Our enlightened approach to drug treatment and overdose prevention is facing a backlash, but we can’t stop here

The founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" that sold tested heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine have filed a constitutional challenge of their arrest.

Although some politicians blame harm reduction efforts for societal problems, others view them as lifesaving solutions

Closing these sites will have disastrous consequences, especially for women, children and people who are unhoused.

A complex problem like we are seeing on the streets of most Canadian cities requires a full suite of solutions

With illicit drug use, homelessness and untreated mental illness reaching a crisis in parts of Canada, the governments of at least three provinces want to treat more people against their will, even as some health experts warn involuntary care for drug use can be ineffective and harmful. This month,...

Canadian opponents of harm reduction have been pointing to recent data from Alberta as proof the province’s treatment-based approach to ...

A new study found that drug decriminalization in Oregon did not cause an increase in overdose mortality in the state—refuting ...

Machines removed for the time being while Addiction ministry conducts reviews

Instead of mocking, Conservative Leader Pierre “Poilievre and his team could benefit from experts to understand the evidence on the importance of supervised consumption sites as an essential pillar of

Picture this: your average blonde, older suburban mom (or young suburban grandmom).

B.C. Conservative Party candidate's video of herself accessing 'snorting kit' goes viral

Pharmacies can have an important role in the prevention of overdose and other drug-related harms. Yet they’re frequently doing far ...

Surrey Union of Drug Users is requesting that the province ensure supervised inhalation services match injection service hours at minimum. Inhalation is the route of consumption behind roughly two …

Xylazine and other contaminants have made their way into the illicit drug supply, complicating overdose response. We cannot afford to wait.

The Conservative Leader said he would pull funding from drug-consumption sites and direct funding to addiction recovery programs

What’s the best way to prevent overdose deaths amid a crisis of toxic opioids? In British Columbia, mothers who have lost children are advocating for a safe and regulated supply of drugs. The public does not agree. Part 2 of a series.

British Columbia’s partial retreat from an experiment to decriminalize drug possession reveals a political shift in Canada over combating the opioid crisis.

The author and addiction physician continues disguising reactionary talking points as medical fact through Globe and Mail op-eds. In his latest, he misrepresents death rates in Timmins, belittles harm reduction and appears to cozy up to Poilievre's abstinence-focused drug strategy. In his latest ...

If we want to address the opioid crisis, we need a societal approach to addiction

There was no drug poisoning crisis in the ’60s, writes Dr. Thomas Piggott.

A Guardian analysis of autopsy records reveals record-high overdoses in 2023. Harm reduction advocates are fighting to save lives on the streets

Data indicates that seizures of drugs in quantities at or below 2.5 grams increased by 34 per cent.

The Conservatives and London doctor Andrea Sereda are taking shots at each other over her support of safer opioid supply

Involuntary treatment for substance use is being proposed in provinces across the country. But do programs like this work?

Overdose prevention researchers like me are familiar with the harms caused by the expansion of policing and surveillance. A steady ...

Lollapalooza, Chicago Illinois As the summer approaches, many students are planning on attending music festivals on their break. Music festivals bring people together and are filled with excitement…

How a group of fundamentalists is constructing a great wooden horse standing tall on carcerality, profiteering and propaganda to deliver Compassion unto the people. The Emerald City is, on the surface, a beautiful place built from bounties buried deep in the Earth's crust, where most everyone bel...

A bipartisan bill to legalize psychedelic service centers in California has been amended in a number of different ways as supporters prepare for an expected committee hearing next month. The “Regulated Therapeutic Access to Psychedelics Act”—which would allow adults 21 and older could access psilocy...

Next Naloxone is an online and mail-based naloxone training and distribution platform. Next Naloxone is a project of Next Harm Reduction.

Harm reduction strategies have been used for decades in many developed countries to reduce diseases and overdoses from using drugs obtained on the black market. It's a major reason why those countries have lower drug-related illness and fatality rates than the U.S. In recent years, many state and lo...

An audit of two harm-reduction programs meant to reduce toxic drug-related deaths in B.C. found the initiatives 'weren't effectively implemented.'

A BC street-level drug dealer weighs in on the provinces safer-supply efforts. Says recent rhetoric is 'weaponizing' the issue.