Safer supply saves lives. It’s that simple. People who use and sell drugs have long known this, and academic research…
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at a pop-up shelter in Halifax, Nova…
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.…