Going back to my radio roots….. stay tuned 😉 #communityradio #cjmp #qathet #harmredux

It’s finally here! Been waiting for a few weeks for this to show up!! Can’t wait to dive into it, so grateful to Garth for sharing his story with us! Thank you and keep fighting…we need your voice xo ❤️

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qathet NEST Society has emerged as a new non profit in #qathet #powellriver Nurturing Empowerment and Support Together, NEST prioritizes empowering and uplifting peer perspectives and leadership, and looks forward to supporting arts & creative community actions, mutual aid, wellness and compassion.

Relevant #powellriver

Drug alert April 8th 2025. An opioid, a long acting benzo analogue, and two tranquilizers. This substance has caused complex overdose and prolonged sedation in #qathet #powellriver #drugalert Stay safe and try not to use alone xo

qathet Coalition to End Homelessness is doing some amazing work in #qathet #powellriver Housing is a human right, and we all need access to food, shelter, and community connection. #qCEH The coalition has been feeding people every night at 6pm, and supporting with supplies since the shelter closure.

Photographer Jackie Dives has published an overview of the Downtown Eastside, "a community that refuses to give up on what’s right." She notes: "We now have over a century of data that proves prohibition and criminalization do not decrease drug availability or drug use." More: tinyurl.com/6a5aut8d

The shelter has closed and with it, access to safer place to sleep, two meals a day, laundry, services, and more. Share, care, donate, + sign up to make a meal via the Meal Train: www.mealtrain.com/trains/zz02gr. In need of a meal: 7030 Alberni St at 6pm daily. [email protected]

Apparently I haven’t learned it yet either lol

A transformed VANilla latte 😂 #acab #dulfsaveslives #vandu #dulf

Just loitering around in #porthardy getting ready to host back to back Walk with Me story walks with #islandhealth #toxicdrugcrisis #livedexperience

"Dr. Kellerhals & other doctors working in #addictions were promised #overdoseprevention sites in hospitals by former health minister Adrian Dix 11 months ago. The promise remains unfulfilled" #OPS #addiction #mentalhealth #healthcare #VancouverIsland #BC www.campbellrivermirror.com/local-news/c...

This is wild. #ACAB

I found xylazine in our local supply in #qathet in April 2023. Since then, we have seen an increase in its presence, as well as Medetomidine (an even stronger tranq) in recent months. If they put it under the CDSA it won’t stop it, we will just see new and more potent ones emerge. #drugchecking

Our monthly YouthCAT meeting is next week! Join us on Wednesday, March 26th, from 6-8pm at the Community Room in the Library and learn what we're working on to make qathet better! There will be snacks, honoraria ($$), peer support, opportunities to do things, harm reduction supplies, and more!

Brain injury after non-fatal overdose: A rising concern. This webinar hosted by CATIE provides an overview of emerging evidence on overdose-related brain injury, including how brain injury occurs, its effects on cognitive and physical functioning, and how common it is. www.catie.ca/brain-injury...

"It's information that we wouldn't have without drug checking" - public health researcher González Nieto. "It's sometimes appalling for me to imagine, you know, what we would do without any kind of data that's coming actually from the ground."

The qathet Coalition to End Homelessness is working to get some supports in place for people impacted by the shelter closure. We are a group of community members who volunteer our time to organize and advocate for emergency responses and mutual aid supports for unhoused community members/ neighbors

Our local shelter is closing indefinitely next week. Not only will this result in more people having to sleep outside, it also means a loss of 2 meals per day which are provided at the shelter 7 days a week. #qathet #tlaamin #powellriver

VCH has issued an alert for the #qathet #tlaamin #powellriver region. Our results from confirmatory PSMS detected carfentanil in 4 different samples. This comes after a few carfentanil alerts in the lower mainland over the last couple weeks. It got up here quick. #ruraldrugchecking #dontusealone

CISUR scientist Jaime Arredondo was part of this @drugpolicy.org panel on Understanding the current drug supply.

Shout out to one of my favorite go-to citations to myth-bust that touching fentanyl can cause an overdose. In a lab, these researchers accidentally spilled fentanyl solution on a hand with a cut on it. No overdose. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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...

I will never be grateful for a Mark Carney or a David Eby. Being better than Polievre or Rustad is a low and depressing bar for sure. God fucking damn.

#VCH has issued a drug alert for #qathet #powellriver Get your drugs tested in town at the OPS, or in Tla’amin at ʔaǰɩmɛt Harm Reduction. Try not to use alone, always carry naloxone, and take care of each other! #harmreduction #drugchecking

Medetomidine is back in #qathet This down was reported post use to be highly sedating and long acting. Medetomidine has the capacity to contribute to complex overdose. #drugchecking

10 Ontario consumption sites set to close by March 31, 5 of them in Toronto. Leaders and policy makers don’t seem to understand that many more people will die without these life saving services. Locally in #rural #remote #qathet #BC our OPS now closes at 6pm, and the shelter is closing March 26.

ʔaǰɩmɛt Harm Reduction is launching its 6 part community engagement and education series in April! Two sessions in April and then once a month until September. You’re invited to come learn about indigenous harm reduction and FTIR drug checking as we expand our programs and services #drugchecking

New paper on BC's illicit drug supply from several CISUR researchers! "The study highlights the volatility in the supply and mentions the necessity for a safer opioid supply and robust drug checking methodologies to address the challenges posed by the heterogenous market."

In Everyday Moments of Crisis, Intimacy and Care. Jackie Dives photographs people surviving grief and the toxic drug supply. by @jackie-wong.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Culture/2025... via @thetyee.ca #ToxicDrugCrisis #photojournalism

🧵 With Edmonton setting new drug poisoning records, the Alberta government has for years been hiding a report that would have informed preventative solutions. Here are some of its key findings. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/edmonton-set...

DULF’s 4th paper has been released on participant perceptions of the impacts of a de-medicalized safer supply program. Survey respondents reported: Less drug use (64%) Less reliance on street supply (87%) Fewer overdoses (90%) Read more substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We at ajimet Harm Reduction have been invited to provide an info session at our public library in #tlaamin #powellriver #qathet Since I’ve been exiled from meta, I gotta share updates and events somewhere! LOL #harmreduction #drugchecking #FTIR saving lives one sample at a time xo

New episode at @crackdownpod.bsky.social

There are a number of FN communities who have declared a state of emergency related to the toxic drug crisis. Now Homalco has declared. Unfortunately, surveillance and punitive measures are not the solution to the problem. Harm reduction, safe supply, access to culturally safe treatment is necessary

A leaked report shows that Vancouver's mayor wants to make Vancouver a 'sunset community' where Native people aren't welcome. He has a plan to deport Indigenous residents of the city to their "home communities". www.bcafn.ca/news/regiona...

"Heroin is a main character in the book–but neither a hero nor a villain." First book review is out for my book "Crackdown: Surviving & Resisting the War on Drugs". Carrie Lou Hamilton did an amazing job. Book/audiobook out April 15-preorder anywhere. #booksky www.talkingdrugs.org/review-crack...

I really upset the metaverse 😂 after 18 years it’s like I never existed on fb or insta, they turned me into a ghost 👻 #permanentlydisabled #harmreduction and #drugchecking violates the community guidelines and gets a permanent ban, but hate speech is no problem 🤷‍♀️ Hello Bluesky!