I appreciated this conversation.

In this Brief, Veronica Fuentes explores the question, how can harm reduction reflect our traditions of care, mitigate harms, and sustain the life of people we love who use drugs? Read here: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/a-love-...

Agreed in general for sure. Medical professionals also need to integrate a nuanced analysis of power & oppression. We've got a 'chief scientific advisor' psychiatrist in the premier's ear with some very problematic framings.

"The more that we can give people alternatives to toxic drugs, the more that we can give them some stability and some support," she said. "I think from a community's perspective, they would see a lot of changes."

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#bcpoli

Good hat.
#DrawTheLine

I was honoured to talk with @sethdklein.bsky.social & @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social about the interconnections between drug war & the climate apocalypse. It's all necropolitics.

"The findings echo a February 2024 statement from Canada’s Federal Housing Advocate, who described forced encampment evictions, including “street sweeps,” as a #humanrights violation and urged all levels of government to halt the practice."

@victoria.ca @saanichbc.bsky.social

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Louise Vincent, INPUD’s Interim Chair, a long-time Board Member, a respected friend, and a true peer leader in our global movement.

Read more: inpud.net/with-deepest...

Donate your day's wage as a concrete action to fight the war on drugs and help Weaving Our Worlds raise $10,000 in 2 weeks to defend the Drug Users Liberation Front. Why? See link below.

#IOAD2025 #SolidarityForever

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I no longer say that every overdose is a policy failure.

Every overdose is a policy *decision*.

IOAD as complicated grief is a profound understatement.

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When words fail, folks keep finding them. It's a good letter.
#IOAD2025
@davidebybc.bsky.social

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Finally, if you're on Lekwungen territory and looking for ways to mark #IOAD2025, The Docs and The Moms are making space for us to gather on September 1.

#YYJ #YYJEvents #VictoriaBC @dsdp.ca @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social

And it's always a good time to kick some cash over to the Drug Users Liberation Front, who have been fighting for all of us for years and who really need our help to keep the fight going.

dulf.ca/dulf-aid-2/

There are a number of great links here from AVI Health & Community Services which go into more detail about prescribed alternatives ("prescribed safe supply").

We also need real decriminalization, ongoing decolonization, regulation, and de-medicalized options.

avi.org/service/safe...

This short write-up accompanies the above video and was kindly published by CATIE.

www.catie.ca/programming-...

This short video is a couple years old & worth a re-share, IMHO. A lot of misinformation is circulated about prescribed alternatives & this lays out some of the facts plainly. As we approach #IOAD25, it's worth taking the time to understand the many ways #HarmReductionWorks

youtu.be/iRuXM8aS-4U

They’ve been operating since 1988 but need our help now more than ever: www.gofundme.com/f/help-turni...

Disappointed to hear the Alberta government cut funding to Turning Point in Red Deer, the city’s longstanding harm reduction agency. This leaves a big gap in support for people who use drugs and/or are unstably housed in Red Deer. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...

every weekend there's multiple opinion columns in mainstream media about how awful everything is here and how every person here is not really alive just not yet dead but this neighborhood is as close as we'll get on this earth to Sesame Street for fucked up grown-ups and that's a beautiful thing