A beautiful article by @bychrischeung.bsky.social about the Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, which is the oldest existing gurdwara in the Western Hemisphere. And a good reminder of the need to be willing to understand and learn how history excludes people/ important events.
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Liam Michaud, Emily van der Meulen, and HIV Legal Network Co-Executive Directors Janet Butler-McPhee and Sandra Ka Hon Chu analyze the legal ambiguity and moral injury created by Canada’s Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act:
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Absolutely agree. I should clarify, my original post was sarcastic in nature given the absurdity of the adulteration we are now seeing under prohibition. The BCNDPs moral panic surrounding prescribed safer supply has costed lives.
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Wow, it’s wild that allowing a handful of people to take their hydromorphone home caused this…
04.03.2025 20:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We got this
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You can listen to the full episode here:
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In this episode, Robin recounts her experiences of being pushed away from care as a South Asian woman who uses drugs. Anmol adds historical context, connecting Robin's experiences, drug war colonialism, and recent crackdowns on traditional medicines which harmed South Asian elders in Surrey.
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South Asian people who used drugs are systematically underserved and oppressed by drug war violence in Surrey and throughout so-called Canada.
In Newton, where 60% of the population self identifies as South Asian, there are no OPS’ and a single Take Home Naloxone site.
SUDU South Asian Committee member and leader Robin and SUDUs Executive Director Anmol Swaich were interviewed on the BC Centre on Substance Use’s Addiction Practice Pod.
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As Canada installs a fentanyl czar, it is also:
-closing safe drug consumption sites
-gutting drug decriminalization
-forcing drug users into treatment
-restricting safe supply
With Trudeau leaving, I wrote about the end of progressive drug policy: hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/manisha-kr...
this is a fascist policy to enable the mass removal of a dehumanized population into privately run behaviour modification facilities
in Alberta
some people some drugs
I can't imagine Vancouver without the Downtown Eastside. But Mayor Ken Sim, the cop union, developers & dark yoga oligarchs can. They have plans to clear the hood. I ❤️DTES, despite its scars, bruises & bad rep. www.straight.com/city-culture...
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“Ok well I better get prepared … my daughter is out there and takes 3 doses daily and the pharmacy is nowhere near where she stays. I'm scared she'll get discouraged and go back to street drugs. ” - Mother of BC safe supply recent
On @bydrugdatadecoded.ca
#BCpoli
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‼️ New ‼️
Evaluating the risk for nurses of fentanyl exposure and the harms of perpetuating exposure misinformation.
From Serena Eagland, @pattywilson.bsky.social and me!
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Instead of legislating kidnapping, confinement and torture for adults, Alberta should be repealing the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs (PChAD) Act.
Why won't Alberta, famous for moral panics around kids, protect the many hundreds treated this way each year?
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abruptly cutting off access to regulated and predictable opioids has a fatal history
23.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2Blood on the BCNDPs hands.
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The BCNDPs reckless scapegoating of drug users, most recently by ending carries for prescribed safe supply recipients in response to police-dictated moral panic, will kill even more of us.
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Mona Woodward (Sparkling Fast Rising River Woman) of SUDUs Board of Directors spoke to CBC News about a new report which confirms what we already knew - That people who use drugs were killed by the toxic drug supply in greater numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Love this
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Victoria doctors are protesting again today.
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Vancouver:
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Vancouver Island's @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social will be back outside Royal Jubilee Hospital today and tomorrow with pop-up overdose prevention sites.
They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.
tweet Mo Amir 🪬 @vancolour A few ABC Vancouver city councillors were using taxpayer money to expense their blue checkmarks on X. Anyway, here’s the Mayor of Vancouver’s Chief of Staff taking out an ad on X to amplify one of their own tweets slamming a city council candidate in the upcoming by-election. https://x.com/vancolour/status/1891007702421196811t
Update: Ken Sim's chief of staff, ex-cop Trevor Ford, has now deleted this tweet attacking COPE candidate @seanorr.bsky.social (way to reveal that you fear Sean, ABC!).
BTW, who pays for Trevor's blue Twitter check mark let alone his sponsored tweets?
ABC Vancouver is a slimy outfit.
#vanpoli
Involuntary treatment for severe addiction is better than doing nothing Robert Tanguay and Angie Hamilton Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published November 4, 2024 For Subscribers 165 Listen to this article Robert Tanguay is an addiction psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Angie Hamilton is the co-founder and executive director of Families for Addiction Recovery.
🧵 In November, @zoedodd.bsky.social and I prepared a rebuttal to a Globe Opinion piece calling for forced abstinence of people who use drugs. It conveniently omitted author Rob Tanguay's ownership of Newly Institute, which does psychedelic addiction treatment. 1/
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SUDU members are standing with the Surrey organizers of the Women’s Memorial March.
Ongoing violence against Indigenous women, girls, two spirit, queer and trans people is part and parcel to the colonial project that we have a responsibility to resist. We hold our hands up to the families.
New weird benzo. More bradycardia and prolonged sedation incoming.
Surely the VPDs operation “Barrage” won’t systematically worsen the volatility of the supply, right?
We were joined by Aman and Fraser from @fraserhealth.bsky.social tonight to discuss withdrawal management services in Surrey.
Our members want to work with FHA to make withdrawal management more accessible, including by allowing clients to smoke cigarettes outside while at detox, like in Vancouver.
Two addiction medicine docs quit Island Health in protest, say they were treated unfairly after setting up unsanctioned OPS outside of hospitals in Vic, Nanaimo & Courtenay. They had to act if their employer wouldn't, they say.
@andreawoo.bsky.social reports www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
"In response to the ongoing unregulated toxic drug crisis that has gripped communities across B.C., the Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) is leading a research initiative to address the challenges faced by people who use drugs in Surrey. "
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