machines to Distribute Free Naloxone and Other Supplies
Before the end of 2022, New York City residents should be able to access ...
In Hamilton, Ontario, a Safe Supply Program Inches Forward
A small safe supply program in Hamilton, Ontario, is expanding. It has no funding, ...
CDC Total Recorded Overdose Deaths Pass 1 Million
A few weeks ago when the CDC announced we’d passed 100,000 recorded overdose deaths ...
Hochul Signs Long-Awaited Bill Removing MOUD Barriers for New Yorkers on Medicaid
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that removed prior authorization for people on ...
