"After years of mass fatalities during a toxic drug crisis, researchers warn that sometimes the population at risk can shrink. When thousands of people die, fewer people remain in the statistics." “You can’t die twice.” @reclaimcollective.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

When overdose deaths drop, politicians are quick to claim their policies are working. Another explanation: the population at risk can shrink after years of mass fatalities. When thousands of people die during a toxic drug crisis, fewer people remain in the statistics. You can’t die twice 🗣️

Governments approach the toxic drug crisis with organized abandonment, when those in power deliberately withdraw support, leaving people vulnerable to harm, poverty and death. Our thoughts with @kokumsarah.bsky.social and @heartforward.bsky.social #DrugSky open.substack.com/pub/heartsal...

Join us and @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social for drop-in, Thursday at 12 EST | 10 am MST. Link 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The topic: What does “recovery” even mean anymore?

Caregivers, especially women, we see you 🫶 #RECLAIMcollective is honored to work on this project, led by @hollymathias.bsky.social at University of Alberta Check out the full report to learn about caregiver experiences for #PWUD in rural Western Canada static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac64...

It turns out the collection of personal health numbers at supervised consumption sites is total bust: six percent of site clients who died over a study period *visited sites again later*. Site clients don't respect the rule, so they swap around PHNs. Wouldn't you? drugdatadecoded.ca/we-can-help-...

Join us tomorrow at 10 MST / 12 EST with @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social for this week’s drop-in discussion topic “Hospital Stigma: strategies for self advocacy and harm reduction inside hospitals” If you’re not already a member, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join Changemark, Reclaim and @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social for another Hot Topic webinar this Thursday, January 29 at 10 MST / 12 EST Register here: www.substanceusehealth.ca/upcoming-pub...

📣 New Report: Unpaid family caregivers are doing essential and often invisible work. Our new community report 🧪shares what caregiving looks like for families supporting people who use drugs in rural Western Canada. Read more: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac64...

🎅🏼To close out our mutual aid for the quarter, we donated $175 to the Guelph van outreach (Sanguen Health Centre) for the informative, fun work they do with #PWUD We also paid a guest blogger $100, whose piece on surviving the cold weather will be featured on the website in the New Year.

Join us at Thursday drop in at 12 EST with @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social 💥 We welcome Steph from Sanguen/ Guelph Community Health Van as well as Jenn, Rebecca & Tonya to share their experience presenting/attending #CCSAconference last week in Halifax, NS ⚓️🦞🗒️

Check out this new piece on safer supply from Fifth Estate featuring our pal Jordan Westfall 💯

Open letter to Postmedia and @calgaryherald.com to call for the OpEd by @guyfelicella.bsky.social to be republished immediately. Silencing people with lived experience is not in keeping with journalistic standards silences us all. #media #journalism #freespeech drive.google.com/file/d/1rzKS...

Hey hey, we are excited for another #ResearchSpotlight with Julia Reid! Click the link below and we’ll see you Thursday, November 13 at 12 pm EST 👀 Partnered with @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are super excited to present at the @drpetercentre Community of Practice on October 29 👻 We will chat about how and why we formed, what we do and our lived experiences in #HarmReduction Please join us 🎃 To register: drpeter-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thursday October 23 at 12 EST / 10 MST Join Reclaim and @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social for this timely discussion on the impacts of de-prescribing, program closures and the current realities facing safe supply clients in #Ontario Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Check out this research on Safer Opioid Supply #SOS program closures that our cofounder Andrzej is a co-author on 👇👇👇 harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

EDMONTON #yeg Check out your municipal candidates’ take on drug policy and harm reduction👇👇👇

#RECLAIMcollective showed our support to numerous #IOAD2025 events in Alberta and Ontario 💜🕯️

🔥 Our Support Don’t Punish 2025 webinar kept building energy as it went. Voices from around the world came together to share truth, strategy, and solidarity. This global conversation was a collective resistance that left us feeling connection and love for PWUD worldwide. #DrugSky #HarmReduction

COMRADE APPRECIATION POST!! We’re not just “peer researchers.” We out ourselves as PWLLE because governments only listen when there’s data. That’s how we’ve won naloxone, SCS’s, and harm reduction supplies by turning our lived experience into evidence. #RECLAIMcollective #UnderDogs #LivedExperience

Peep our guest article for #SupportDontPunish with @drugdatadecoded.ca If you missed our first ever webinar (in preparation for SDP), the recording will be up soon. Huge thanks to our speakers, it was 🔥 drugdatadecoded.ca/reclaim-coll...

From Prairie Harm Reduction and @reclaimcollective.bsky.social - June 26 is Support Don’t Punish Day. Let’s stand up & speak up now and not let Sask follow Alberta’s harmful policies. #skpoli #yxe

In support of this global fight against the war on drugs, RECLAIM Collective will host an international online event in preparation for Support. Dont Punish on June 24th 💥 To register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us at the weekly drop in meeting on Thursday, when we welcome Clare Snelgrove to chat about drug checking in Toronto 🫶🙌 Link to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Out now in Harm Reduction Journal, our team's reflections on key considerations for rural community-based research with families of people who use drugs. Paper and project led by @hollymathias.bsky.social in partnership and funded by CIHR via CRISM. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For over 4 years, the National Safe Supply Community of Practice (NSS CoP) - now known as @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social - has been a cornerstone fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among healthcare providers, frontline workers and people with lived and living expertise.

re-up: let's raise another $10K for Trey's fam. we have to take care of each other. #Vancouver chuffed.org/project/1296...

We’ve had a hard go across Canada the past few years —SCS’s being shut down, loss of safe supply, loss of decrim, implementation of forced treatment, abstinence only Alberta model, encampment sweeps and defunding of harm reduction orgs… the list goes on.

We’re excited too!

SCOOP: Aaron Brown wins injunction, potentially stalling Alberta government's closure of Red Deer overdose prevention site. AB government is legally bound to restore full operating hours at the site within 3 days. Aaron Brown's affidavit is reprinted in full ⬇️ drugdatadecoded.ca/injunction-o...

Happy Holidays! Reclaim will be taking a break until January 6. Have a restful holiday season and we will catch you in 2025!

Hozho Total Wellness I remove and block any energies around me that pretend to like me, drain me, use me, envy me, or secretly compete with me. We are here to inspire and help each other succeed. I stay in my own lane, focused on my own mission, only vibe with energies that want to grow and uplift.

"we tested the drugs all over the place and guys, I think we're fucked"

This was absolutely awful, our Comms girl remembers 😢 Organizing a search party while in a different province was tricky but we found you my dude. All busted up in hospital. Thank you for sharing, we know this was life changing for you 💚👊

If you can help with donations of winter boots, winter wear(gloves are one of our biggest asks) handwarmers, tents, tarps, blankets, sleeping bags,prepackage snacks, Timmy’s gift cards, wound care supplies. Monetary donations are very much appreciated 100% go directly to purchasing above items(4/5)

A young man came up to is with no shoes only wet socks. We tried our best to give him what we had left. A community member approached and removed the liners from his boots to give him. Community takes care of community we see examples of this every day(3/5)

Here at Reclaim, we’ve been discussing how withdrawal isn’t talked about enough. How many of us stayed using to not be sick. Detox is unbearable: the debilitating pain is pure hell. It’s a daily test of survival that affect work, family and our mental health. #Drugsky

bots are becoming a bigger thing on this platform now. not as bad as twitter, but it’s a shame that no matter what, we’re forced into experiencing the internet technological rot that infests online spaces now

Arghh no! 🌀

Sharing please visit @reproductivejusticesurvivors 🌟 Big News! National Healing Fund Launched for Survivors of Forced & Coerced Sterilization 🌟

Interesting research paper. Some good data from clients on a safer supply program in #yyz including the fact that no medication was reported being shared with opioid-naïve individuals! #drugsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.gofundme.com/f/donations-... #BillyVincent #yyc #calgary #Cib #crazyindianbrotherhood

Want to know how we really feel? We will tell you! First hand accounts and our own living experience don’t just guide this work for us but they lead it 🤜🤛 Here’s a clip of Cofounder Danielle (check it out on IG for full reel!) More content about withdrawal experiences coming soon

Here’s some snippets of an IG post we just put out about harmful workplace experiences. If you know you know. More of these to come 🔥

Skeet skeet we don’t know what we’re supposed to do here but amplify what we resonate with 🤔 There’s probably some X trauma that we hesitate in the Blue Skies. We care little about social media’s but it’s a part of life. Do we meme to break the ice? Dogs? Ask us anything lol

Please see the statement from the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (@CANdrugpolicy), the Drug Strategy Network of Ontario (@DrugStrategies), and the HIV Legal Network. www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/media-s...

Cofounder Tonya was out supporting CTS in Kitchener tonight 👏🙏 (Nice shirt 😉)

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior