Harm Reduction Action Collective (HRAC)

Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use crimi... People and communities in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) have been profoundly impacted by the toxic drug crisis, which has driven a province-wide pu…

read the first peer-reviewed research paper using data P.O.W.E.R. collected and analyzed via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#drugsky #harmreduction @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @hracollective.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social

Demonstration at the Parliament building with people holding signs saying “DULF SAVES LIVES”

Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success" Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.

📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣

But WAIT! Not so fast…
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

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.

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.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

Survey Results from Mayoral Candidates: part 1

#yegcc #yegmunicpalelections #yegelections2025 #yegmayor #yegmunicipalelections2025

join us for an evening of solidarity with our friends at Stop the Stack YYC. Sept 1 2025 | 5pm pst

sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @hracollective.bsky.social

Today, on #SupportDontPunish, we stand in solidarity with people impacted by harmful drug policies — in Canada and around the world.

🔗 Explore more articles and resources: linktr.ee/candrugpolicy

Involuntary treatment for substance use: What healthcare providers need to know!

The evidence does not support involuntary treatment for substance use. 🧵

April sees increase in toxic drug deaths in B.C., as coroner reports 165 fatalities | CBC News The B.C. Coroners Service says April was the first time in six months that more than 160 deaths were recorded due to toxic drugs.

"The ongoing loss of life is not inevitable — it's a consequence of political choices."

- @jervaler.bsky.social , @bcgreens.bsky.social

and other choices are possible.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

At @hracollective.bsky.social's #SupportDontPunish event, @chrisnayler.bsky.social shared how "the drugs gave me 3 extra years with my son" - they alleviated his symptoms. But without a safe supply, Ryan lost his life. It's not complicated, but it is political cowardice.
❤️ to @ryanshope.bsky.social

"The moment we embraced #HarmReduction was the moment it changed, for both of us" - paraphrasing @harmreduxnurse.bsky.social & B from @4bharmredux.bsky.social at @hracollective.bsky.social's event. Moving to see you advocating for #SupportDontPunish approaches side-by-side.

Cover page of the Key Findings section of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2025 World Drug Report.

Spending this rainy Thurs listening to @hracollective.bsky.social's excellent #SupportDontPunish webinar while reading through the just-released UNODC 2025 World Drug Report, which estimates that 316 mil ppl used illegal drugs last year, incl. 61 mil users of unregulated opioids,

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📣TOMORROW📣

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❤️‍🔥Support. Don’t Punish – Care Not Criminalization
🗓June 26, 2025
⏰1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT

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Support Don't Punish. Care Not Criminalization. June 26. 1PM Pacific time.

All the many group logos of participating groups: MSTHL, CSSDP, CDPC, HRNA, DSDP, and many others.

@hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social and @hracollective.bsky.social are co-hosting a series of incredible speakers from across the country to mark the annual Global Day of Action!

REGISTER HERE: www.eventbrite.ca/e/care-not-c...

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@hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social
Hummingbird Outreach
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
No Pride in Policing Coalition (Toronto)
Prairie Harm Reduction
Ryan's Hope
Students for Harm Reduction
Substance Overdose Prevention & Education Network (SOPEN Hamilton)

💫 Featuring:

@4bharmredux.bsky.social
Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD)
@candrugpolicy.bsky.social
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy
@dsdp.ca
Frontline Baddies

📌See our full list of speakers + more info on our website:

🔗 hractioncollective.com/action/#events

#SupportDontPunish #HarmReduction #CareNotCriminalization

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🗓June 26, 2025
⏰1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT

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🔗 supportdontpunish2025.eventbrite.ca

Going to the root: harm reduction to combat racism and imperialism Addressing toxic drug supply through harm reduction principles is necessary to challenge racism, exploitation, and imperial power

“It’s not the institutions that push these policies forward, it’s the people.”

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

@hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social
Hummingbird Outreach
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
No Pride in Policing Coalition (Toronto)
Prairie Harm Reduction
Ryan's Hope
Students for Harm Reduction
Substance Overdose Prevention & Education Network (SOPEN Hamilton)

💫 Featuring:

@4bharmredux.bsky.social
Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD)
@candrugpolicy.bsky.social
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy
@dsdp.ca
Frontline Baddies

📌See our full list of speakers + more info on our website:

🔗 hractioncollective.com/action/#events

#SupportDontPunish #HarmReduction #CareNotCriminalization

Solid black background. White and purple-pink gradient block text overlaid. Text reads: Support. Don’t Punish. Care. Not Criminalization. June 26 1pm PT 2pm MT 3pm CT 4pm ET 5pm AT 5:30pm NT Support. Don’t Punish (logo) Co-hosted by HRAC (logo) and HIV Legal Network (logo)

📣REGISTER NOW📣

❤️‍🔥Support. Don’t Punish – Care Not Criminalization
🗓June 26, 2025
⏰1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT

🎟RSVP now - co-hosted by
@hracollective.bsky.social & @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social💥

🔗 supportdontpunish2025.eventbrite.ca

❤️‍🔥Support. Don’t Punish – Care Not Criminalization 🗓️June 26, 2025 ⏰1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT

We’ve teamed up with @hracollective.bsky.social‬ to host a special event with people from across Canada speaking to the harms of drug criminalization in Canada as part of the 'Support. Don’t Punish' global day of action on June 26.

Registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/care-not-c...

Despite 'massive shift' towards smoking over injection, Ontario has only 1 supervised drug inhalation space | CBC News A small specialty hospital in Toronto contains the province’s only supervised inhalation space - even as the number of Ontarians who appear to be dying of opioid overdoses after smoking drugs has more...

this isn't new information, the trend was obvious and communicated in 2018 in B.C., this mode of consumption normal practice. governments and their experts talk about injection sites and heroin and implement pilot projects five years too late

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a shamefully biased article from the Times Colonist—the author uses negative framing to guide readers towards viewing harm reduction as “questionable” or “unsafe”.

“So-called supervised-consumption sites”…”crack-pipe-dispensing vending machine”

#bcpoli

@hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social
Hummingbird Outreach
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
No Pride in Policing Coalition (Toronto)
Prairie Harm Reduction
Ryan's Hope
Students for Harm Reduction
Substance Overdose Prevention & Education Network (SOPEN Hamilton)

💫 Featuring:

@4bharmredux.bsky.social
Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD)
@candrugpolicy.bsky.social
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy
@dsdp.ca
Frontline Baddies

📌See our full list of speakers + more info on our website:

🔗 hractioncollective.com/action/#events

#SupportDontPunish #HarmReduction #CareNotCriminalization