Items tagged with opioids
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| B.C. toxic drug deaths ‘largely preventable,’ coroner says, amid push for expanded safer supply access [01.11.2023] | The BC Coroners Service is urging the province to “immediately pursue” expanded access to safer supply as a new report on toxic drug deaths finds man ... |
| DULF organizers arrested for operating safe drug compassion club [26.10.2023] | Vancouver police have arrested drug policy activists Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum after executing search warrants on the Drug User Liberation Front of ... |
| The evidence shows that safer supply drug programs work [12.10.2023] | The mounting moral panic against safer supply and other harm reduction interventions to counter the toxic drug crisis is not based in evidence. The r ... |
| America has lost the War on Drugs. Here’s what needs to happen next [22.02.2023] | For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. Before long, ... |
| Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? [23.10.2022] | Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. It’s a crisis that has been blamed on a wa ... |
| Over 10,000 people in B.C. have died due to toxic drugs since health emergency was declared in 2016: coroner [16.08.2022] | More than 140 people died from illicit drug toxicity across B.C. during the month of June, the provincial coroners' service says, pushing the total n ... |
| New program sells regulated fentanyl to help prevent overdoses from illicit supply in Vancouver [07.04.2022] | A Vancouver social services organization has launched a program to sell pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl to drug users who would otherwise purchase toxi ... |
| The Tenderloin suffers under another inhumane crackdown [30.03.2022] | In December, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin (TL), a neighborhood which has long been home to some o ... |
| D.A. Chesa Boudin joins critics of Breed’s Tenderloin crackdown to protest plan [20.12.2021] | District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined other elected officials and activists to criticize Mayor London Breed’s plan to flood San Francisco’s Tenderloi ... |
| S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin [18.12.2021] | San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin, allowing city officials to bypass some bureaucratic hurdles as they ... |
| US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says [17.11.2021] | The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the US during a 12-month period ending in April rose by 28.5% compared with the same period the year ... |
| Vancouver's chief medical officer recommends compassion club model to reduce illicit drug deaths [22.10.2021] | Vancouver's head doctor said more headway needs to be made on the opioid crisis in British Columbia and one way to stop people from dying sooner rath ... |
| A global fight looms over Kratom, a possible opioid alternative [09.10.2021] | A World Health Organization meeting could determine the future of kratom, a widely available herbal supplement some tout as an alternative to opioid ... |
| Drug decriminalization movement gaining momentum in Canada as overdose deaths surge [29.09.2021] | As overdose deaths keep surging in Canada, the movement to decriminalize illicit drugs is gaining steam, with one of the country's largest mental hea ... |
| We should hand out free heroin to drug users [26.08.2021] | Let’s give out heroin, for free, to anyone who wants it. This is not a provocation meant to make you gasp or to elicit angry clicks—rather, it’s a pr ... |
| This overdose awareness day, activists will again hand out safe drugs [24.08.2021] | In the midst of a federal election campaign, a group of activists plan to again hand out tested, untainted heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine in a p ... |
| Free heroin could help Scotland shake off unwanted drugs death title [16.05.2021] | The professor behind Dutch addicts getting taxpayer-funded heroin has called on the Scottish Government to do the same in its fight against drugs. Re ... |
| Overdose deaths have surged during the pandemic, C.D.C. data shows [14.04.2021] | More than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September, according to preliminary federal data, eclipsing ... |
| Safe drug supply program still not reaching enough people in B.C., say advocates [26.03.2021] | It's been a year since the province rushed to create new guidelines allowing doctors to prescribe hydromorphone to patients with opioid use disorders ... |
| A tale of two public health crises — science is being used to stem coronavirus but not opioid deaths [13.03.2021] | As one public health emergency sees policymakers around the world turn to the best available science to stem its tide, another deadly crisis rages on ... |
| As BC’s overdose crisis deepens, Province defends efforts [02.03.2021] | At least 165 more British Columbians died of illicit drug overdoses in the first month of 2021, more than double the number of deaths recorded last J ... |
| B.C. asks federal government for exemption to decriminalize illicit drugs [11.02.2021] | British Columbia is asking the federal government to grant the province an exemption under federal law to decriminalize the possession of small amoun ... |
| 2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far [15.01.2021] | San Francisco lost a total of 699 people to overdoses last year, a 59% rise from 2019, according to new data released by the Office of the Chief Medi ... |
| Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war [12.12.2020] | A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be sa ... |
| Scott Wiener tries — again — to allow S.F., Oakland and L.A. to open a safe drug use site [07.12.2020] | State Sen. Scott Wiener is trying — once again — to allow San Francisco to open a safe injection site, where people can use drugs in a safe and super ... |
| Vancouver proposes decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs [18.11.2020] | Vancouver is proposing to become the first Canadian city to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Mayor Kennedy Stewart, wh ... |
| OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges [21.10.2020] | Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plea ... |
| ‘It’s personal to me’: Dr. Bonnie Henry on why we can’t afford to ignore B.C.’s overdose crisis [30.09.2020] | B.C.’s top doctor says the province’s two public health emergencies — the overdose crisis and COVID-19 pandemic — continue to intersect in ways that ... |
| Overdoses are killing more people in Western Canada than COVID-19. B.C. has a bold new plan [25.09.2020] | Canada’s other epidemic, the opioids overdose crisis, is more deadly than ever this year. Deaths in British Columbia hit new highs over the spring, i ... |
| ‘Life-saving and life-changing’: BC’s safe supply program gets major expansion [16.09.2020] | Bold changes and a dramatic expansion are coming to safe supply efforts in B.C. in response to an increasingly toxic drug supply and the deadly overd ... |
| Amid spike in opioid overdoses, momentum for reform wavers [31.08.2020] | U.S. states and cities are seeing increases in opioid-related overdose deaths A paper issued by the American Medical Association this summer found th ... |
| 'So much sadness': more British Columbians dying from overdoses than Covid [28.08.2020] | A growing number of drug policy experts, users and advocates argue that dramatically expanding access to pharmaceutical-grade heroin is the only mean ... |
| Expand safe supply options for people who use drugs, Ontario advocates say [27.08.2020] | All levels of government responded quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic, and harm reduction advocates are wondering why the same hasn't happened for the ... |
| Why the Drug User Liberation Front gave out free, checked drugs in Vancouver [11.08.2020] | The Drug User Liberation Front, a Vancouver-based activist group, made a serious statement on June 23. During a protest in the city’s Downtown Eastsi ... |
| ‘Does anyone care?’: B.C. overdose deaths hit record high for second consecutive month [17.07.2020] | This time, at least 175 people died. The victims include a soccer goalie who had just celebrated his 26th birthday, a cheerful young volunteer at an ... |
| Secret US drug injection site shows how supervision could save lives [08.07.2020] | For five years, a secret supervised drug injection site has operated in the US, allowing drug users to inject more than 10,000 times in a sterile, pr ... |
| Supervised consumption sites save Alberta money: University of Calgary study [25.06.2020] | A study from the University of Calgary has concluded the Calgary supervised consumption site is saving the province money. The study looked at the co ... |
| B.C. records highest number of fatal overdoses in a single month, with 170 deaths [11.06.2020] | The BC Coroners Service said 170 people died of an illicit drug overdose in May, the highest total ever recorded for a single month in provincial his ... |
| B.C. moves to 'safe supply' as overdose deaths spike during COVID-19 pandemic [12.05.2020] | The new guidelines were announced in late March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — concerns about the drug supply becoming even further adulterat ... |
| The opioid epidemic was already a national crisis. Covid-19 could be making things worse [07.05.2020] | Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the nation was in the throes of another public health crisis: the opioid epidemic. More than 2 million Americans strugg ... |
| Canada’s Safe-Supply vending machines project is even more important now [05.05.2020] | Due to the increase in opioid overdoses, British Columbia declared a public health emergency in 2016. Fentanyl was in town, contributing to thousands ... |
| Advocates call safe drug supply a victory but worry about logistics in pandemic [06.04.2020] | Advocates say it took a pandemic for steps forward in the call for a safe supply of drugs for people dealing with substance use problems and there’s ... |
| Opioid vending machine opens in Vancouver [17.02.2020] | A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the Canadian city’s overdose crisis. The MySafe projec ... |
| Tainted drugs are fuelling Thunder Bay's opioid deaths, say advocates. They want a safe supply to fight it [08.01.2020] | Inside the only supervised injection site in Thunder Bay, Ont., nurse practitioner Josh Fraser has reversed so many opioid overdoses that he says the ... |
| Opioids, pot and criminal justice reform helped undermine this decade's War on Drugs [29.12.2019] | This much we know: Americans like to do drugs. That might explain why a prescient headline in the satirical publication The Onion stands as one of th ... |
| Canada’s opioid crisis: The people and communities fighting for change and finding solutions [23.12.2019] | The drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in Canada, with no communities spared. Now, many are banding together to speak up and find solutions. ... |
| Legalizing cannabis linked to less opioid prescriptions [17.12.2019] | There are less opioid prescriptions on average in U.S. states where medical and recreational marijuana are legal, research has revealed. Access to re ... |
| Could cannabis be a 'silver bullet' in the fight against the opioid crisis? [24.11.2019] | A new study suggests cannabis could be a safer and more effective substitute for opioids in the treatment of chronic pain, but can it help fight the ... |
| Vancouver pilots new fentanyl-patch program to combat opioid crisis [13.11.2019] | A Vancouver physician is prescribing fentanyl to patients with opioid-use disorder in the latest effort by the medical community to curb overdose dea ... |
| Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it [29.09.2019] | A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, ... |
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