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Why harm reduction is actually compassionate care | Broadview Magazine One doctor explains how it heals communities, even as it faces political backlash.

“Outreach is a core tenet of #harmreduction, a philosophy of care that centres relationship over efficiency, community over control, equity over policy and solidarity over charity.”

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ICYMI: Edmonton set a provincial record for highest weekly opioid poisoning dispatches late February.

You might expect an announcement or drug supply warning from Minister Dan Williams.

Instead, he released without a word a mortality report his Ministry had buried for four years.

Survival of Alberta children forced into abstinence is not monitored The Alberta government has yet to release its proposed Compassionate Intervention Act but indicated in 2023 that the Act would extend existing legislation for forced abstinence of children to adults. ...

What happens when parents and guardians can unilaterally obtain court orders to have their kids seized, rendered to isolation and subjected to potential torture, in some cases dozens of times before adulthood, for 20 years?

We don't know. Nobody asked.
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A joke about Cabinet appointees and their disqualifying traits that substitutes “a junkie” for RFK Jr.

Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.

UCP coordinated overdose prevention site closure with Red Deer city councillor Documents show the United Conservatives were working with city councillors intent on driving the closure of supervised consumption services in Red Deer as early as 2022.

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Newly released documents show the UCP was working with Red Deer city councillors on the closure of supervised consumption services in 2022.

A February 2024 vote by city council prompted the UCP government to announce the site's closure in September. 1/
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B.C. First Nations leaders demand action after Cree girl restrained, pushed to the ground by security guards The violent detention of a 16-year-old Cree girl highlights the ongoing racial profiling of Indigenous people, say leaders.

“This ongoing cycle of violence and abuse is fuelled by racist beliefs and ideas which portray Indigenous peoples as stereotypes that are removed from any semblance of reality,” said Regional Chief Terry Teegee of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations."

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I wanna be on the drugs list!

This is complete madness.

Politics and vaccine misinformation: A horrifyingly bad mix - Healthy Debate Antivaccine beliefs reside most often on the political right. We must confront this reality and devise evidence-informed strategies to counter this trend.

Vaccine misinformation has been SO normalized.

Need scientific community to speak up (now & often) about what the body of evidence actually says!

We can't let sanewashing & the middle ground fallacy win!

My take (with evidence): healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topi...

It’s time for Recovery Alberta to step up in the toxic drug crisis oped

Calgary Council put evidence first—why won’t Recovery Alberta?

SCS save lives, connect people to care, and reduce public harm.

Deflecting responsibility onto cities won’t solve the toxic drug crisis. It’s time for leadership.

By me and @katecolizza.bsky.social
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