Tag: safe supply
Heroin Nasal Spray Increases Harm Reduction Options in Switzerland
Back in the 1990s, Switzerland pioneered heroin-assisted treatment—successfully addressing HIV and overdose crises by ...
Mass Calls for Harm Reduction on International Overdose Awareness Day
On International Overdose Awareness Day, August 31, more than 50 harm reduction groups in ...
DULF Keeps Distributing Checked Drugs as Health Canada Flags Denial
On May 4 in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) distributed ...
Vancouver Safe Supply Program Begins Prescribing Take-Home Fentanyl
Despite efforts to make medical safe supply programs in Canada as low-barrier as possible, ...
The US Gets Its First Free, Rapid Drug-Checking Mail Program
Traditionally, the conversation around US safe supply consists of saying that we don’t have ...
How Buying My Drugs Online Has Been Working for Me
Over the last year or so, I have been purchasing most of my supply ...
As People Who Use Drugs, We Are the Safer Supply Experts—Not Physicians
Safer supply saves lives. It’s that simple. People who use and sell drugs have ...
How Halifax’s Safe Supply Hotels Brought Hope in the Early Pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at ...
Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually
Back before I’d ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time ...
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 ...
