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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.
"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 · 2mo 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...
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HRNA_AIIRM@hrna.bsky.social · 3mo 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
Supervised 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...
The story isn’t that an #Alberta minister “admitted he was wrong”. It’s that he spread a false claim about supervised consumption sites—despite zero recorded deaths at these facilities—manufacturing consent to shutter life-saving services. #abpoli #cdnpoli edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/04/28/a...
Alberta minister admits supervised consumption claim was wrong
An Alberta minister who appeared to make a bombshell revelation last week in the legislature about the dire state of the province’s supervised consumption sites is now admitting he was wrong. Critics ...
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Flawed overdose prevention study cited by Sask. government 'dangerous,' critics say 'The government marked its own homework,' nurse says of Alberta study www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Overdose prevention study cited by Sask. government 'dangerous' and 'flawed,' critics say | CBC News
A study that has been widely criticized as flawed, biased and misleading is being cited by the Saskatchewan government as a reason there's no urgency to replace the services Prairie Harm Reduction pro...
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SCOOP 🧵 A snitch law passed by provincial governments twenty years ago has been retooled by the Alberta government for use against nonprofit agencies it seeks to defund. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...
Unprecedented, "coordinated hit" by Alberta government used snitch law to spy on Turning Point Society
The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act allows any citizen to trigger an investigation of a neighbour for drugs on the property. Since its adoption across Canada two decades ago, the snitch legis...
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BC Health Experts Say the Province Has Solutions to the Toxic Drug Crisis. 10 Years In, Policies Still Ignore The Evidence.
“We have this bizarre dichotomy where everybody agrees that this is a health issue, but the majority of the resources…goes to law enforcement.”
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“We will emerge into a landscape of rational drug policy, even if it remains pretty dark until we get there.” Victoria-based addiction medicine specialist Dr. Ryan Herriot writes. #ToxicDrugCrisis #bcpoli
Reflecting on 10 Long Years of BC’s Toxic Drug Crisis | The Tyee
I’ve spent my career working in the public health emergency. It’s time for a full embrace of evidence-based drug policies.
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This first line in this article "It was 2014 when I first heard of fentanyl entering the unregulated drug supply." feels like a stab in my heart. It was in 2014 that I learned about the contaminated supply by losing my youngest son Danny to it. The day that made me an accidental advocate.
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 4mo ago“We will emerge into a landscape of rational drug policy, even if it remains pretty dark until we get there.” Victoria-based addiction medicine specialist Dr. Ryan Herriot writes. #ToxicDrugCrisis #bcpoli
Ten years into a declared emergency. More than 18,000 deaths. Preventable. Still preventable. “What has become most alarming is not only the scale of loss, but how normalized this crisis has become” Read HRNA’s statement here. #bcpoli www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/04/14/t...
Ten Years In: A Crisis Being Normalized | HRNA/AIIRM
For Immediate Release April 14, 2026 Ten Years In: A Crisis Being Normalized Today marks ten years since British Columbia declared a public health emergency in response to the toxic drug poisoning ...
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🚨#FridayFacts: Evidence shows supervised consumption sites prevent deaths, reduce ER visits, and connect people with care. Closing them is dangerous. Tell Premier Ford to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio... #HarmReduction
Fatally flawed policies based on a flawed study as outlined here “…poor accounting for confounding service changes, potential model misspecifications, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.” odprn.ca/research/pub...
Critical Appraisal of “Healthcare utilization and mortality after overdose prevention site closure” - ODPRN
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Thank you for speaking out for life and for the evidence in support of consumption sites.
We are creating space in the Naming a Crisis exhibit for healthcare workers to participate by sharing messages about their experiences in the crisis.
Manitoba’s Bill 48 empowers police to target individuals of perceived drug intoxication and detain them for 3 days in solitary confinement. How does the expansion of involuntary detention and forced detox, made possible through Bill 48, deepen colonial harm? yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/care-no...
Ontario is facing a #ToxicDrugCrisis — and losing supervised consumption services will only make it worse. Your voice matters more than ever. Urge Premier @fordnation to reverse this decision: RNAO.ca/policy/actio...
An important read! “Johnson says their donor-driven model provides stability, enabling the site to focus on “doing what we know is right and needed,” rather than chasing shifting government priorities.” #onpoli #cdnpoli #harmreduction www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/03/31/h...
How Ontario's three private drug consumption sites are surviving
As funding cuts loom, Ontario's public drug consumption sites may shut down, leaving a donor-funded system to fill the gap
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Open Letter: Defunding of all Supervised Consumption Sites in Ontario “Effective law and policy must be grounded in evidence, and shifting funding from SCS elsewhere is not supported by evidence or the public at large.” #onpoli #cdnpoli drugpolicy.ca/open-letter-...
OPEN LETTER RE: DEFUNDING OF ALL SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITES IN ONTARIO - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
March 31st 2026 The Honourable Doug Ford, MPPPremier, Minister of Intergovernmental AffairsVia email: premier@ontario.ca | doug.fordco@pc.ola.org The Honourable Sylvia Jones, MPPDeputy Premier, Minist...
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Attention AB nurses. Please sign the petition and send a letter to the Premier & Minister of Mental Health & Addiction (MLA Rick Wilson). Thank you to @hrna.bsky.social for the letter template & links for sending. Harm Reduction Saves Lives
Petra Schulz@msthpetra.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People cannot access recovery if they are no longer alive.” Thank you @hrna.bsky.social 💜 www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/27/h...
“Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People cannot access recovery if they are no longer alive.” Thank you @hrna.bsky.social 💜 www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/27/h...
Harm Reduction Nurses Association Condemns Decision to Close Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta | HRNA/AIIRM
The government has framed these closures as a shift toward treatment and recovery. This is a false choice. Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People can...
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