Communities across the country are mobilizing on September 20th to demand that Prime Minister Carney and Canada’s governments pick a side: injustice, violence, & climate destruction—or a just & safe future for all of us. Sign up to join a #DrawTheLine action near you: drawtheline.world

Executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, DJ Larkin, appeared on CBC News Network to offer comments and context on recently-released data on drug toxicity (overdose) deaths. @candrugpolicy.bsky.social candrugpolicy.nationbuilder.com/r?u=fwHUGiFZ...

Today is #WorldHepatitisDay! Let's break down all the obstacles hindering the elimination of viral hepatitis. Read our president's address! www.worldhepatitisalliance.org/news/world-h...

💬 "These deaths are avoidable." Stigma, underfunding & silence fuel the hepatitis crisis. On #WorldHepatitisDay, we echo @worldhepalliance.bsky.social's call: 🧪 Scale up testing 💊 Expand treatment ✊ End the stigma Read the article 👉 bit.ly/454uM1g

"money should instead be spent on preventing people from becoming unwell in the first place," says our policy analyst Nicole Luongo — including modernizing outpatient mental health and drug treatment systems that are regulated and accessible. Read here: vancouversun.com/health/does-...

“The PTSD I live with — not as a result of being mentally ill, not as a result of being a substance user, but as a result of what I endured in treatment for those conditions — is so severe that my quality of life continues to be exceptionally poor,” #bcpoli #abpoli vancouversun.com/health/does-...

Today, on #SupportDontPunish, we stand in solidarity with people impacted by harmful drug policies — in Canada and around the world. 🔗 Explore more articles and resources: linktr.ee/candrugpolicy

Our new resource – created in partnership with @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social and @candrugpolicy.bsky.social lays out the legal implications of operating an Overdose Prevention Site in Ontario and protections for operators and patrons. www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/it-is-n...

In response to the closure of safe consumption sites in Ontario, communities and volunteers are mobilizing to provide supports. Find out the legal implications of operating an Overdose Prevention Site in Ontario and protections for operators and patrons. www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/it-is-n...

📌See our full list of speakers + more info on our website: 🔗 hractioncollective.com/action/#events #SupportDontPunish #HarmReduction #CareNotCriminalization

📣REGISTER NOW📣 ❤️‍🔥Support. Don’t Punish – Care Not Criminalization 🗓June 26, 2025 ⏰1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT 🎟Register now for a special virtual event marking Support. Don't Punish 2025. 🔗 supportdontpunish2025.eventbrite.ca

"Community-controlled decriminalization is a better path to mainstreaming psychedelics than relinquishing power to the medical industry and pharmaceutical cartels that provide monopolized services to primarily affluent customers." Read more: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

📣🗓️SAVE THE DATE🗓️📣 ❤️‍🔥Support. Don’t Punish – Care Not Criminalization 🗓️June 26, 2025 ⏰1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT 🗓️Save the date for our event marking Support. Don’t Punish 2025. We are hosting a series of speakers from across the country to mark the Global Day of Action💥

Due to unforeseen circumstances, our webinar on HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, and 2SLGBTQIA+ History is postponed. We’ll share the new date soon — stay tuned!

Canadians take pride in universal health care, but to make it truly accessible, we must invest in the full range of care including mental health and substance use services. @candrugpolicy.bsky.social

We are hosting a webinar alongside @candrugpolicy.bsky.social to bring together people who lived and organized through the HIV/AIDS epidemic and those currently working at the intersections of harm reduction, drug policy, Indigenous rights, and HIV/AIDS. sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you to the National Homeless Law Center in Washington D.C. for this letter to Doug Ford re: Bill 6, which criminalizes encampment residents. The U.S. has seen how policies that criminalize homeless people fail to address both encampments or community safety. Bill 6 must be rescinded.

Want to send a message to Doug Ford and the Ontario government? Help us tell them that Ontarians need housing — not punishment. That we want a government that protects us from Trump instead of acting like Trump. Sign and share our petition now: tinyurl.com/RescindBill6

📣 Tell the Ontario government: Rescind Bill 6! Uphold people’s human rights. Protect Ontarians — don’t punish them! 📢 🔗 Show your support and sign the letter now - tinyurl.com/RescindBill6 🔗

Join us May 14 for a conversation with people who organized through the HIV/AIDS crisis and those leading community responses today. We'll explore how these movements began, what was achieved, and why solidarity is essential now. 🕐 1–2:30pm ET 💻 Register here: sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today, we honour #RedDressDay — the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ People. Each red dress is a symbol of a stolen life and a call to action. We remember, we mourn, and we stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities demanding justice.

New from @healthpoverty.bsky.social : Legal drug regulation can advance global justice — if built on equity, sustainability & community leadership. The report maps 9 ways reform can shift power: trade, tax, Indigenous rights, climate justice & more. 🔗 www.healthpovertyaction.org/the-legal-re...

📢📣WE DEMAND BETTER📣📢 🗳️ A federal election is now upon us. We must #DemandBetter. We must #DemandJustice. As a non-partisan, independent grassroots collective of harm reductionists, organizers, activists, and advocates from across the country, we work to change unjust policies.

Supervised consumption sites in Ontario still face closure—despite a court ruling recognizing the risk of irreparable harm. Last week, the Ontario Superior Court acknowledged these closures mean greater risk of overdoses, deaths, & disease transmission. Press Release: drugpolicy.ca/despite-onta...

The court has granted an injunction! Safe Consumption Sites in Ontario will not be forced by law to close on Monday!

Good News! Supervised Consumption Sites has been granted an injunction, allowing us to stay open until the court makes its final decision. This is a huge step forward in our fight to protect life-saving harm reduction services. Thank you to everyone who has supported us!

I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com about my experience photographing the toxic drug supply crisis and the people I love who continue to fight for evidence-based solutions. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Portraits of a crisis: Documenting the everyday of a forever emergency of B.C.’s overdose crisis, by @jackiedives.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

Join us and @tngcommunityto.bsky.social to debrief and discuss this week's Charter Challenge to Ontario's Community Care and Recovery Act today at 12:00 p.m. EDT. To register, please visit: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Posting this again: Street Health in Toronto is hiring grief counselors in anticipation of the impact of Ontario's Community Care and Recovery Act taking effect. #SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth

This will be today’s thread for live-updates from the courthouse in the Charter Challenge to the Ontario law that will force many safe consumption sites in the province to close by the end of this month. #SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli

If you want to catch up on yesterday's events in the Charter Challenge, you can find our live-posts starting here: bsky.app/profile/hivl...

“Save our sites or fill your morgues.” “People are afraid. People are very, very scared.” Follow the latest from inside the court c/o @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social + @tngcommunityto.bsky.social #SaveOurSites #CTSsaves

Applicants lawyers now focusing on the major harm to service users that would be caused by relocation. Even if possible, moving could make sites inaccessible to clients. 90% of clients are experiencing homelessness and can't just jump in a car to get to another CTS. #SaveOurSites #CTSontario

We are teaming up with @tngcommunityto.bsky.social to debrief and discuss any decisions that come from the Court today and tomorrow. Join us for this virtual session at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 26. Register in advance here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A constitutional challenge being heard today, brought forward by @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and two individual Applicants, will determine whether a number of life-saving supervised consumption sites in the province can continue to operate past the end of this month.

Charter Challenge begins Monday. May justice prevail, for everyone's health and safety. With deep gratitude to @candrugpolicy.bsky.social @tngcommunityto.bsky.social @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social ,TOPS, THRA ++ for your life-saving efforts. www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

🎙️Join us today at 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST for our online briefing! Can't make it? Keep an eye out for the recording. 📹

Kudos to the Toronto Board of Health for challenging Ontario's fact-free decision to kill Consumption and Treatment Services, drug checking, and more, at the Superior Court of Justice. Online briefing Thursday with other intervenors @candrugpolicy.bsky.social ++ here: drugpolicy.ca/advisory-org...

We’re already seeing increased public drug consumption after the closure of Somerset West SCS in Ottawa & several deaths of people connected to the South Riverdale site in Toronto, two sites that have already been forced to close by the Ford government’s disastrous policy change. #ONpoli #SCS

Join us to learn about the legal challenge against Ontario’s Community Care and Recovery Act—a harmful law forcing 10 #SCS to close by April 1 Hosted w/ Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance, @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social & Toronto Overdose Prevention Society 📅 March 20 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks to the @candrugpolicy.bsky.social for the video shoutout on LinkedIn!

International Drug Policy Consortium member meeting ahead of the 68th Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Always good to start the week with forward thinking and lovely people. @idpc.bsky.social @candrugpolicy.bsky.social #CND68 #CND2025

‼️ New ‼️ Evaluating the risk for nurses of fentanyl exposure and the harms of perpetuating exposure misinformation. From Serena Eagland, @pattywilson.bsky.social and me! www.canadian-nurse.com/blogs/cn-con...

"Today, many people in Canada still do not have access to needed mental health and substance use health services..." More: www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

[WEBINAR] We’re back! 🚨 Our postponed webinar "Beyond the Distractions: Criminalization across Communities" is happening Wednesday, Feb 19—and you won’t want to miss it! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Out enemies are targeting reproductive rights rights, trans rights, the rights of those with mental illness and the rights of drug users. We’re building solidarity and fighting back.

Also: Canada allocates $1.3B for law enforcement to crackdown on drug trade, including appointing 'fentanyl czar'. "Right now we are ramping up the war on drugs, which is actually a war on people who use drugs" said @nickboyce.bsky.social of @candrugpolicy.bsky.social: filtermag.org/canada-fenta...

🎙️PODCAST: Why some worry a 'fentanyl czar' might do more harm than good Petra Schulz, co-founder of @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social , weighs in on the government's plan to create a fentanyl czar. Listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...