A-Dub 🥝17h ago

hope it lives up to its promise.

"A Toronto non-profit says it's launched the province's first harm reduction program for adults with intellectual disabilities. ... Staff say what makes the program unique is that it's been co-created with people who have lived experience — known as lived experience associates — to ensure it's meeting the community's unique needs."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/harm-reduction-people-with-disabilities-9.7131651

#HarmReduction #PWUD #PWID #Toronto

New Toronto harm reduction program supports people with intellectual disabilities | CBC News

A Toronto nonprofit says it's launched the province's first harm reduction program for adults with intellectual disabilities. Safer Steps My Way aims to help people who struggle with substance use and have historically faced barriers to safe, stigma-free support.

CBC
CBC Toronto1d ago
New Toronto harm reduction program supports people with intellectual disabilities
A Toronto nonprofit says it's launched the province's first harm reduction program for adults with intellectual disabilities.
Safer Steps My Way aims to help people who struggle with substance use and have historically faced barriers to safe, stigma-free support.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/harm-reduction-people-with-disabilities-9.7131651?cmp=rss
sometimes1d ago

The Alberta government announced yesterday, March 20th, that it is closing Safe Consumption Sites (SCSs) in Calgary and Lethbridge.

The decision was based on an illegitimate study conducted by the Alberta government, and published under false pretenses in the journal "Addiction".

On March 13, Ford's Ontario government revealed (and announced on March 16) that they would be pulling funding from remaining provincially supported SCSs based on this one study.

On March 18, Manitoba premier Wab Kinew also walked back his decision to fast-track an SCS in Winnipeg seemingly based on the study.

And, MP Brad Redekopp demanded that Saskatchewan SCSs, which have never received provincial funding, have their federal licenses revoked based on the study also.

https://drugdatadecoded.ca/breaking-alberta-government-to-announce-calgary-and-lethbridge-supervised-consumption-site-closures/

#HarmReduction #AcademicChatter #Alberta #ABpoli #Ontario #OntPoli #Saskatchewan #CDNpoli #FediLaw

BREAKING: Alberta government to announce Calgary and Lethbridge supervised consumption site closures

Nine days after it announced a fraudulent study published by its staff, the Alberta government is moving quickly to dismantle what remains of supervised consumption services in the province.

Drug Data Decoded
Arbutus 🇨🇦3d ago
c/o @violetblue Harm reduction workshop for sex workers and allies operating out of California, Sa 21 and Su 22 March, includes a section on COVID and other airborne infections. Admission by donation https://bayareaworkerssupport.org/events/cyberspring #harmReduction
🌷Spring 2026 Skill-Share Series🌷 — BAWS

Knowledge is power, as they say. Well, we can’t think of anything more powerful than SWers who know what’s up. This March 21st and 22nd, BAWS kicks off our spring season with our first programming offering of the year— Our CyberSpring skill-share virtual workshop series is here ! We are so exci

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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦3d ago

If you follow harm reduction or want to know more about the topic, you might enjoy this Medium article I wrote about how moralized narratives hurt recovery.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SubstanceUse #Substances #Drugs #Health #Healthcare #Canada #Politics #CdnPoli

https://medium.com/@thomas.embree/mental-illness-personal-crises-substance-use-a76a49e79a71

Mental Illness, Personal Crises & Substance Use

Why Moralized Narratives Hurt Recovery

Medium
sometimes4d ago

120 years in prison? Opioids were legal, bought, and sold openly by mostly everyone until they were criminalised in 1808 (Canada) and 1875 (US).

https://globalnews.ca/news/11735981/sebastien-rollin-montreal-opioids/

#HarmReduction #Montreal

Montreal man facing up to 120 years in U.S. prison over opioid trafficking charges

A 49-year-old Montreal man could spend the next century in a U.S. prison after being charged in an opioid trafficking probe, American authorities say.

Global News
Psychedelic Institute4d ago
Researchers write “A sample of 11,441 patients was analyzed, At-home, telehealth-supported ketamine administration was largely safe, well-tolerated, and associated with improvement in patients with depression. Strategies for combining psychedelic-oriented therapies with rigorous telehealth models, as explored here, may uniquely address barriers to mental health treatment.” https://psychedelicmentalhealth.net/psychedelic-therapy-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-ketamine-context-competencies/ #ketamine #mentalhealth #psychedelics #ketaminetherapy #harmreduction #psychedelicinstituteproject
Psychedelic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: On Ketamine, Context, and Competencies in "Assisted-Psychotherapy”

There are many tools to help a psychotherapist help clients learn to speak the language of cognitive behavioral therapy, especially tools which may help facilitate therapeutic alliance, including, but not limited to telehealth.

Psychedelic Institute - Psychedelics in Mental Health
A-Dub 🥝4d ago

Conservative provincial politicians want this outcome, it's by design.

"Advocates fear the looming closure of the Niagara Region's sole safe drug consumption site will result in a spike in overdose deaths and cases of blood-borne infections such as hepatitis C and HIV."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/overdoses-safe-drug-consumption-funding-cuts-9.7132358

#SCSSaveLives #HarmReduction #OnPoli

‘There will be people who die’: Advocates speak out as Niagara’s only safe drug consumption site faces closure | CBC News

Advocates fear the looming closure of the Niagara Region's sole safe drug consumption site, in St. Catharines, Ont., will result in a spike in overdose deaths and cases of blood-borne infections such as hepatitis C and HIV.

CBC
IHateFireworks5d ago

Y'all, I am so excited that this article exists.

*dramatic stage lighting--
#Scarleteen put up an article about negotiating COVID risk from an STI framework.
*choirs of angels begin singing

https://www.scarleteen.com/read/what-would-it-look-if-we-treated-covid-sti

I haven't seen a lot of discourse on how to talk productively about COVID risk, I've mostly seen the relationship tension from disagreements and the corporate shill angle (i.e. gaslighting about the risk itself).

#HarmReduction peeps also pls take a look

­What Would it Look Like if We Treated COVID Like an STI?

Did you know you can apply safer sex practices to COVID-cautious choices, as well as other respiratory infections?

Scarleteen
ClareBear 💚 5d ago

Credit where it is due (assuming there are no fishhooks)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/589917/first-ever-substance-harm-action-plan-unveiled

#nzpol #drugpolicy #harmreduction #healthcare

First-ever substance harm action plan unveiled

The NZ Drug Foundation is welcoming the plan, saying it has many interventions the sector has long called for.

RNZ