dawna

Canadian🇨🇦| mother of 4| Zachary’s Mom, forever 31💜|former nurse| she/her| believes in harm reduction and safe supply

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

WELL, WELL, WELL 🤔

A new research paper out of Amsterdam examined which political parties are most likely to spread misinformation and YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT THEY FOUND. (Actually, I bet you can.)

They looked at 32 million tweets from politicians in 26 countries over 6 years, and … drumroll please: “Radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation.“

The study found that misinformation “can be a powerful tool to energize and mobilize a politician’s core supporters by reinforcing existing beliefs, fears, or resentments, or spreading false information that cast political opponents in a negative light, so politicians can strengthen the loyalty, energy and activism of their base.”

Who counts as radical-right populists?
➡️ People who oppose the values and procedures of liberal democracy, such as minority rights, political equality, the rule of law, and separation of powers;
➡️ People who also oppose the essential procedures of democracy, like free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power.
➡️ The people most susceptible to the misinfo? Those who have “low trust in institutions or strong partisan identity.”

Any of this ringing any bells? Don’t be sucked in folks … these people are LYING to you.

CANADIANS DESERVE BETTER!

Read the paper here 🔗:https://t.co/zS8UpK8WWp

#CdnPoli #CANpoli

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@guyfelicella 💔

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

John, I am equally horrified by the absence of quality control and regulations used by organized crime when they produce & sell drugs to British Columbians! 🧵

As well as making drugs that look like toys, did you know that organized crime ALSO (often but not always):

➡️ adds lethal amounts of fentanyl to drugs not sold as fentanyl?
➡️ adds sedatives like benzodiazepines to drugs not labeled as benzos?
➡️ adds veterinary tranquilizers to drugs sold to humans?
➡️ makes and sells counterfeit versions of codeine, percocets, T3s, hydromorphone, etc. using all of the above?
➡️ sells drugs to any age of person with cash to buy them?

Yup. You won’t believe it but organized crime has no self-governing laws that restrict sales to minors!

And despite 50 years of the war on drugs, organized crime has only gotten stronger, and more productive at making & selling unregulated drugs.

Our Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, has published several reports laying out how those issues could be solved or mitigated by REGULATING THE ILLICIT DRUG SUPPLY.

She says government should oversee quality control, ensure drugs are not contaminated, legislate labeling that describes contents and potency, and establish laws that prevent sales and marketing to minors.

(Dr. Henry, like other experts, doesn’t think we should continue to let organized crime poison our citizens or our children.)

Your response to that?

If elected, you promised to fire her, to close overdose prevention sites (where we prevent deaths from all those contaminated drugs), end programs to provide at-risk people with prescription alternatives to the toxic drug supply, and … drum roll …

CONTINUE THE WAR ON DRUGS.

The centerpiece of your drug strategy? Once people’s lives are well & truly effed by those contaminated drugs, they have brain injuries, can’t work, can’t “make decisions for themselves,” THEN you will take action, by locking them up in an old mental hospital.

Great plan 🤯🤯🤯

Read the PHO’s latest report on Alternatives to Unregulated Drugs here 🔗:https://t.co/HmvFNyWmab

#BCpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis

[Mel @melbee4444]

“Methadone clinics are predicated on the idea that the medication they dispense is a privilege, not a right. There is no other area of healthcare where patients are required to demonstrate, on an almost daily basis, that they deserve their medicine.”

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@creeation72 I am sorry for your tragic loss.

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

A year ago today, my son died because of an accidental overdose. He died from Carfentanil and Bromazolam.
I have been absolutely crushed and forever altered by the loss of my son. Zachary will always be loved and terribly missed. #toxicdrugcrisis

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@JoshuaDMShaw 💔

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@Ncanuel1 @dulfsolidarity @DULFBC I wish my son had found these people and their service rather than the poison that took him from us.

[troylana & on 🦋 @troylana.bsky.social @troylana]

Getting 'Voluntary care' is difficult w average wait of 30 days....not to mention the incredible expenses associated w it!😲

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@angwelz Exactly

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

#BREAKING: New research on involuntary treatment for Substance Use Disorder finds forcing people into treatment to promote abstinence … DOESN’T WORK. Within the first two months after discharge, 96.4% of the 1,083 participants had relapsed.

Recovery is HARD. For treatment to work, you have to want it.

I went to treatment and recovery voluntarily more than 12 times, it took me roughly 26 years to accomplish my first year of sobriety … and I relapsed again after that.

Lucky for me, the drugs were not as contaminated, unpredictable and deadly as they are today. So I got that time I needed to figure it out!

Treatment and recovery programs are crucial, but they can’t be forced and they aren’t the only solution.

Read the research here 🔗: https://t.co/X8nSCh134a

#BCpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis #HarmReduction #Treatment #Recovery

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@kwardvancouver I am so sorry

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Some lives matter more than others and drug users lives don't matter much unless they want treatment.

This week we've heard @PierrePoilievre @fordnation and their anti-harm reduction rhetoric towards harm reduction services. 💔

Closing supervised consumption sites will create more drug use in public places and overdose deaths.

"It's like taking a life preserver away from an activity drowning person because you strongly prefer they learn how to swim"

PEOPLE DON'T RECOVER WHEN THEY'RE GONE ‼️#harmreductionsaveslives

[Emily Kidd White @emilykiddwhite]

Some of the best health researchers in the country including @dmwerb & @aydenisaac worked on this peer-reviewed article in the @TheLancet. Read them on the efficacy of safe injection sites, and dismiss the cheap political scapegoating.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Mr @PierrePoilievre. What’s with all these anti-science takes?

I’m grateful to live in a country where we have freedom of expression and freedom to choose medical treatments for ourselves. So I don’t disagree with anyone’s right to refuse vaccines.

But vaccines ARE supported by science, they did & do work in the case of COVID-19, and like I said earlier this week, I don’t understand choosing health care as your profession if you are against advances in medicine, like vaccines. PICK A DIFFERENT CAREER!

FACT:
The average lifespan of Canadians has increased by more than 30 years since the early 1900s - 25 of those years are because of advances in public health, incl:
➡️ Control of infectious diseases
➡️ Healthier environments
➡️ Tobacco control
➡️ Safer and healthier foods
➡️ VACCINES‼️
➡️ HARM REDUCTION‼️

MOST Canadians understand & trust public health, and MOST of us (80%) LINED UP to get COVID-19 vaccines. As a health-care worker, I got mine early, so I could help with the vaccine campaign in the DTES.

THEY WORKED, and they’re still working. Once it was clear they no longer prevented transmission against Omicron variants, the PUBLIC mandates & passports were dropped.

(See graph & peer reviewed analysis below)

Vaccines for health-care workers are still important - they help keep us on the job & less likely to kill patients w/ serious diseases.

You don’t have to take them, but stop acting like public health did us dirty. IT’S RIDICULOUS!

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@JoshuaDMShaw Ridiculous

[ashley fairbanks @ziibiing]

SCOTUS:

[dawna @dawnaferrari]

@JoshuaDMShaw I hate it for you!