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INSITEvan Tweets by #HarmReduction Advocates and Do Not Necessarily Reflect the Views of VCH or PHS #insitesaveslives

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Guy Felicella@guyfelicella.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good early morning from the west coast. 🇨🇦 Today I’ll be on CBC Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 6:05am, and then on the Global News Morning Show at 7:10am, to talk about why I’m giving back my proclamation from the Mayor of Vancouver. This isn’t about recognition, it’s about principle.

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · 3mo ago

🧵After quoting doctors & #Addiction specialists naming the effectiveness of #HarmReduction services, @48hills.bsky.social founder writes, “Never mind the evidence, though: San Francisco, after several decades, is moving to abandon harm reduction as a principle in its substance bit.ly/SFMovesBackward

SF backs away from harm reduction and Housing First - 48 hills

Plus: Fighting back against budget cuts to job training, affordability, and public health. That's The Agenda for April 19-26.

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InsiteVan@insitevan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why the people running London's soon-to-close supervised consumption site say it works. Province gives operators 90 days before funding ends on June 13. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Supervised consumption site closure in London will leave gap in services, operator says | CBC News

Ontario's surprise decision to stop funding supervised consumption sites resulting in their closure will leave a gaping hole that will put people's lives at risk, according to the operators of London'...

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InsiteVan@insitevan.bsky.social · last yr.

Despite pledge to expand naloxone access, Trump administration proposal would cut overdose prevention programs www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/h...

Despite pledge to expand naloxone access, Trump administration proposal would cut overdose prevention programs | CNN

The Trump administration has named overdose prevention among its top drug policy priorities, but a preliminary budget proposal that was recently leaked suggests that it would cut about two dozen subst...

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Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · last yr.

Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3892dc4...

Trey Helten, prominent advocate for drug users, has died

As manager at Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society, he helped people schedule medical appointments and find housing – and reversed hundreds of overdoses and trained others to do the same

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

Trey Helten, an advocate for drug users whose willingness to speak searingly about his own battle with #addiction provided hope to many in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside, has died. He was 42, by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · last yr.

The profit motive enters the picture here when Poilievre’s legislation follows the Alberta model (see: Compassionate Intervention Act) in which private delivery of forced abstinence “services” stand in for full-blown incarceration. Aka prison privatization under guise of “treatment.” 1/

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last yr.

Poilievre's actual announcement today: he'd amend the Criminal Code to give police power to charge people for living in a homeless encampment or a tent city He said these are places where "half-dead, contorted bodies lie on the ground on the verge of overdose from fentanyl" Compassionate!! /s

Andrea Woo@andreawoo.bsky.social · last yr.

Trey Helten, an advocate for drug users whose willingness to speak searingly about his own battle with addiction provided hope and inspiration to many in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has died at 42. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Trey Helten, prominent advocate for people who use drugs - remembered for his own battle with addiction - has died

As manager at Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society, he helped people schedule medical appointments and find housing, and reversed hundreds of overdoses and trained others to do the same

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InsiteVan@insitevan.bsky.social · last yr.

People don't judge you': Inside the final days of a safe consumption site in Toronto. The Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre's 2 supervised consumption sites closed last week www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'People don't judge you': Inside the final days of a safe consumption site in Toronto | CBC News

The Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre's two supervised consumption sites closed last week, in light of a new provincial law. In the final days of the Queen Street site, clients and staff sai...

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