On Friday, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA ) released a groundbreaking report examining heroin-assisted treatment for chronic heroin users, once thought to…
Mark Haden: A Drug Educator’s Apology
Mark Haden is a drug educator. He has spent the last twenty-five years providing public education on drugs and working with addiction counselling services in Canada. Today…
Toronto Drug Strategy Consumption Room Feasibility study released
In 2005 when the Toronto Drug Strategy was approved by Toronto City Council one of the main recommendations was to complete a needs assessment and feasibility study…
A Plague of Prisons: Ernest Drucker with a Lesson for Canada
On April 9, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition along with End Prohibition, PIVOT Legal Society, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) and Western Aboriginal Harm…
Insite withstands test of international drug control conventions
At the 55th meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs held in Vienna March 12 – 16th Damon Barrett, Human Rights expert at Harm Reduction International spoke…
NAOMI Research Survivors: Experiences and Recommendations
On March 31st, 2012 the NAOMI Patients Association (NPA) will celebrate the completion of their first research report, NAOMI Research Survivors: Experiences and Recommendations. To mark the…
Thinking outside the box in Mexico City
“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” Leonard Cohen That is how I started my presentation at the most amazing drug policy reform…
Bill C-10: The work has just begun
Last Thursday at midnight, the Senate approved the Conservative Omnibus Bill C-10, The Safe Streets and Communities Act, with only minor amendments. This marked a very sad…
The Global Commission on Drug Policy salutes Stop the Violence BC and sends a message to the Senate
The Global Commission on Drug Policy is comprised of significant world leaders that are calling for change in the way we approach problem drug use and the…
