HRNA_AIIRM
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Harm Reduction Nurses Association is a national organization with a mission to advance harm reduction nursing through practice, education, research, advocacy.
We stand in solidarity with our colleagues who are facing unwarranted intrusion into clinical decision making by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Good thing we have the @odprn.bsky.social to lay out the evidence showing why: odprn.ca/wp-content/u... #onpoli #firstdonoharm
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1 min Call to Action - Read and Sign I would say that the self-serving organizing of a small contingent of physicians with financial stakes in medical policy is a serious problem that all people, especially those in medicine, need to stand up against. drugdatadecoded.ca/meet-the-phy...
Meet the physicians stonewalling safe supply: Call to Action
Three years after working to influence federal safe supply policy, several of the same small group of addiction doctors may have manoeuvred the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to place m...
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Harm reduction is under attack. Education is a form of radical resistance. We need more nurses equipped to deliver compassionate, evidence-informed care—not more stigma, punishment, and barriers. Learn about HRNA’s harm reduction course here! www.uvic.ca/health/stori...
Harm reduction course meets growing need for education - Faculty of Health - University of Victoria
For the past three years, a community-driven harm reduction course has been transforming learning for nursing and health students.
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little attention is given by any level of government to how law enforcement generates social disorder through systemic, daily seizures of people's belongings in cities & towns across the province bsky.app/profile/defa...
De Facto Journalism Co-op@defactomedia.ca · 3w agoNEW: Naloxone kits, medications, memorials, board games all end up in the trash, unhoused people and advocates say. Read Part 2 of our series on bylaw enforcement and unhoused residents' possessions in Victoria. www.defactomedia.ca/unhoused-peo...
Also, I just subscribed to @defactomedia.ca and you should too! I paid for the cheapest subscription, which apparently means I am feeding @brishti.bsky.social’s bunny for the next year. www.defactomedia.ca#/portal/
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Non-profit investigative journalism that shines a light on systems of power and abuses of rights and authority
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When someone’s basic survival necessities are taken from them, then tossed out in a landfill, the likelihood of irreparable harm skyrockets. But it also signals to all those deprived of housing and forced into the margins that their lives do not matter.
Wow. Just wow. EXCLUSIVE: Victoria denied trashing people's new tents. So we tracked them with AirTags Exceptional journalism from @defactomedia.ca, @brishti.bsky.social and @mikegraeme.bsky.social—everyone needs to read this article. #bcpoli #Victoria www.defactomedia.ca/newsletter/e...
EXCLUSIVE: Victoria denied trashing people's new tents. So we tracked them with AirTags
We investigated where items actually end up after being seized from unhoused locals
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🚨FACTS: Supervised consumption sites: ✅prevent deaths ✅reduce ER visits ✅connect people with care. Closing them is dangerous. EVERYONE: Urge Premier Ford to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio... #HarmReduction
Join us Oct. 5 from 12-1pm PT| 3-4pm ET for a conversation exploring the judgement, legal arguments, political context, and what this decision might hold for the future of drug policy in Canada. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @crackdownpod.bsky.social @thetyee.ca
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition@candrugpolicy.bsky.social · last mo.DULF WINS. Today, the BC Supreme Court found the criminal law used to arrest and convict DULF co-founders Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx unconstitutional. Read our full press release: drugpolicy.ca/bc-supreme-c... @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour residential school Survivors, their families and communities, and the children who never returned home. We also reaffirm our commitment to resisting anti-Indigenous racism and residential school denialism.
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Today is Overdose Awareness Day. We have lost thousands and thousands of British Columbians to the drug poisoning crisis. These are our coworkers, our neighbours, our friends and family. #BClab
💜 On #IOAD, we remember too many lives cut short by overdose, and refuse to accept this loss as ‘inevitable’. Punitive policies fuel risk & push people away from care. →Scale up harm reduction. →Decriminalise. →Invest in community care. →Confront Prohibition. #SupportDontPunish #EndOverdose
Today is International Overdose Awareness day. Our mayor has shut down an overdose prevention site in an area that has the 2nd highest rate of toxic drug overdoses and deaths in the city. His costly plebiscite will increase stigma and the likelihood of fatal overdoses.
Victoria advocates call for change as B.C. marks 10 years of toxic drug crisis “The emergency is not over,” Ranger said. “We have simply decided to look away from much of the suffering.” #bcpoli #cdnpoli #IOAD #harmreduction vicnews.com/2026/08/27/v...
Victoria advocates call for change as B.C. marks 10 years of toxic drug crisis - Victoria News
A gathering on the 1000 block of Pandora will feature a community barbecue, cultural activities and other events
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SCOOP It took nearly two years, but I finally obtained 650 pages of internal correspondence detailing the steps Health Canada took to disappear the Expert Advisory Group reports on medicalized safe supply and compassion clubs. drugdatadecoded.ca/how-health-c...
Anatomy of a hush-up: How Health Canada buried the safe supply expert reviews
After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medic...
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RIP to Filter Mag (@filtermag.bsky.social). We’re losing one of the most important voices in harm reduction journalism. At a time when mis- and disinformation increasingly shape public policy, Filter consistently chose truth-telling. I’ll miss you. #HarmReduction filtermag.org/a-statement-...
A Statement About Filter
Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.
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"A regulated alternative to the toxic drug supply. Accessible, low-barrier supervised consumption services that respond to people’s needs. Timely, evidence-based, and culturally safe treatment for anyone who seeks it. Safe, affordable, and accessible housing." bcgreens.ca/lower-death-...
BC Greens: Lower death toll should not reduce government action on toxic drug crisis
VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Green Caucus has issued a statement following the recent BC Coroner’s report on deaths due to overdose: “It’s been over ten years since the toxic drug […]
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👀👀 “The course served both as a corrective to prior stigma-laden training and as a catalyst for deeper engagement with HR values and evidence-based practices.”
HRNA_AIIRM@hrna.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣 New 📣 “Exploration of a Harm Reduction Course: Insights into Course Development and Delivery” This study shows that harm reduction education helps future nurses provide more compassionate and evidence-based care. #HarmReduction #Nurse Check it out here 👇 www.hrna-aiirm.ca/wp-content/u...
📣 New 📣 “Exploration of a Harm Reduction Course: Insights into Course Development and Delivery” This study shows that harm reduction education helps future nurses provide more compassionate and evidence-based care. #HarmReduction #Nurse Check it out here 👇 www.hrna-aiirm.ca/wp-content/u...
There’s still time to register! Don’t miss out. 👇👇
HRNA_AIIRM@hrna.bsky.social · 6mo agoSupervised consumption sites are being closed and defunded across Canada. Join HRNA for a critical conversation with Tara Gomes, Gillian Kolla & Elaine Hyshka on impacts, misinformation, and the risks of policy driven by flawed research. 🗓️ June 11 at 12pm PST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows 'These are all preventable deaths,' says founder of Victoria outreach group #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows | CBC News
More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.
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To all the nurses showing up every day with skill, heart, advocacy, and humanity: you are seen. You deserve better than being asked to carry systems that are being eroded in the name of fiscal responsibility. We should never stop demanding better for our patients, communities, and each other.
Nurses don’t need performative recognition. We need meaningful action on the conditions putting our patients in harm’s way—poverty, the toxic unregulated drug supply, housing insecurity, underfunded healthcare, and burnout treated like a badge of honour.
I want a world where people can access care before they end up in emergency rooms. I want fewer people discharged into homelessness. Fewer preventable drug poisoning deaths. Fewer patients slipping through the cracks. We need leaders willing to address root drivers of harm.
It’s #NationalNursesWeek, and nurses don’t want pizza parties and a week of appreciation. We want a stable public health system. Safe and sustainable nurse-to-patient ratios. Real investment in retention, prevention, public health, and harm reduction. 🧵 #Nurse #nurses #harmreduction #healthequity
On #HarmReductionDay, we honour communities, peer workers and civil society organisations keeping each other alive — often with little to no funding, protection or recognition. #SupportDontPunish
Today, on International Harm Reduction Day, we honour everyone working to keep people alive, safe, connected, and cared for. This work is hard. Many are carrying grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty. But we are stronger together, and none of us do this work alone. #harmreduction
