Drug Strategy Network of Ontario

Established in 2008, the Network supports more than 160 urban, northern, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities with drug strategies across Ontario.

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

19,550 people across Ontario. So many more people left grieving.

By any measure, a real-time, preventable tragedy.
#OnHealth #OnPoli #CdnHealth #CdnPoli

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

@l_stone Not helpful! Unwelcome and unsafe. Contrary to internal advice and recs from CMOH to OACP and so many more, in the midst of, by any metric, a raging public health emergency.

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

@jackhauen Chief Medical Officer of Health, 2024

Recs:
Increase access to integrated harm reduction services for people who use opioids, including:
- Supervised consumption services (including for smoking/inhalation)

P. 63, Balancing Act: An All of Society Approach to Substance Use

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

The case stems from a cop making arrests at an overdose scene after a 911 call.

“The ppl with [Cheryl Delorme] did what we hope anyone would do,” said DJ Larkin of @CANdrugpolicy. Yet, they and she "were arrested for drug possession.”
@dustbobgod reports:
https://t.co/KomcJx1pa7

[Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @CANdrugpolicy]

[WEBINAR] Decriminalization Across Movements: explore the history of criminalization faced by various communities, hear firsthand accounts from those directly affected & examine how grassroots movements & coalitions have worked together.

Register here: https://t.co/dUlqYBJHxi

[ODPRN @ODPRN_Research]

📢Calling Ontario residents ages 18+:

Are you passionate about drug policy, patient engagement, or making a difference in health research?
Join the ODPRN Citizens' Panel and make your voice heard!

https://t.co/qYpwWs3L9X

#CitizenEngagement #HealthPolicy #volunteer

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

Guelph, Hamilton, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa, and Waterloo Region receive funding to #pilot HART Hubs advance of shutting down #proven #CTS sites.

https://t.co/BlcJLyIDXQ

[WRDrugAction @DrugActionWR]

STATEMENT
December 13, 2024

Safer Municipalities Act : Unsafe and Unwelcome
(4 panels)

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

Some details on Ontario's pre-election target - people without homes, plus associated charities and municipalities - c/o @ColinDMello and via this thread:
https://t.co/plemFMEdX2

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: The Ford government unveils it’s encampment plan:
• $75 M for access to alternative accommodation including:
• $50 M to create long term affordable units
$20 M for additional shelter spaces

The premier says the new law would also prohibits the use of illicit drugs in public spaces with fines of up to $10,000 and 6 months in jail for repeat offenders.

#onpoli

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

Bill 223 amounts to “death by legislation” for all CTS sites in Ontario

By @matthewpbarker

[Don Crocock @dcrocock]

https://t.co/DX4aGCCPkt

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

@Alan_S_Hale https://t.co/WeXZQNIpRh

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

@JonSThompson Sounds a little like TBay's existing CTS operation, but with modern, state-of-the-art space, and to be built some years later, maybe.

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

Thanks to Toronto Board of Health for today's Emergency meeting, the intelligent and heartfelt delegations - and the leadership to come #CTS.

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

@EScrimshaw Oh excellent. Didn't catch the lib vote.

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

Eliminating Ontario's #CTS sites is a deadly, deliberate decision affecting all taxpayers. Today we asked the Auditor General to complete a value for money audit today with @WGDrugStrategy and concerned MPPs @MikeSchreiner and @AislinnClancyKC

WATCH: https://t.co/0QVrmksA2Y

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

Eliminating Ontario's #CTS sites is a deadly, deliberate decision affecting all taxpayers. Today we asked the Auditor General to complete a value for money audit today with @WGDrugStrategy and concerned MPPs @MikeSchreiner and @AislinnClancyKC

WATCH: https://t.co/0QVrmksA2Y

[Drug Strategy Network of Ontario @DrugStrategies]

"When the minister says people will not die, that is absolutely not true."

https://t.co/HfNUN15V8B