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Canada's 'safer supply' patients are receiving staggering amounts of narcotics
How a Small Population Fuels a Black Market Epidemic, Echoing Troubling Parallels in Sweden
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April 2024

Indigenous-informed treatments are needed to stop overdose deaths
Alberta addiction recovery programs rooted in Indigenous tradition offer a recovery-oriented alternative to current programs.
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"Safer Supply" Diversion is a Huge Problem
Dr. Lori Regenstreif, a Hamilton-based addiction physician, explains why Canada's "safer supply" programs are being abused and flooding communities with…
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Watch: Addiction worker estimates 90% of "safer supply" drugs resold on black market
“It’s just… it’s created more addicts," says David McEvoy, an Ottawa-based outreach worker who specializes in overdose prevention.
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How “Safer Supply” Made a West Coast City Unsafe
A public safety advocate in Nanaimo, B.C., explains how "safer supply" fuelled drug abuse and public disorder in his community.
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If “the opposite of addiction is connection” then give us sober spaces to connect.
British writer Emily Tisshaw explains why we need more sober social spaces, even if that requires government funding, to support people in addiction…
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Weapons and illicit drugs have been normalized in some Canadian hospitals
Elenore Sturko, British Columbia's Opposition Critic for Mental Health, Addiction, Recovery, explains how weapons and illicit drugs have become…
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Can we now admit that concerns with safer supply aren't disinfo?
While some government stakeholders have finally admitted that safer supply harms communities in some ways, they’ve decided that this doesn’t matter that…
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“Disastrous results”: BC addiction counsellor says students increasingly addicted to safer supply drugs
Lower prices, mental health issues are factors in teens turning to diverted government-supplied opioids
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Maeve Ellis
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March 2024

How Indigenous communities tackle addiction
Indigenous recovery advocate Earl Thiessen explains how culturally-sensitive treatment, not decriminalization and safer supply, saves lives.
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Downtown Ottawa is chafing under needles and crime
Ottawa City Councillor Stéphanie Plante describes how mismanaged harm reduction programs are distressing low-income residents in her downtown ward.
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72 doctors sign letter blasting "safer supply" in British Columbia
"I think it’s important for politicians to know what a really sizeable proportion of physicians in British Columbia really think about safer supply."
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