Getting to Tomorrow: Ending the Overdose Crisis

Building consensus and finding shared meaning to realize solutions to the overdose crisis

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The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC) is a policy advocacy organization comprised of around 50 organizations and over 4,000 individuals striving to end the harms of drug prohibition. It operates as a project within Simon Fraser University under the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction.

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Rally to save ARCHES and SCS in Lethbridge; Lethbridge, AB; Aug. 31, 2020
International Overdose Day Burrard Street Bridge Memorial by Moms Stop the Harm; Vancouver; Aug. 31, 2020
International Overdose Awareness Day Downtown Eastside Rally; Vancouver; Aug. 31, 2020
International Overdose Awareness Day Downtown Eastside Rally; Vancouver; Aug. 31, 2020
VANDU Memorial March; Vancouver; Aug. 15, 2020
VANDU Memorial March; Vancouver; Aug. 15, 2020
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Canada’s busiest supervised consumption site shuts its doors on International Overdose Awareness Day

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From Down Under to the Downtown Eastside: An Aussie’s experience at OPS and the community of care saving lives

Welcoming our new team members for 2020 and beyond

For drug policy, the university of life imparts the most important lessons of all

What a Liberal minority government means for drug policy in Canada

A record number of people have died from overdose in Ontario, but do politicians care enough to act?

A Roadmap for Canada’s Drug Policy Future: The Peter Wall International Research Roundtable

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Supporting Health and Human Rights in Drug Policy: Brief to the Minister of Health and Canadian Delegation to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

The High-Level Ministerial Segment of the 62nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna on March 14th and 15th is the next significant meeting of UN Member States to focus on global drug policy.

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"Criminalization of people who use drugs harms some of the world’s most vulnerable citizens. This has to stop."

Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. (Photo credit: Farhang Ghajar, CBC)