“The US has decertified Colombia as a reliable partner in the War on Drugs for the 1st time in almost 30 years—though w/a waiver that suspends sanctions or cancels funding for bilateral anti-drug operations between the 2 countries.” Trump issues imperialist report cards while gutting harm reduction.

On the plus side, the USA is increasingly self-alienating and losing allies over its arrogance and threats. Read this 👇 UN Member States initiate an overdue review of the UN drug control “machinery” with a newly emerging political alliance idpc.net/blog/2025/03...

I must have missed this “Presidential Determination” piece of imperial American propaganda—it’s getting hard to keep up with the USA’s rapid descent into overt fascism. A short 🧵 www.state.gov/releases/off...

We at the @hrna.bsky.social denounced Bill C-2, calling it “an outdated, xenophobic drug interdiction policy that prioritizes border theatrics over evidence and human rights”. We, like many others, asked Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social to rescind the Bill. www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2025/08/27/h...

More exciting news from @hrna.bsky.social! Check out our new website! www.hrna-aiirm.ca

HRNA’s 2025/2026 webinar season is going to be 🔥. Up first, “A Crisis of Disorder or a Crisis of Legitimacy? A Critical Discourse Analysis of B.C. Police Officers' Perspectives on Decriminalization” When: October 1st at 12pm PST. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Donate your day's wage as a concrete action to fight the war on drugs and help Weaving Our Worlds raise $10,000 in 2 weeks to defend the Drug Users Liberation Front. Why? See link below. #IOAD2025 #SolidarityForever chuffed.org/project/dulf...

As the #WDR2025 acknowledges, poverty, inequality and stigma compound drug-related harm. Efforts to ensure non-discriminatory access to care are fundamental to saving lives. https://f.mtr.cool/bnqnvamupl  🧵3/6

The @hrna.bsky.social are still awaiting a response from @mark-carney.bsky.social. Wondering if the PM has any plans for #IOAD2025.

The question is not whether allowing access to regulated drugs is the right thing to do. The question is whether enough collective will can be mustered to overcome the carceral bureaucracy keeping regulated drugs out of reach. DULF can do it –– with your help. drugdatadecoded.ca/the-most-urg...

Read this 👇 “These deaths—so many of which could have been avoided if banned drugs were legally regulated—are better described as “prohibition-related deaths.”” Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths” #IOAD2025 filtermag.org/overdose-pro...

HRNA are calling for the federal gov’t to: 1️⃣Rescind Bill C-2. 2️⃣Reject forced “treatment.” 3️⃣Fund health, housing, harm reduction & Indigenous healing. 4️⃣Legislate equity-based public health. 5️⃣Meet HRNA Board in 30 days. #NoMoreDrugWar #IOAD2025

Yesterday, @hrna.bsky.social sent this important letter to Canadian PM @mark-carney.bsky.social. We need your help! Please share the letter and our urgent request! #cdnpoli #bcpoli #IOAD #IOAD2025

As a mother morning the loss of a child I echo this call! Danny’s death was preventable, so were the deaths of the 52,000+ that followed. 💔 #IOAD2025

@gordjohns.bsky.social @heathermcpherson.bsky.social please take this message to the house this fall.

When words fail, folks keep finding them. It's a good letter. #IOAD2025 @davidebybc.bsky.social

@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social It’s time to listen to us.

NEW: Canada’s harm reduction nurses call on Prime Minister Carney to rescind harmful drug policies and fund evidence-based care ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day. A short 🧵 #IOAD #IOAD2025 #cdnpoli #drugsky #cdnmedia #bcpoli #nurse #nurses

Seizing drugs doesn’t make communities safer. Canada's knee-jerk reaction to the Trump administration's disinformation on the drug trade will cost lives. Learn why:

the guaranteed provision of a home for everyone is the only solution to mass homelessness, and this is a basic requirement of a functional society

“The harms of prohibition are, as so often, not just ‘unintended’ side effects but predictable outcomes of policies built on punitive, racist, colonial logics.” I wrote about the coca review process and the importance of this moment, via @idpc.net. idpc.net/blog/2025/08...

I’m very proud of the work we do at @hrna.bsky.social. Check out this thread to learn about two important initiatives we have taken on!

Over the past year, HRNA has been hard at work advancing our mission: promoting the advancement of harm reduction nursing through practice, education, research, and advocacy. We’re excited to share two big education updates that bring us closer to our goal. #harmreduction www.hrna-aiirm.ca/about/

“By offering policy ‘solutions’ to a non-existent problem, Canada has accepted the dominant narrative that they are somehow complicit in significantly contributing to the American drug poisoning emergency.” By me on July 3rd idpc.net/blog/2025/07...

“A fact sheet from the White House says Canada "failed to cooperate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl"… U.S. government data shows a minuscule amount of fentanyl is seized at the border with Canada compared to Mexico.” It’s never been about fentanyl. Reverse Bill C-2 #cdnpoli

This isn’t just embarrassing, it’s dangerous. Fentanyl exposure mis/disinformation leads to harsher laws and penalties, policies that direct resources to non-issues, profiteers selling “fentanyl resistant PPE”, and divestment from #HarmReduction. www.live5news.com/2025/07/29/v...

This campaign provides irrefutable evidence of unforgivable deception by federal leaders as well as a range of actions you can take ranging from one minute to several hours of effort. Whatever time you've got, do something! This country is complicit. armsembargonow.ca/report/

Everyone should know what an overdose looks like. Feel free to share:

We are 9 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days into BC’s declared public health emergency of toxic unregulated drugs.

he'll throw any of you away just as casually as he has British Columbians who use drugs. he'll throw you away in an instant. he won't even have to think about it. you're gone.

"It illustrates that despite deceptive government statements, the flow of military cargo from Canada to Israel has been uninterrupted." Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

NEW: A report released today from grassroots researchers found that Canada has sent about 400 arms shipments to Israel since October 2023, with many of these exports sent on commercial passenger planes. www.readtheorchard.org/p/grassroots...

the unregulated drug market – its profits, its customers & their deaths – is undeniable evidence that the Canadian universal healthcare system is a lie, a failure because the unregulated drug market is private for-profit healthcare & the federal government COMPELS it to exist like this:

Save me from the faux disappointed-dad-energy of the Victoria police chief. Expecting staff to serve as police informants, inside or outside the site, dangerously blurs the lines between healthcare and law enforcement. #bcpoli 🧵 cheknews.ca/be-better-vi...

It’s taken me some time to digest the Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets executive order that was dropped last Thursday. On initial inspection, yikes. Upon closer inspection, fucking yikes. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

this WorkSafe BC exposure limit which came into effect on January 29, 2025 is a retroactive justification for the government's failure to implement indoor drug inhalation spaces @oag.bc.ca @hrna.bsky.social @candrugpolicy.bsky.social www.worksafebc.com/en/health-sa...

Canada should call their bluff: legalize and regulate all currently prohibited drugs. this ↓ is by @nurseranger.bsky.social

“We can give wraparound care, safe consumption sites, drug testing strips, but in the end, until we deal with that drug supply, people won’t stop dying.”

Canada gave in to US pressure—adopting a harsh new border law based on false claims about the drug trade. Here's why that’s dangerous:

it was a scam. Ford scammed you. this is straight up murder. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wrote about Fentanyl Czars, the Strong Borders Act (Bill C-2) and Canada’s appeasement policy with the Mad King™️ to the South. And I wrote about how we at the @hrna.bsky.social are finding new strategies to fight back. “Same fight, new arena” via the @idpc.net blog. idpc.net/blog/2025/07...

This is a shamefully biased article from the Times Colonist—the author uses negative framing to guide readers towards viewing harm reduction as “questionable” or “unsafe”. “So-called supervised-consumption sites”…”crack-pipe-dispensing vending machine” #bcpoli

On day 3 of #ICN2025, the @hrna.bsky.social is showcasing their poster “Harm Reduction in Nursing Education: a Call to Act”. #HarmReduction #Nursing

The @hrna.bsky.social is at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress 2025 in #Helsinki, presenting on the new #HarmReduction course, delivered in partnership with the University of Victoria (@uvic.ca). #ICN2025 #ICNCongress

Spotted at the opening ceremony of #ICN2025, Canada’s Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Dr. Leigh Chapman.

A fantastic read, with an enjoyable amount of sarcasm, from Kastalia Medrano via @filtermag.bsky.social. “Fentanyl Containment Devices” Are Not Quite What They Sound Like filtermag.org/fentanyl-con...

Let us be guided by our values, the evidence, and never by threats and disinformation. This new Liberal Government could stand up for Canadians, save lives, and keep communities safe by investing in policies that frame this devastating public health emergency as a health, not criminal, issue. End.

Fentanyl is a molecule, it does not compel people to use it and if it suddenly disappeared from the unregulated drug supply, people would still use drugs. Interdiction is a game of whack-a-mole: fix your gaze on fentanyl too long, then nitazenes arrive. stories.northernhealth.ca/news/drug-ad...

By responding to the accusations with the current policy direction of bolstering interdiction, the Canadian Government accepts the lazy problematization that fatal drug poisonings are caused by external actors, versus focusing on internal structural determinants and inequities.