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🇨🇦 Vancouver, B.C.: What it's like at an Overdose Prevention Site
https://www.straight.com/city-culture/what-its-really-like-at-an-overdose-prevention-site

* addiction: public health, not criminal issue
* overdose prevention sites provide health care, engage vulnerable populations, save lives
* populist politicians (conservatives mostly) target those sites for closure, while demonizing addiction, social-economic precarity, homelessness
* 2024: B.C. Premier David Eby announced B.C. expanding involuntary care << medical, poverty industrial complex

#DTES #DULF

What it's really like at an Overdose Prevention Site

The battle over safe consumption and overdose prevention sites is reaching a fever pitch.

The Georgia Straight

MONTREAL Ask A Punk May 15

DULF BENEFIT GIG + BBQ + RAFFLE

La Sala Rossa, Friday, July 3 at 06:00 PM EDT

https://dulf.ca/

Between August 2022 and October 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front’s Compassion Club and Fulfillment Centre (DULF CC&FC) emerged as a groundbreaking initiative and research endeavor dedicated to combating escalating overdose deaths in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). As the first of its kind, this pioneering model operated as a non-profit, low-barrier, and non-medicalized approach to regulating the volatility of the content of the illicit drug market. It not only built upon existing overdose prevention strategies by providing supervised consumption services but also offered rigorously tested cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, at cost, to users of these substances.

The founders (Eris, Jeremy) are now facing a potential life in prison. In court, final arguments are scheduled for July 13–21.

We are seeking to fund this precarious legal battle against a system that has turned it's back on the many deaths of the fentanyl crisis.

The Bands commence at 8 :

IMPLODERS

Nuke it all music

PSYCHIC ARMOUR

Sick Rock N' Roll for an Ugly Planet

HRT

How to sew police eyelids shut techno

MICKEY DAGGER

Have you ever downloaded a weapon?

GLASS DOLLS

Echos of a memory of a time when ~

BOGEY

Anti gotojailforheroinmusic

BUY A ZINE @ THE GIG OR:

https://heroinmart.com/products/computer-clock-robot-boss-the-zine

Bands, BBQ + Raffle

POSTER BY TAYLOR <3

Reach out to volunteer or help in Raffle, Organization or Donation:

https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donation-form/dulf-legal-aid-ii-the-final-push

signal @freedulf.69

More announcements to follow

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/dulf-benefit-gig-bbq-raffle

Caractacus Potts Jan 30

https://filtermag.org/dulf-constitutional-challenge-health-canada-official/amp/

#DULF Challenge: #HealthCanada
Official Flounders on the Stand

#Harmreduction

DULF Challenge: Health Canada Official Flounders on the Stand - Filter

A senior Canadian bureaucrat struggled on the witness stand to reconcile past statements by the federal government with its claim ...

Filter

The Tyee Jan 28

Health Canada’s witness in the Drug User Liberation Front’s judicial review trial frustrated the judge and highlighted how opaque and frustrating Canadian drug policy can be.

Michelle Gamage reports. #bcpoli #DULF

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/28/Judge-Frustrated-Health-Canada-DULF-Trial/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

‘Very Little Value’: Judge Frustrated by Health Canada at DULF Trial | The Tyee

Justice Catherine Murray said witness Eric Costen appeared to be ‘guessing’ in his responses on the stand.

The Tyee

Columbus - Feeds Dec 11, 2025

What two Canadians can teach us about the United States’ broken drug policy - Jack Shuler

What two Canadians can teach us about the United States’ broken drug policy – Matter News

What Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx did was a legit shot across the bow and a reminder that there are ways to save lives other than arresting people or blowing up boats.

Matter News