A tale of two Ministers of Addictions and Mental Health.
One urgently responding to surges in #overdose in their province—the other concealing overdose data and actively undermining harm reduction in a dual public health crisis.
#ABLeg#abpoli
Meth Use Presentation & Community Consultation presented by @HIVCommLink on August 27th
#ioad2020#overdoseawareness
Eventbrite Link 👇
https://t.co/JAOoyxj0iJ
"So those people who were worried about social disorder in their community have just turned their entire city into an unsupervised consumption site, and people are not going to be anywhere close to getting the help when they are overdosing"
#ableg#abpoli
https://t.co/4YUZNLuyyw
So apparently it's not enough to close a site that safely manages hundreds of overdoses.
It's not enough to sell out vulnerable people.
You also HAVE to do it on August 31, the ONE DAY OF THE YEAR people around the world have to remember those we've lost.
This is unacceptable.
New safe supply opioid dispensing units to be implemented in Dartmouth (NS); London (ON); Victoria (BC), and Vancouver (BC) this month. https://t.co/DlCLxBIhtU
“It’s time to adopt a new legal regime to regulate drugs — their potency, retail sales, warning labels, age limits and other restrictions such as prescriptions.“
https://t.co/RdkDz1q1Ml
Risk has increased across the country, there’s no doubt. Unfortunately, here in #Alberta, we do not get timely access to data.
The #AlbertaModel. Works best when you don’t keep score.
#ABLeg
BC adding 17 new supervised consumption services and 12 inhalation services in response to dramatic spike in ODs during COVID-19. https://t.co/eCgeXQO90w
The biggest news this week is the death of a dedicated and passionate #harmreduction worker in Vancouver – we lost one of our own this week and the entire #DTES is in shock and grieving. Here are this week’s drug stories from around the province…