🚨#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

We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public. @hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.

In case you missed this webinar hosted by @hrna.bsky.social, you can check out the recording here! youtu.be/5_eu8Je7WDU?...

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

You really have to read both of @kwardvancouver.bsky.social’s skeet’s to get how fucked up this is. I’ll just put the headlines side by side. Displacement and evictions are forms of violence. They result in very observable harms including death and irreparable injury. #bcpoli

”…this continually unfolding tragedy is a violation of human rights and the result of systemic discrimination…” B.C. Human Rights Commissioner’s Statement on the Toxic Drug Crisis bchumanrights.ca/resources/pu...

“Government's obligation is to save lives, reduce harm and improve quality of life for those who have been marginalized, while working toward greater equity for everyone.” Everyone should take a moment to read this statement from the BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner. #bcpoli

A human rights-based approach to the toxic drug crisis would require public policy that recognizes the full humanity of people who use unregulated drugs which would be a whole new thing

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DULF co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were each found guilty of three counts of trafficking meth, heroin and cocaine this morning. The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca

Webinar Alert 🚨 Protecting Life, Not Punishing Help: Understanding the Supreme Court’s Good Samaritan Ruling in R v Wilson. Presented in partnership with @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social. When: November 18 at 12pm PST Who: Open to Public How: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

martlet.ca/potent-synth... "Government intervention in medical decision-making has limited access to pharmaceutical-grade opioid tablets, [so] 'It’s not surprising that people are going to seek those tablets elsewhere.'"

“Herriot said that nearly half of people who regularly access the unregulated drug supply do not have an opioid addiction, and access the market recreationally only a few times a year, while the other half accesses the market due to addiction.” everyone needs a safe supply

“Politicians need to do better, and this case is really, really clear on that.” Harm reductionists explain a key victory, as a Supreme Court of Canada ruling affirms protection from possession arrests for people at an OD scene. @maddidellplain.bsky.social reports:

“People who are getting clicks and likes online and [we have] a reactive government that is responding to the moral panic to avoid getting voted out … so we have policymakers with extremely liberal backgrounds doing extremely conservative things to retain their position of power,” Ranger said.