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importantly, it is not a real dx, even per BC Coroners Service, Alberta Coroner, Canadian Psych Association, the ICD-10, DSM-5, WHO, AMA, APA, US Natl Association of Medical Examiners,US College of Emerg Physicians & others. Many orgs never have had a stance or policy on a non-existent condition

Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth Extended release buprenorphine is not

Last week, BC NDP Premier Eby made misleading claims about Sublocade.

A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable.

Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...

It is a choice to keep drugs unregulated. The government chooses to prohibit drugs, which allows for black markets to flourish, which creates a more potent and dangerous unregulated supply. The government could regulate drugs and undercut the unregulated market, but chooses not to.

POWER members responded to at least four drug poisonings in a 2.5 hour window on Nov 19.

The driver of these drug poisonings is prohibition. The unpredictability of the drug supply is entirely predictable — the federal, provincial & municipal policies in place ensure it bsky.app/profile/andr...

BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.

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Incarceration is Not Compassionate Care — Moms Stop The Harm By Sarah Auger Sarah gave this talk at at Community Conversations: Drug Policy Alternatives for Alberta , on April 2, 2024. On December 19, 2022, I received the call that would tear apart the v...

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BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.

some of us wrote this essay today before the announcement: themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b... | a lot of people brought attention to the violence of a bill similar to this in 2020: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020... | today's announcement was more sinister though

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Agree or disagree, I hope people realize that this is just a piece of paper with Government logo on it; it's not legislation, it's not a peer-reviewed paper or clinical guideline; it's one random dudes thoughts and it's frankly insulting to assume that clinicians should accept it at all

i feel that. i worry too, not only about families, but also healthcare practitioners—i can foresee so much conflict about what constitutes best clinical practice. further cracks will be created in this already broken and violent system. and of course youth who use drugs will be most impacted.

the announcement was an incredibly incredibly disturbing misrepresentation of almost everything that was discussed. everyone deserves so much better. thanks for this thread

There is a lot here in this analysis. I am paying close attention to the removal of "deemed consent" from the Mental Health Act.

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BC NDP Aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.

NEW analysis in The Mainlander:

The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership.
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Swept off Lewis Street and Into North Cowichan’s Wetlands A street sweep on November 17 during a disease outbreak forced unhoused residents into Cowichan’s wetlands. 80 overdoses followed in the next 24 hours.

On Nov 17, North Cowichan displaced ~75 unhoused residents from Lewis Street encampments to a marsh without the promised Ramada shelter open or toilets available.

NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social

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B.C. group pushes back against involuntary care, saying it will criminalize people | Globalnews.ca The B.C. government announced last week that if passed, the bill's current language around involuntary care would make it clearer and more concise.

"We can’t prescribe or police our way out of this crisis. We need housing, we need a regulated, safer supply, we need to bolster our voluntary treatment options:"
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B.C. group pushes back against involuntary care, saying it will criminalize people | Globalnews.ca The B.C. government announced last week that if passed, the bill's current language around involuntary care would make it clearer and more concise.

"We can’t prescribe or police our way out of this crisis. We need housing, we need a regulated, safer supply, we need to bolster our voluntary treatment options:"
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“Think of that, a third less calls,” she said. The number of calls in which firefighters have had to wait for police to arrive and secure a scene were down by 25 per cent, she added. “These results demonstrate that operation barrage is effectively reducing the demand on our resources,” said Fry of

Karen Fry's promotion of an intervention that makes the crisis worse just two months ago to city hall—we're nearly ten years into a public health emergency...
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Legal safer supply programs inaccessible to most, B.C court hears Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were convicted of trafficking earlier this month for having operated an illicit-drug compassion club

As DULF's compassion club was forced to close, its operators worked to get its 43 members legal Rx alternatives, successfully transitioning only 2 or 3 – a point that piqued the interest of the judge, who asked about the barriers to safer supply programs
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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.

www.policeoversight.ca/p/harm-reduc... @nurseranger.bsky.social

BC NDP aim to evade involuntary treatment Charter Challenge by amending consent out of Mental Health Act As Eby said “this is about immunizing and protecting healthcare workers”. Removing section 31 makes abundantly clear that patient consent is irrelevant.

BC NDP-led amendments to “strengthen access” to a program that people can only be forced to enter and is currently facing a Charter challenge: involuntary treatment:
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"strengthening access" to apprehension and indefinite detention
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no one involved in this case disputes DULF has saved many lives. shutting down initiatives to prevent consumption of poisoned drugs leads to more preventable deaths. sad to see the law used as a cudgel to justify killing people through government inaction & indifference

an unexpected and momentary sense of hope listening in to the people's filibuster against the 2026 budget that threatens to hollow out the city further

three minutes of austerity slogans gave me brain drain

Vancouver’s Cop City Budget Next year’s municipal budget is set to allocate half a billion dollars toward policing.

the cop city budget

vancouver is set to spend half a billion on policing next year (probably more): www.policeoversight.ca/p/cop-city

global news reporter paul johnston puts a dart behind his ear to complete his disguise to buy some drugs he later gives to the police

kind of thought he deserved an award for this amazing disguise he put together tho no?

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.

for anyone stumbling across this thread @brishti.bsky.social covered the case accurately for @pressprogress.ca:

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17000 people have died, there have been a number of nonfatal overdoses that we will never be able to capture linked to many forms of social harm, and a public emergency that has lasted nearly ten years now. We deserve better than what has been normalized & deemed acceptable in stories like this.

may seem fair cuz our standards are low—Judge specifically called out backbenchers who contribute to outcry & Global uncritically airs a new conspiracy from the same MLA; using unfounded drug panic terms, like "hard drugs;" implying that there was BCNDP support but they didn't show up? All in 2 mins