You don’t have to approve of substance use to support harm reduction. You just have to care whether people live or die.
Harm reduction is risk management, not endorsement.
#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SafeConsumption #SubstanceUse #Drugs #Substances #Health #Healthcare
This private clinic replaced a safe consumption site, which was working.
When it was shut down by Doug Ford, it moved in, and locals immediately began to protest the impact the clinic was having. It closed, only for an identical private clinic to open.
Safe consumption sites work. Private medicine does not. Ford is killing us.
#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SafeConsumption #Ottawa #Ontario #Canada #Politics #Health
A discussion I recorded some months ago about the incredibly important safe consumption sites.. the Ontario governments plan to shut them down is a humanitarian disaster and people will die because of it.
#opoidcrisis #safeconsumption #harmreduction #ottawa #vancouver #onpoli #dougford #canpoli #overdosedeaths
Debunking the Myths: Is Alcohol Good or Bad for Human Health?
#Addiction, #Alcohol, #Dependence, #HumanHealth, #LiverDamage, #MenHealth, #RiskOfCancer, #SafeConsumption, #WomenHealth #Health Alcohol has long been a topic of debate when it comes to its impact on human health. Some studies suggest moderate consumption may have certain health benefits, while others highlight the detrimental effects of alcohol abuse. In this article…. Medical Microbiology & Recombinant DNA…
The ‘overdose’ crisis is really a poisoning crisis brought on by a crisis of houselessness and desperation.
The first solutions are simple: make sure people have a roof, food, support, care.
Stop blaming people for being under the bus when we are the ones who put them there, and for God’s stop throwing people under the bus!
Every person is infinitely and uniquely valuable: let’s start treating each that way.
3/f
Funny thing is that this was never referred to by anyone as an ‘overdose’, but instead as ‘alcohol poisoning’.
Why? Because he had a home.
Somehow - because he had access to people, money, care - he was not blamed for what happened; it was a medical issue rather than a moral failing.
2/
Concordia University associate professor Ted Rutland says the research he’s conducted indicates that no Canadian police department has had its funding reduced since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 came with calls to 'defund the police.'
Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦
Nathanael Newton
Larry Neufeld
micrordt
David Mitchell 
Mitch G