Studies on the effectiveness of "supply-side" drug policy: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... dev.opioidactioncenter.com/resource/iu-... reuter.it-prod-webhosting.aws.umd.edu/sites/defaul... Folks reading this probably know the facts, just a reminder that Trump policy is vibes. Cruel vibes.

Happy to share our new review paper on management of injection drug use-associated endocarditis, including recommendations from a multidisciplinary group in Canada Incl. integrating substance use care in hospital and not requiring abstinence as a condition for surgery onlinecjc.ca/article/S082...

rabble.ca/health/in-pr... "CSC’s own data points to a troubling trend. In January 2025, 3,447 people were enrolled in OAT across federal prisons. By March 2026, that number had declined to 2,565 — a drop of nearly 900. This drop began in the months following the October 2025 policy shift."

www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen... All party committee from both houses of Ireland’s parliament had recommended what the BC Government couldn’t find the courage to do: commit to full decriminalization of personal possession of substances and take a public health approach to addiction.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/07... “The response from our health authorities to this drug crisis — that has been the biggest public health crisis that has faced Canadians and British Columbians in our history — has been anemic at best and potentially furthering harms at worst." - Dr. Jess Wilder

This sounds familiar.

Onto Item I1. Council Member Motion: BC Rent Bank. Loughton moves it and adds an amendment. This whole thing is in response to this horrifying provincial news that will for sure for sure increase homelessness everywhere.

This Thursday #YYJ city council will be “debating” a disturbing motion that proposes shutting down The Harbour, our primary overdose prevention site. We need to be making OPS more accessible to save lives and keep pressure off other health services. Email [email protected] and tell them!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “"It's really heartbreaking to read [Osborne's] advisers saying that they need to be giving her a briefing because there's been attention in the media and not because this is B.C.'s biggest public health crisis and loss of life that we've ever experienced in our history.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... It is about that, actually.

I just published Eyes in the Sky: What Vancouver’s New Police Drones Mean for Your Charter Rights medium.com/p/eyes-in-th...

“The homeless are not Other. They are Us. They are rights bearers no less entitled than any other Canadian citizens to the full benefit and protection of the Charter,” [the ruling] stated. powerful story by @ericwickham.ca

www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... Sing it from the rooftops. "If we are serious about addressing this crisis, we must move beyond punishment and toward evidence-based, compassionate solutions. Anything less is not only ineffective — it is profoundly costly."

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c... Apparently “It’s 100 per cent a drug problem,” and yet it is being treated with increased law enforcement. Hey @davidebybc.bsky.social there are plenty of experts with lived experience and/or clinical acumen who could bail you out here. #bcpoli

💯! Dr. Bonnie Larson: "As a physician, I consider SCS a gold-star public health intervention. It does exactly what it is designed to do with 100 per cent efficacy. Despite such success in saving lives, the UCP has been intent on shuttering Safeworks." calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

It was a beautiful sunny day to come together in community and solidarity with our unhoused neighours. As the city steps up sweeps - no matter what it calls them - we're trying to "provide the services that the city should be providing in these circumstances." #yyj

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "We're trying to blunt some of that risk and, in our view, essentially provide the services that the city should be providing in these circumstances."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... This will continue to get worse until a safe supply is accessible to all who need it. #bcpoli

The government's #1 responsibility is to not get in the way of the people having what they need to stay alive. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #bcpoli

www.readthemaple.com/carney-doubl... “Packages of the size that they’re talking about are not really large enough to be taking on the people they’re implying it for, but they are the size of people who are just trying to get access to the safest supply that they can."

“Government will swear up and down they’ve got more beds, a new phone line, whatever. They tell us all the things they’re doing. And I tell them that whatever it is that they’re doing, it’s not stopping the deaths.” www.timescolonist.com/islander/an-...

the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

thetyee.ca/News/2026/05... More than once a day someone has a non-fatal overdose at B.C.'s busiest hospital. Health authorities say they can't or won't produce comprehensive numbers, but it is clear they could. How can you plug a leaky boat when you aren't allowed to know where the holes are?

regulate the drug supply bsky.app/profile/ctvn...

I deeply appreciate @michellegamage.bsky.social's work on the toxic drug poisoning crisis It's not an "addiction crisis" The use of substances has always been with us—and always will be Let's prevent the social murder by regulating the supply thetyee.ca/News/2026/04... #bcpoli

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... Ten years that they count. More that they don’t. #bcpoli

We are creating space in the Naming a Crisis exhibit for healthcare workers to participate by sharing messages about their experiences in the crisis.

The Victoria Arts Council will be putting on a fantastic show full of both art and events at the Bay Centre from April 7 to 26. namingacrisis.ca/april-exhibit/ #bcpoli #harmreduction

drugdatadecoded.ca/breaking-alb... "These statements also fly in the face of decades of research demonstrating the effectiveness of supervised consumption sites in reducing overdoses, deaths, hospitalizations, and other health outcomes."

BREAKING Alberta government preparing to announce closures of supervised consumption sites in Calgary and Lethbridge, nine days after it published a fraudulent study on site client outcomes. drugdatadecoded.ca/breaking-alb...

From today bsky.app/profile/drug...

We'll be there. You should too. #bcpoli

VPD (and other police forces), of course, drove further panic over safe supply, making comments like this 👇 when they knew well the negligible role of safe supply in their own seizures bsky.app/profile/kwar...

10 years in and “there is no direction to collect that data.”