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she/her Youth SU & Harm Reduction Advocate • all opinions are my own

[em @emma_lyR]

Call me crazy, but I genuinely believe we need youth specific #harmreduction services and spaces in community #youthsubstanceuse

[karen ward @kwardvancouver]

solidarity with @DULFBC means organizing to operate a compassion club in every community in canada. now.

no one is coming to save any of us
there's just us

https://t.co/PRV0nJfMQf

[Garth Mullins @garthmullins]

Yesterday, Vancouver cops raided DULF & arrested two comrades for the heinous crime of saving lives. They won’t even let us try to save ourselves - they want us dead. https://t.co/rP1PrJagvS

[Garth Mullins @garthmullins]

About 200 people marched to Main & Hastings today to mark #IOAD. "This is where the drug war started," I said, "and this is where we're gonna end it." 📷@alexmdeboer

[em @emma_lyR]

@angwelz Sending big love 💜🫶🏼

[em @emma_lyR]

My whole heart is aching.

#IOAD2023

[Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @MyHarmReduction]

On this International #OverdoseAwarenessDay, I join countless others around the world grieving the unnecessary loss of life due to our prohibitionist policies.

The resulting unpredictable and potent drug supply, combined with our punishing policies, is to blame. #IOAD2023

[em @emma_lyR]

There are many people close to my heart who use drugs, and so I will never stop fighting for justice for all #PWUD. However, relational connection or not, #PWUD have the right to safety, to love, to protection, to life. And so I fight for it all.

#IOAD
#EndTheDrugWar

[em @emma_lyR]

To the co-authors, Brooke Johnson Kianna-Louise Williams Reagyn Brenner Abel Jones thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with the hope of creating better worlds for us all 🫶🏼

Questions can be directed to Emma Rai at [email protected]

[em @emma_lyR]

Liberating & loving youth who use drugs

✨it takes courage to live your dreams
✨it takes courage to manifest your greatness
✨it takes courage to decide to live

believe - Bruno Mali Kidd 🎶

**tagging folks to raise up the good work of the youth who brought this to life**

[em @emma_lyR]

To the participants for their courage, strength, and resistance. Thank you for sharing your worlds so generously with me 🫶🏼

[Garth Mullins @garthmullins]

💔RiP 184 in BC who died in June from lethal drug policy. #necropolitics

[Marcel Rambo @vee9zee]

Can someone point out another area of medicine where you can tell me I have a ‘brain disease’ that can only be cured by a religious intervention and not have your medical license revoked

[Ann Livingston @Annlouiselive]

@peoplefirstrad CMHA’s $900,000 smoke site still has no heater & there is no access to a toilet! This makes NANDU’s much maligned, rudimentary $80,000 site more desirable! How slowly can Nanaimo respond to their Public Health Emergency due to drug poisoning?

[em @emma_lyR]

@TweetsThatCare Appreciate your comments, they really show the complex, layered risks and harms youth face when we fail to provide safe enough harm reduction services

[em @emma_lyR]

Let’s make a quick 🧵 of the many ways youth encounter risk & harm when we don’t provide youth specific harm reduction services:
- risk of OD
- risk of fatal OD
- exploitation
- physical violence
- sexualized violence
- gender based violence
- race based violence

[em @emma_lyR]

This list could go on, feel free to continue adding to it.

Youth have and continue to use drugs and deserve to feel safe in doing so - they deserve youth specific #harmreduction spaces

[em @emma_lyR]

Risks & harms encountered:
- increased risks of housing & food insecurity
- increased risk of child welfare involvement
- increased risk of hospitalization, criminalization