Long-established medical practice supports prescribing pre-loaded syringes of epinephrine to people having severe, life-threatening allergic reactions to allergens such as bee stings, nuts and shellfish. Patients, including…
Breaking the Taboo
The CDPC is proud to join together with the Beckley Foundation, Virgin Unite, Sundog Pictures, Avaaz.org, The Global Commission on Drugs, and civil society NGO’s from around…
Supervised Consumption Services and Community Support
Supervised injection sites help save lives and protect communities. This was the conclusion of over 30 research studies on Vancouver’s own supervised injection site (SIS) known as…
Coalition Spotlight: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
The HIV epidemic is one of the most crucial public health issues of our time. What at one time seemed to be an insurmountable challenge has been…
Bud Osborn: Drug War Poems & DTES history
Bud Osborn’s prose charges drug policy debates with deep revelations and compassion. As a long time poet and social activist living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Bud is…
Envy and Love in Portland
Is it possible for a Canadian interested in issues like scaling-up harm reduction and drug law reform to envy the U.S.? That’s the worrisome question that crossed…
A Seismic Shift in Drug Policy
Watching the vote in last night in the U.S. was quite an amazing experience. We watched history being made yet again and not just with the re-election…
Drug Policy 101: Dangers of an Unregulated Drug Market
“We need to recognize that it’s not deviant or pathological for humans to desire to alter their consciousness with psychoactive substances. They’ve been doing it since pre-history……
The Drug War in Your Passport
On October 18th, 1929, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England, the highest court in Canada at the time, made a landmark decision that would…
