Recovery Alberta cancels recovery for 600+ people. If you want treatment in AB treatment jail is your only option. Voluntarily patients may not apply.

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Recovery Alberta closes Edmonton addiction treatment program, drops nearly 600 people from wait list” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli theijf.org/article/reco...

Well said! Needs to be repeated.

Kick out the ambassador, cut ties with Israel, end special operating rights for US tech firms, end all Palantir contracts, cancel all US military procurement, halt military component exports to US, seize up the military industrial complex and isolate the US as a pariah genocide factory.

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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Applying one standard to gambling and another to the toxic drug crisis is inconsistent and reflects poor governance. What a pack of buffoons #ableg

Petra Schulz@msthpetra.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“We know that the best way to deal with the black market is to have a healthy, regulated legal market, and that includes allowing them to advertise.” Dale Nally to justify excessive ads. Why does this not apply to toxic drugs? Regulation is good promotional ads are bad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Overdose calls to paramedics on the rise in several Ontario cities, CBC analysis shows. Opioid overdose calls nearly tripled in Hamilton in early 2026 compared to same period of 2025, by Ariel Tozman www.cbc.ca/news/investi... via @cbcnews.ca #ToxicDrugCrisis

Overdose calls to paramedics on the rise Ontario, CBC analysis shows | CBC Embedded-Only

Non-fatal opioid overdose calls are on the rise in four Ontario cities — nearly tripling in Hamilton in the first five months of 2026. Researchers and social workers suggest the toxic drug supply and ...

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www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... Sing it from the rooftops. "If we are serious about addressing this crisis, we must move beyond punishment and toward evidence-based, compassionate solutions. Anything less is not only ineffective — it is profoundly costly."

Comment: The real cost of displacement and recriminalization

Across Victoria, we are witnessing repeated sweeps of encampments and public spaces.

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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 decisions made by the governments of Alberta and Ontario will put tens of thousands of lives at risk for fatal overdose, increasing health system expenditures and wait-time pressures for an already strained system.” @canadanurses.bsky.social 👏👏 #abpoli #onpoli www.cna-aiic.ca/en/blogs/cn-...

The Harm Reduction Nurses Association Condemns Decision to Close Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta Read our statement here 👇👇👇 #abpoli #onpoli www.hrna-aiirm.ca/2026/03/27/h...

“Removing access to one of the most evidence-based, proven tools available to reduce preventable drug-related deaths and injuries is a reckless choice with clear consequences: more needless suffering.” Thank you for your solidarity @candrugpolicy.bsky.social 💜

Canadian Drug Policy Coalition@candrugpolicy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Closing the last remaining supervised consumption sites in #Calgary & #Lethbridge is a dangerous step backwards with devastating consequences. Together with @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social, we call on the Gov of Alberta to immediately reverse this decision. Read more: drugpolicy.ca/alberta-clos...

‘Mass Death on This Scale Is Incomprehensible’ “Are we going to let [this crisis] continue indefinitely? Because it won’t change by itself” An important read from @kwardvancouver.bsky.social and @michellegamage.bsky.social #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

‘Mass Death on This Scale Is Incomprehensible’ | The Tyee

Overdose deaths are trending down, but BC is still in the thick of a crisis. Here’s what the data tells us.

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When government is silent on data that could save lives, and instead makes deadly politically driven policy decisions, it has blood on its hands. #bcpoly @davidebybc.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social

Doctors for Safer Drug Policy@dsdp.ca · 8mo ago

filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe... “Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.” #bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky

"According to reports from the community, the coalition and a site visit by The Discourse, the sites appear to be surrounded by pooling water and there is evidence that other sections were at one time impacted by rainfall." words to the city from @nurseranger.bsky.social :

@thediscourse.ca · 8mo ago

Island Health and local groups are urging North Cowichan to reconsider "uninhabitable" shelter sites in Somenos marsh. Advocates warn that recent displacements are linked to health risks and a spike in overdoses. They’re calling for safer, accessible alternatives. #NorthCowichan #IslandHealth

The B.C. government is still counting low-barrier housing in its total of “publicly funded substance-use treatment beds.” It’s a practice that drew criticism over a year ago when the IJF first exposed it. Read now: zurl.co/Pa927

Moments like this remind us how fragile and precious life is. May Tumbler Ridge feel the love of a nation wrapping around them.

Your government as stigma-purveyor-in-chief. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli

B.C. won't extend its drug decriminalization project, health minister announces | CBC News

The three-year pilot project, which allowed people to be in possession of small amounts of illicit drugs, began on Jan. 31, 2023, and will expire at the end of this month. The decision has a public po...

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People: the poors are ruining society by sleeping on the street. Me: then house them!! People: not in my community! Me : It's not "your community" it's everyone's! Homelessness is a policy failure, not a moral failure, and this is why we will continue to see people struggle.

Please don't use chatbots for harm reduction advice. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.

"Who on earth gives that advice?"

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If people are homeless, you house them. If they're hungry, you feed them. If they're struggling with addiction, you help them. It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone deserves access to food, water and healthcare services .... EVERYONE.

“We will replace enabling continued drug use for the addicted with providing treatment and a means to recovery,” [Premier] Smith said. She is announcing that she will kill people in public because SHE WANTS TO She is terrorizing the entire neighbourhood, look

Corey Ranger@nurseranger.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“The Alberta government has confirmed it will follow through with a longtime pledge to shutter Calgary’s only supervised drug consumption site.” Alberta’s ongoing policy of social murder. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public. @hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.

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Harm Reduction Nurses Association & Doctors for Safer Drug Policy encourage colleagues to stand down from implementing BC NDP Mental Health Act changes

Proposals to expand so-called “involuntary treatment” for substance use disorders is not a health intervention, it is a political response to fear, misinformation, and moral panic.

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You really have to read both of @kwardvancouver.bsky.social’s skeet’s to get how fucked up this is. I’ll just put the headlines side by side. Displacement and evictions are forms of violence. They result in very observable harms including death and irreparable injury. #bcpoli

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The people who had been living in the encampments were evicted to nowhere

If the government hid a cure for cancer, we’d be outraged. So why not the same when experts backed *safer supply* and the findings were buried? People are dying while evidence gets silenced. This is a political choice. drugdatadecoded.ca/who-killed-t...

Who killed the Safer Supply Expert Reviews?

The Fifth Estate is reporting that two federally commissioned expert reviews provided unanimous support for rapidly scaling up safe supply, including compassion clubs, but the government silenced the ...

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It wasn't just drug users, social scientists, Dr. Henry, BC's Chief Coroner.. turns out Health Canada’s expert committee was also urging the govt to expand safe supply. Instead of listening to science + lived experience, the feds & the BC NDP decided to kill safe supply. shorturl.at/VdxHc

They’re at risk of dying from opioid overdose. The government cut funding that could help them | CBC News

As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts’ advice, scaled bac...

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“We Don’t Need Vengeance — We Need Change”

The Toxic Drug Crisis Is a Health Issue, Not a Crime

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The excrement of a bovine is leaking from many provincial governments these days. Almost as if they don't think our patients are full human beings worthy of respect and autonomy. #cdnpoli #bcpoli bsky.app/profile/alex...

Alexander Quon@alexanderquon.bsky.social · 12mo ago

WATCH: Sask. physician blasts province’s plans for involuntary addictions treatment www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The medical community in Edmonton is mourning Darren Markland who tragically died on the weekend. Last year he allowed @heartforward.bsky.social and I to turn a 🧵 on X into a blog for MSTH. It shows the person he was and how deeply he cared. RIP doc. 💜 www.momsstoptheharm.com/blog/2024/11...

There’s a really bad batch out there right now ... — Moms Stop The Harm

Trigger Warning: This content discusses topics related to drug overdose and death, which may be distressing for some individuals. Please proceed with care and prioritize your well-being. Submitte...

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Outstanding article by @maiasz.bsky.social on what the govt gets wrong about #autism & what autistic people actually need beyond this witch hunt. The blaming women and asking them to “tough it out” makes my blood boil. #SoTiredOfThisShit

Opinion | What the Government Autism Announcement Got So Wrong

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