PSA for local people who use drugs: overly strong narcotics have been causing overdoses around Allan Gardens and Moss Park. they might be laced with medetomidine, a veterinary tranquilizer.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/unidentified-narcotic-causing-overdoses-9.7110340
hey Torontonians who use drugs, here is an important safety PSA.
⚠️WARNING⚠️: There is fentanyl going around that looks **exactly** like crack and is extremely strong. People who smoke or share pipes or bowls are at serious risk of overdose.
let's keep each other safer, friends and neighbours ❤️
hey Torontonians who use drugs, here is an important safety PSA.
⚠️WARNING⚠️: There is fentanyl going around that looks **exactly** like crack and is extremely strong. People who smoke or share pipes or bowls are at serious risk of overdose.
let's keep each other safer, friends and neighbours ❤️
hey, people who use drugs.
Medetomidine (also known as rhino tranq), intended for use only in animals, is being found in 80% of fentanyl samples tested by Toronto's Drug Checking Service lately
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/medetomidine-fentanyl-toxic-drug-supply-toronto-9.7083871
for the other old fogeys on here: what a nang is, and why legalisation and regulation would reduce harm by creating a controlled market with safer products
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/10-02-2026/is-new-zealands-nang-use-sizing-up
this is likely to have tragic consequences 😔
The B.C. government is issuing new guidance for physicians treating youth with overlapping mental health and substance use issues. It directs doctors to notify parents and potentially involuntarily detain youth if they're unable or unwilling to seek care themselves.
CBC Fifth Estate obtained internal Health Canada reports that reveal the federal government was advised by its own experts to expand access to a greater range of safe and regulated drugs for people across Canada but that instead, at the height of the opioid overdose crisis, the government’s support for safe supply programs was watered down and eventually ended:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opioid-overdose-crisis-street-drug-government-funding-9.6976562
As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts’ advice, scaled back their support of safe supply programs, an investigation by CBC’s the fifth estate has found.
warning:-
Toronto’s Drug Checking Service found a new synthetic opioid known as cychlorphine in three fake pharmaceutical opioid samples collected in the downtown core and west end recently
Canadian Supreme Court ruling based on the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/supreme-court-good-samaritan-law-9.6952103
A-Dub 🥝
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