Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows 'These are all preventable deaths,' says founder of Victoria outreach group #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

To all the nurses showing up every day with skill, heart, advocacy, and humanity: you are seen. You deserve better than being asked to carry systems that are being eroded in the name of fiscal responsibility. We should never stop demanding better for our patients, communities, and each other.

Nurses don’t need performative recognition. We need meaningful action on the conditions putting our patients in harm’s way—poverty, the toxic unregulated drug supply, housing insecurity, underfunded healthcare, and burnout treated like a badge of honour.

I want a world where people can access care before they end up in emergency rooms. I want fewer people discharged into homelessness. Fewer preventable drug poisoning deaths. Fewer patients slipping through the cracks. We need leaders willing to address root drivers of harm.

It’s #NationalNursesWeek, and nurses don’t want pizza parties and a week of appreciation. We want a stable public health system. Safe and sustainable nurse-to-patient ratios. Real investment in retention, prevention, public health, and harm reduction. 🧵 #Nurse #nurses #harmreduction #healthequity

On #HarmReductionDay, we honour communities, peer workers and civil society organisations keeping each other alive — often with little to no funding, protection or recognition. #SupportDontPunish

Today, on International Harm Reduction Day, we honour everyone working to keep people alive, safe, connected, and cared for. This work is hard. Many are carrying grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty. But we are stronger together, and none of us do this work alone. #harmreduction

Supervised consumption sites are being closed and defunded across Canada. Join HRNA for a critical conversation with Tara Gomes, Gillian Kolla & Elaine Hyshka on impacts, misinformation, and the risks of policy driven by flawed research. 🗓️ June 11 at 12pm PST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The story isn’t that an #Alberta minister “admitted he was wrong”. It’s that he spread a false claim about supervised consumption sites—despite zero recorded deaths at these facilities—manufacturing consent to shutter life-saving services. #abpoli #cdnpoli edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/04/28/a...

Flawed overdose prevention study cited by Sask. government 'dangerous,' critics say 'The government marked its own homework,' nurse says of Alberta study www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

SCOOP 🧵 A snitch law passed by provincial governments twenty years ago has been retooled by the Alberta government for use against nonprofit agencies it seeks to defund. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

“We will emerge into a landscape of rational drug policy, even if it remains pretty dark until we get there.” Victoria-based addiction medicine specialist Dr. Ryan Herriot writes. #ToxicDrugCrisis #bcpoli

This first line in this article "It was 2014 when I first heard of fentanyl entering the unregulated drug supply." feels like a stab in my heart. It was in 2014 that I learned about the contaminated supply by losing my youngest son Danny to it. The day that made me an accidental advocate.

Ten years into a declared emergency. More than 18,000 deaths. Preventable. Still preventable. “What has become most alarming is not only the scale of loss, but how normalized this crisis has become” Read HRNA’s statement here. #bcpoli www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/04/14/t...

🚨#FridayFacts: Evidence shows supervised consumption sites prevent deaths, reduce ER visits, and connect people with care. Closing them is dangerous. Tell Premier Ford to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio...#FridayFacts: #HarmReduction

Fatally flawed policies based on a flawed study as outlined here “…poor accounting for confounding service changes, potential model misspecifications, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.” odprn.ca/research/pub...

Thank you for speaking out for life and for the evidence in support of consumption sites.

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

Manitoba’s Bill 48 empowers police to target individuals of perceived drug intoxication and detain them for 3 days in solitary confinement. How does the expansion of involuntary detention and forced detox, made possible through Bill 48, deepen colonial harm? yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/care-no...

Ontario is facing a #ToxicDrugCrisis — and losing supervised consumption services will only make it worse. Your voice matters more than ever. Urge Premier @fordnation to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio...

An important read! “Johnson says their donor-driven model provides stability, enabling the site to focus on “doing what we know is right and needed,” rather than chasing shifting government priorities.” #onpoli #cdnpoli #harmreduction www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/03/31/h...

Open Letter: Defunding of all Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario “Effective law and policy must be grounded in evidence, and shifting funding from SCS elsewhere is not supported by evidence or the public at large.” #onpoli #cdnpoli drugpolicy.ca/open-letter-...

Attention AB nurses. Please sign the petition and send a letter to the Premier & Minister of Mental Health & Addiction (MLA Rick Wilson). Thank you to @hrna.bsky.social for the letter template & links for sending. Harm Reduction Saves Lives

“Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People cannot access recovery if they are no longer alive.” Thank you @hrna.bsky.social 💜 www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/27/h...

"Closing supervised consumption services will not resolve homelessness, poverty, or unmet mental health needs. It will intensify them. It will shift harm into public spaces, increase pressure on emergency services, and deepen inequities across communities." #yeg #yegcc #ableg

The Harm Reduction Nurses Association Condemns Decision to Close Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta Read our statement here 👇👇👇 #abpoli #onpoli www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/27/h...

“The decisions made by the governments of Alberta and Ontario will put tens of thousands of lives at risk for fatal overdose, increasing health system expenditures and wait-time pressures for an already strained system.” @canadanurses.bsky.social 👏👏 #abpoli #onpoli www.cna-aiic.ca/en/blogs/cn-...

Supervised consumption services are evidence based, compassionate, and essential. Removing them will cost lives — but together we can push for change. Join us in urging Premier Ford to reverse the decision to close supervised consumption services: RNAO.ca/policy/actio... #HarmReduction

🚨URGENT: Evidence shows supervised consumption sites prevent deaths, reduce ER visits, and connect people with care. Closing them is dangerous. Tell Premier Ford to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio... #HarmReduction

“The Harm Reduction Nurses Association stands in firm opposition to this decision. We stand in solidarity with people who use drugs, harm reduction workers, peers, nurses, and communities who refuse to accept policies that abandon people to preventable death.” www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/17/h...

Closing Supervised Consumption Services Will Cost Lives, Premier! The @rnao.ca “is urging Premier Ford to reverse this decision. For the sake of those at risk, nothing else will suffice.” Please sign this Action Alert urgently! #onpoli #cdnpoli rnao.ca/policy/actio...

For Immediate Release: “Harm Reduction Nurses Denounce Ontario Decision to End Supervised Consumption Services” Read the full statement here: www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/17/h... @rnao.ca @canadanurses.bsky.social #cdnpoli #onpoli #Ontario #HarmReduction #Nurses

Extremely disappointing to see the lack of accountability and compassion from municipal leaders here. “there's no correlation between our actions and the overdose events so no one's holding us to blame for that,” Counterpoint, saying “we’re not to blame” does not exonerate you. 🧵 #bcpoli

🚨Province-wide drug alert in BC🚨 The BCCDC has issued an alert due to an increase in drug poisonings. “Opioids/down now often contain the sedative medetomidine.” Poster: towardtheheart.com/assets/uploa... Alert: towardtheheart.com/alerts #bcpoli

The HRNA stands with the UBCIC and echoes the serious concerns they have raised about BC’s decision to end the decriminalization pilot. We are grateful for UBCIC’s leadership in naming the harms of returning to punitive approaches amidst this ongoing public health emergency. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Statement and call to action from members of our Beyond Do No Harm Network—as they point out, coercion and involuntary treatment for substance use disorders violates the ethical obligations of their role as health care workers, "undermines human rights, and will increase, not reduce, harm":

NEW analysis in The Mainlander: The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership. themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...

We must subject these policies to critical scrutiny: Who benefits from involuntary drug treatment? Not the patients. Not the nurses, doctors, or other allied healthcare professionals. Do you feel safer knowing the gov is changing laws to protect care providers so they can violate patient rights?

There are many reasons oppose BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. Not everything could be covered in a single statement. Today, let’s talk about some of the evidence + ethical implications of co-opting caring professionals + requiring them to violate their professional ethics. #bcpoli

When nurses and other caring professionals are required to violate their own code of ethics, they face a heightened risk of moral injury. In 2024, the @hrna.bsky.social and @canadanurses.bsky.social wrote an open letter to then-Federal Health Minister Mark Holland.

Read the statement from @hrna.bsky.social and @dsdp.ca here 👇 www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... Healthcare workers can sign this community petition launched in 2024: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Say no to involuntary treatment—say yes to human rights, evidence, and compassion. #bcpoli

care is not forced. read the full statement from @hrna.bsky.social & Doctors for Safer Drug Policy here: www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... bsky.app/profile/dsdp...

Sign the community-led petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please join our campaign with @power1312.bsky.social, CSSDP, and @hrna.bsky.social to push back on the dark direction the BC government is taking substance use policy and mental health care. Read the statement here: www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc...

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

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The predictable, ongoing result of a total failure to replace the unregulated supply with a regulated one.

Vancouver Fire Rescue Services responded to 54 overdoses last Friday - the most in a single day in the department's history. Averaged 16 per day in May. There has been a surge in ODs reported all across the province in the past few weeks.

We are calling on colleagues, health-care associations, unions, regulatory bodies, and public health leaders to endorse the statement, share it widely, and join us in demanding voluntary, evidence-based, rights-affirming responses to the toxic drug crisis. #WeRefuse #bcpoli #harmreduction

We honour people with lived and living experience who have long resisted coercive drug policy, including those who launched last year’s petition opposing involuntary care. Their leadership continues to guide this work. Statement: www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... Petition: shorturl.at/ZHh2E