Back before I'd ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time preoccupied with whether my prescription stimulant…
In 2019, Canada funded an expansion of safe supply and put out a call for pilot programs. Of particular interest…
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia's overdose crisis has been declared a public health emergency, the consumption…
A small safe supply program in Hamilton, Ontario, is expanding. It has no funding, a capacity limited to a few…
A few weeks ago when the CDC announced we’d passed 100,000 recorded overdose deaths in a 12-month period, I wondered…
In a publicly broadcast meeting on December 6, Toronto’s Board of Health voted unanimously to move forward with an exemption…
The headlines suggested that sanctioned heroin clubs were coming imminently to Vancouver, British Columbia. The truth is a little different.…
On August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day, activists in Vancouver handed out free safe supply of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.…
On July 14 Jean Swanson, a city councillor of Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), helped to hand out free heroin during…
Congresswoman Cori Bush, representing St. Louis, Missouri in the House of Representatives, has broken new ground by indicating her support…