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

"BC remains the last province to use deemed consent, which presumes consent to psychiatric treatment for anyone detained under the Mental Health Act." bc.cmha.ca/news/followi...

"Parents who have had their child involuntarily admitted due to drug use are often left disappointed in the results. The new guidance ... 'amounts to a bold and dark experiment...with likely disastrous consequences that might be felt for years and years to come.'" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Long-acting buprenorphine injections (brand name Sublocade) are not “like a vaccine for overdose.”

Reminder that IN REALITY the BCNDP have been trying to coerce youth into medical detention without their consent since 2020. What Eby is saying here is an easily disproven LIE www.squamishchief.com/local-news/s...

It’s been a difficult two weeks fam. Let’s do what we can to keep our community safe. We’ll get through this. Gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.

"We are not a pandemic, we are not a disease. We are people," one resident said. Until we fund housing, healthcare, and harm reduction instead of police and sweeps, we'll keep pushing people into the margins and blaming them for being there. That should not be controversial.

Here is a paper that gets at parental disappointment with outcomes of forced drug treatment on their children. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bcpoli

NURSES ACROSS CANADA SUPPORT DULF The Harm Reduction Nurses Association stands in unwavering solidarity with the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) as they launch their constitutional challenge of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) in BC Supreme Court. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

the workers can refuse to violate the constitutional rights of patients just saying

www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... Tomorrow’s government announcement doesn’t sound like will be just about adults with concurrent disorders. Not that those folks don’t have rights too, and not that forced substance use treatment is any more effective in that population. We Refuse.

Premier Eby will have announcement tmrw about "strengthening access to involuntary care for young people." CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..." bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...

Mayor of Nanaimo comes out in favour of eugenics.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "It doesn't really support people getting on with their lives, you know, being basically chained to a pharmacy all day long.. If we want to help people break up with their drug dealer, avoid the unregulated supply, not overdose overnight, then this is not helpful."

"Some infections will require hospital care, but staying in hospital can be challenging for people with a history of being treated poorly by health-care professionals, for people who are still using drugs but aren’t allowed to use in hospital." thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Translated into Doctor: it is highly likely that repurposed opioid tablets of known potency and purity have a net public health benefit, relative to the easily accessible unregulated market.

A cowardly rush through the legislature. And for what?

(2/2) Further, I have spoken to several practitioners here in NL who stated they would leave their current job if placed in a position where they had to work with clients receiving involuntary treatment. For them, it was a clear ethical issue. So we’d also be losing some great care providers.

If any journalist out there wants to have a more detailed, nuanced conversation about the Minister of Health's comments in this piece, we're here for that. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-... "The 'deemed consent' section is a central part of the case, on which arguments closed just two weeks ago. Now the amendment (Bill 32) voids it, just as the judge begins deliberations."

"Ryan Herriot, a family physician and addiction medicine specialist based in Victoria, said the change represents an 'egregious interference by non-experts into the practice of medicine.'" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #bcpoli #harmreduction

“There are significant human rights related risks of involuntary care: compulsory treatment violates the most basic human rights of self-determination and autonomy and has historically been used to target racialized and marginalized communities.” bchumanrights.ca/resources/pu...

On today’s show we discussed the DULF trial, and the joint statement about legislation for involuntary treatment from @dsdp.ca and the BC Harm Reduction Nurses Association… lots of music, and some info about medetomidine! Tune in next week- Sunday from 3-5!

Tune in on Sunday November 30th from 3-5pm on CJMP 90.1 FM #qathet #community #radio This week: #DULF constitutional challenge begins, BC drug alerts, #VCH #medetomidine information, and more! Open your ear holes and your mind! #harmreductionsaveslives Tune in: radio.garden/listen/cjmp-...

Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.

Thank you @robbotterell.bsky.social for bringing @hrna.bsky.social and our words to the heart of the debate on @davidebybc.bsky.social's plans to expand involuntary treatment and pre-empt the results of a longstanding charter challenge by disability rights groups and others. #harmreduction #bcpoli