Zoë Dodd

Securitizing carceral health: a realist review of Canada’s prison needle exchange program - Health & Justice Background In 2018, in response to a lawsuit and years of civil society advocacy for prison-based syringe distribution due to elevated rates of injection drug use, HIV, and hepatitis C virus among inc...

canada’s prison needle exchange program is a helpful case study in how crucial reforms can be undermined through bad implementation, punitive barriers, conditioning entitlement, or policy sabotage. it provides helpful lessons for other areas of drug policy & law reform-open access in Health&Justice

"thirteen principles for supporting people’s agency, self-determination, dignity of risk, and general well-being."

#ResistCriminalization
#AbolitionNow

Go see my sister Sarah in this rendition of Anne of Green Gables ❤️❤️❤️❤️ love her and this review!!

Media, politicians are rebranding coercion against drug users as ‘care’ ⋆ The Breach Governments are using forced abstinence to hide their failures—and our biggest papers are helping them

“several provincial legislatures are resorting to policies like forced treatment to deflect attention away from their own failures that created these crises in the first place”

Great article by @drugdatadecoded.ca & @zoedodd.bsky.social

Sask, pay attention! #skpoli

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YOUR BUSINESS' MOST VALUABLE INVESTMENT A Conversation with Minister of Mental Health and Addiction, Dan Williams Event Sponsors Downtown Recovery Coalition Date and Time Monday May 12, 2025 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM MDT

A woman in a moustache taped to her face holds a sign of her head that says Bill 53 as a human rights violation. Above that sign is a building sign that says Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. It’s on a busy downtown street.

A woman holds a sign of above her head with one Reid’s harm reduction is not the enemy. She has a moustache taped onto her face. Her black hoodie reads harm redux punks.

A person holding a sign above their head that reads BILL 53 is eugenics, and the person is dressed all in black with a moustache taped to their face.

This morning, everyone’s least favourite Downtown Revitalization Coalition hosted “A Conversation with Minister of Mental Health and Addiction, Dan Williams.”

But right outside, @4bharmredux.bsky.social held a protest all dressed in Dan Williams moustaches, and they deserve a round of applause. 1/

As someone who outsources his thinking to the bluesky brain trust, this is very frightening to me

Ontario strategy to dismantle supervised consumption sites (SCS): fund a vaguely defined service to “replace” SCS, shut down SCS on basis of proximity to kids, get sued and lose, defund SCS anyway, defund sterile supply distribution to amplify damage. Evil.

This is a big deal for CSAM.

Unfortunately, nothing in the Liberal platform suggests they’ll protect politically besieged supervised consumption sites. Not one mention of harm reduction period.

Their new drug policy ideas amount to empowering cops to tear open mail now with a “general warrant.”

New position statement from the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine urges all levels of government, healthcare providers, and community stakeholders to support the expansion and destigmatization of supervised consumption services.
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April 22 and the supervised consumption sites that are supposed to become “hart hubs” have still not received their funding and are NOT up and running. Province was still messing with the agreements trying to get rid of harm reduction supples distribution and exchange from any partnered site.

Meet the Corporate Lobbyists Connected to Pierre Poilievre and his Inner-Circle Geoff Dembicki from DeSmog is pulling back the curtain on the influence of corporate lobbyists on Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives

🔊 PODCAST: Meet the corporate lobbyists connected to Pierre Poilievre and his inner-circle

DeSmog’s @geoffdembicki.bsky.social is pulling back the curtain on the influence of corporate lobbyists on Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Medical organizations, patients raise concerns about health not taking centre stage in federal election campaign Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions points to the nation-wide shortages of health care providers as key issues requiring solutions

Patients, medical orgs and physicians are speaking out to say health care should not take a backseat in the federal election campaign, @kkirkup.bsky.social reports. Health care is not listed as a topic in this week's leaders' debates
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Hospital Addiction Consultation Service and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment This randomized clinical trial compares usual care to an addiction-focused consultation service in hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder.

Lessons Learned From Drug Decriminalization Remedies in British Columbia
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The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.

Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

Does this man understand where the drugs killing people even come from? Shocking how he wants to wage war on those of us who have spent our lives supporting people - wants us fired and to escalate even more deaths.

the role of fossil capital in the rise of the far right in the US - and its consequences - are difficult to keep track of given the sheer pace of change. still, we should.

all faculty and eligible university workers should pile into AAUP

Canadian Blood Services’ partnership with a private company that pays for plasma puts the ethics and safety of our blood system at risk, critics say.

Canada’s tainted blood scandal warned against paying donors for blood products. So why are paid-plasma clinics popping up across the country? www.thestar.com/business/can... @thestar.com

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

I have responded to 100’s of ODs but the ones not in sites are traumatizing to respond too for you and the person oding. They’re scary when someone is blue or grey and unresponsive.

They will train you at the pharmacy too

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The 68th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place in Vienna last month

Key takeaways:
🔹Colombia's historic resolution to review the drug control system
🔹Growing discussions around coca/cocaine regulation
🔹The belligerent & obstructive new US delegation
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Colombia’s role is crucial—having suffered decades of drug war violence, corruption, and environmental destruction. They are now leading the call for a rethink of the global drug control system.
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Those outside of the field might not appreciate how notable it is that the US voted *against* the draft resolution: 'Promoting comprehensive, scientific evidence-based and multisectoral national systems of drug use prevention for children and adolescents' at CND 2025 docs.un.org/en/E/CN.7/20...

I bet everyone in that room wished there was an eject button they could press and launch this man out of the room.

Elbows up? Here’s how some of the major projects we’re fast-tracking will end up helping Trump’s inner circle Canada’s oil and gas industry is, to a large extent, owned by American companies, including oil majors, asset managers, and other financial players.

New piece: We need to dig into the nationalism and protectionism that is abound in Canada right now and follow the money. Politicians are just fast-tracking the oligarchy.

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There is NO emergency response table in Toronto. No emergency response table in the province. Ford government closed the sites and that’s it. Funding has not flowed to orgs for their “hubs” and staff that would have responded laid off. This is an ABSOLUTE DISASTER

One of the busiest sites in the city closed their doors, - the Works run by Toronto public health, yesterday my friend found someone oding in the area in a lane way. He saved this person’s life!! Overdoses in a shelter where a site closed. Staff in drop ins are being trained to respond.

If you live in Ontario near any of the closed supervised consumption sites we need you to get trained in overdose response. Yesterday a colleague found someone overdosed in a door way, tried to revive them but they were already dead.

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‘It’s classist. It’s racist’: Ontario’s overdose death capital braces for more loss: ricochet.media/justice/heal...