Podcast up now: tiny.cc/hgte001 Kelsey Speed of the BC Centre on Substance Use on the re-criminalization of public drug use and possession through a public health lens. @power1312.bsky.social @kelseyspeed.bsky.social @tsk.bsky.social @cjphrcsp.bsky.social
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Decriminalization undone: Assessing the amendment to British Columbiaโs decriminalization of personal drug possession framework
Special Section on the Public Health Response to the Overdose Crisis in Canada: Commentary
Published: 12 March 2025
new paper in the Canadian Journal of Public Health (@cjphrcsp.bsky.social) on who is violently excluded from the 'public' and sanctioned to die in the BC NDP-led decision to 'recriminalize' drugs
link.springer.com/article/10.1... #drugsky @kelseyspeed.bsky.social
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Vancouver to transform Downtown Eastside by pausing supportive housing, cracking down on crime
"Transform" is one word for this, @globalnews.ca. Others would be "violent dismantling of marginalized communities," "land seizure by developers," or "fascist urban takeover."
Shameful bit of news propaganda, reprinting Ken Sim's every key message without critique. 1/
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Assistant Professor in Family Science at the University of Alberta. Interested in all things related to substance use, rural health and families. Bluenoser ๐
People doing care work organizing on unceded Coast Salish territories to remove police from healthcare systems & decarcerate care.
www.carenotcops.ca
Our purpose is to inspire and empower people and institutions who are committed to advancing health equity and social justice.
Founder and President, Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA. Visit us on: https://www.intersectionalitytraining.com/
The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) is a peer-governed organization of people with current or former experience of criminalized substance use. Join us in our fight to end the stigma and discrimination against drug users in Surrey, BC | ๐๐โโค๏ธ
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Researcher, organizer, medic | Surrey Union of Drug Users | Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, UVic | Former: EIDGE, VANDU OPS
Independent Journalism on State Violence
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phd candidate @ university of toronto
MD, MSc, CCFP(AM). she/her/elle. Professor, #ualberta Family Medicine. Associate Scientific Director, www.ichwp.ca . แแฅแขแฟแแแขแฒแฆแแฒแฃ (Amiskwacรฎwรขskahikan)
๐ legal fees fundraiser for the Drug Users Liberation Front: www.dulf.ca/dulf-aid-2/
Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
A Philadelphia-based HIV prevention and public health nonprofit taking a low barrier person-centered approach to promoting health, empowerment, and safety for communities affected by substance use and poverty.
www.ppponline.org
Harm reduction & home baking
Prof of Inclusion Health Sociology, LSHTM
Current projects:
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/ihost
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/sipp
History: http://youtu.be/0H51Nk-I7PA
MD, MSc, FRCPC, DRCPSC. Addiction Medicine / Population Health. Views and opinions are my own. She/Her.
Medical Anthropologist @ University of California - San Francisco
Associate Director, Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative
Opioid Industry Document Archive
addicted.pregnant.poor
Policy and politics at the intersection of race, tech, and safe & just communities.
MuckRack: https://muckrack.com/walter-katz/articles
Forever a Rookie. Detective Sergeant working towards a better world. Millennial. Iraq War Vet. Poker Player. Cancer Survivor. Trauma Survivor.
#ShibaInu
Author, BLEEDING OUT. Founding Director, VRC. Associate Research Professor, UMD. Senior Fellow, CCJ. Opinions, my own.
Author of Back from the Brink. https://t.co/mABbQyS1jf
Professor. Writer. New Yorker. Here for the pigeons and also discourse on policing and criminal justice.
The only independent think tank in the UK focused on improving policing. Hosted the Strategic Review of Policing https://www.police-foundation.org.uk/
Criminologist | Executive Director, Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium | National Expert and Researcher, Mass Shootings | Co-Editor, Journal of Mass Violence Research (@jmssvlncrsrch.bsky.social). Opinions my own.
