Mastodawn

“In a recent public post by Joe Louttit, a community leader and organizer of the Peacekeeping program, an estimated $3.5 million street value of drugs and alcohol was prevented from entering the community this past year.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #Attawapiskat #Ontario #addiction #harmreduction

https://www.windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/every-step-towards-future-counts

Every step towards the future counts

By Xavier KataquapitI’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues, trauma and pain that our people carry. It took me many years to understand that these programs or services are not a one-stop service or a single program that will provide instant resolutions or cures for the issues that plague our people. Much of the trauma that our people deal with are issues that affect our communities across generations.

Windspeaker.com

Fenris Lorsrai 2d ago

Commented on thread on HIV testing at events, but here in main timeline for easy access.

Your local harm reduction service WANTS to come to the event you're running. A convention, parade, music festival, LARP, whatever! They want to reach more people that might never come to their location! Comp them a table at event.

Drop them an email or call with "I'm running an event on X date, Y location. I expect Z attendees. The demographic is Q." and they will likely show up ready to do STI snap tests, provide drug test kits for drinks, condoms, train people on NARCAN, and tell folks about support programs in area. Possibly even vaccinations, depending on population. Or clean needles. For free!

What services the group offers vary by region, but any midsize metro has one of more of them because prevention really is the best strategy.

It's part of their core services & getting out in public just requires inviting them in, like vampires. They are stealing your blood, afterall. :P

They also know how to do all that confidentially and securely. Harm reduction also meets people where they ARE & tries to nudge them towards one step to better health, not "stop doing all these things NOW". Have safer sex, check your drugs for fentanyl, here's NARCAN in case someone ODs. Keep folks alive & making better choices each day based on their risk tolerance.

Some may even have a full mobile set up in a van to do even more tests!

If they have a scheduling conflict and can't come, they often are happy to provide you with free condoms, drug test kits, brochures, and sharps containers.

If you're running an event and don't have a sharps container in the bathrooms.... consider grabbing some from the harm reduction folks. It helps keep everyone safe! (your local visiting nurse group may also be willing to give you sharps containers for free or wholesale cost) #eventplanning #conventions #harmreduction #STItesting #HIVtesting

sometimes 3d ago

"the United Nations Human Rights Committee released a report rebuking Canada’s narrow interpretation of the “right to life” and called for action to save and protect lives....

The UN Committee expressed surprise during the review when Canada’s delegation stated that Canada does not accept the Committee’s authoritative findings that the right to life imposes “positive obligations” on governments to ensure access to essential health care, address homelessness, the drug toxicity crisis, or climate change".

https://drugpolicy.ca/un-committee-rejects-canadas-position-calls-for-action-on-preventable-deaths/

#HarmReduction #OnPoli #ABpoli #CanPoli

UN Committee Rejects Canada’s Position, Calls for Action on Preventable Deaths - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, Canada | March 24, 2026—Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Committee released a report rebuking Canada’s narrow interpretation of the “right to life” and called for action to save and protect lives. Human rights groups, including the National Right to Housing Network (NRHN), the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC), the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), and HIV Legal Network […]

Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

Elle $0/$112 Due April 7 3d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116320613771064622

Boosting please help

Just $40 more left for march
we are so so close

March: 40$ to go for food and meds
April: 450$ monthly goal

I was banned from bluesky on 3/29 which is how i got most of my mutual aid needs met. Im basically screwed now. 🙃 im so scared

Venmo d_fay
Paypal peach77

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #disabled #spoonie #helpfolks #helpfolkslive2026 #chronicillness #bluesky #harmreduction #lgbtq #lesbian #support #helpneeded #kofi #crowdfund

Psychedelic Institute Project 3d ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9834329/ #ketamine #psychedelics #ketaminetherapy #psychedelictherapy A unified model of ketamine’s dissociative and psychedelic properties (Marguilho, et al, 2022) #harmreduction #mentalhealth

Elle $0/$112 Due April 7 3d ago

$80 left to cover March! 🆘️
No support from family, cant work or drive.

I need my meds and food asap 😩 any little bit helps! Even 5$ helps a lot.

Venmo venmo.com/d_fay
Paypal paypal.me/peach77
Kofi https://ko-fi.com/ellespeaks

#fundraiser #disabled #helpfolkslive2026 #helpsky #MAboost #queer #lesbian #spoonie #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #chronicillness #lgbtq #sapphic #helpfolks #help #crowdfund #support #harmreduction #venmo #paypal #kofi

CBC Calgary 4d ago

Province plans to cut Calgary's downtown outreach team as supervised consumption site closes
Operating in Calgary's Beltline neighbourhood, the Safeworks Connect team has been relied upon for years to respond to overdoses, distribute harm reduction supplies, educate, and connect people to health and housing programs. The province plans to shut it down at the end of June.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/safeworks-connect-closing-chumir-9.7143452?cmp=rss

sometimes Mar 25

Wonder if University of Calgary will hand out harm reduction kits this year? Given how things are going in Alberta, I wouldn't be surprised if Danielle Smith resurrected "paraphernalia" laws that border on banning even this kind of thing. Good thing she's an alums of UofC...

#HarmReduction #ABPoli #Alberta