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.”

thetyee.ca/News/2026/02... "People who used substances 'would go and utilize the supervised consumption site and my assessment was able to be a lot more thorough, a lot more grounded in reality.'"

The BCgov’s pilot of drug decriminalization ended last month and added restrictions to the safer supply program. Even as toxic drug poisonings continue, govt has backed away from harm reduction in favour of abstinence models & forced treatment beds—approaches that are not evidence-based 6/ #bcpoli

filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe... “Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.” #bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky

thetyee.ca/News/2026/02... The government is obscuring the nature of the problem, therefore robbing you of a good understanding of the value of proposed solutions. “The public has the right to understand these things fulsomely so that we can have informed conversations about policy responses.”

We are honoured to help tell the story of the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social's political interference in the lives of our patients, in the face of the scientific evidence and the principles of patient-centred care. The science is clear: safe supply saves lives. And there is no evidence of harm. #bcpoli

Housing, food, safety, and connection aren’t luxuries. They are addiction treatment, mental health care, and suicide prevention at the most fundamental level. Ignore that, and we ignore what truly saves lives.

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d... It sure wasn’t, nor by the people most affected.

Your government as stigma-purveyor-in-chief. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli

While it’s certainly a niche target audience, our podcast #RecoveryReform is now in the top 5 most popular harm reduction podcasts! That’s pretty cool. Looking forward to building more in 2026! recoveryreformpodcast.podbean.com

Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds

42 people died from unregulated drugs while in a medical facility between January 1 2023 and August 31 2025 in British Columbia Here is the list. Remember when people were complaining about drug users in hospitals ?

drugpolicy.ca/our-work/add... “Addiction treatment: what it is, where it currently fails, and how it could meet the needs of people and communities.”

The "nobodies" doing "nothing" are the ELITES and most of the politicians representing you. PEOPLE in their communities are in motion, everywhere. You just have to pay attention and importantly you have to JOIN THEM.

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thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... "B.C. instead focused on funding policing, and treatment and recovery beds, which Lapointe said was problematic because the province is not tracking how these investments reduce overdoses, deaths or harms caused by unregulated drugs." #bcpoli #harmreduction

Police exhortations to be taken off mental health calls also prompt us to interrogate pushes in cities across Canada to police "disorder." The one runs counter to the other.

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a... "Doctors like Dr. Caroline Ferris fear that if patients they’ve stabilized are stuck all day waiting for a pharmacist to watch them take their prescriptions — which can be several pills a day — they’ll likely return to using street drugs and could overdose."

here there is a case report of someone who survived 2 non-fatal ODs "We know that our patient received XR-Bup and his risk of fentanyl overdose should have been minimal. However, with the increasing potency of the fentanyl, it is likely that XR-Bup alone is not as effective against overdose."

“I think it’s shaping up to be an unmitigated disaster." The BC government has fast-tracked a law to skirt a constitutional challenge to involuntary treatment, and given doctors permission to force medications on youth, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:

"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca filtermag.org/bc-governmen...

drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-... This is impressive.

An important community and patient perspective. themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v... #bcpoli #harmreduction

"The provincial government didn’t seem influenced by evidence or expert advice on how to prevent overdoses after it ignored multiple recommendations from experts to create a safer drug supply that did not require a prescription." cheknews.ca/former-chief... #bcpoli #drugsky

“There’s a lot of public misunderstanding of what decriminalization was intended to do." Because the government put no effort or resources into properly explaining what it might reasonably do. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d... #bcpoli #decrim #recrim

Seems relevant that "patients appropriate for SUBLOCADE are ADULTS who have AGREED to be treated for OPIOID use disorder." pdf.hres.ca/dpd_pm/00082... #bcpoli

The DULF constitutional challenge will continue tomorrow at 9:30am. Lisa Lapointe will continue her testimony. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

"The Minister of Health has been clear in her comments in the legislature that it is not the government’s intention to expand involuntary treatment through Bill 32." Carefully chosen words one supposes, because just days later... www.healthjustice.ca/blog/bill32 #bcpoli