The first steps for systemic change are usually the hardest. But thanks to an international community of experts, including and especially those with lived expertise on the…
Methadone north of 60
The harm reduction tool box contains many useful programs: needle exchanges and safer crack kits, safe injection sites and outreach vans are very important tools that a…
The Political Parties Response to our Drug Policy Questionnaire
Last month, we worked with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and “moms united and mandated to saving the lives of Drug Users” (mumsDU) to send out a…
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition/Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network Policy Briefs
Harm Reduction Brief Canada is known around the world as a leader in harm reduction. It is host to the first, and only supervised consumption site in…
Time to rethink our approach to drugs in prisons: Barriers to in-prison substance use treatment and harm reduction programs
This is the third in a three-part series highlighting the critical need to consider policy and program reform in Canadian federal prisons. You can read the first…
Drugs in Canadian prisons: has enforcement worked?
This is the first in a three-part series highlighting the critical need to consider policy and program reform in Canadian federal prisons.
Drug Policy Abuse: a condition affecting politicians across Canada
A new, debilitating psychiatric condition has been identified today by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Sadly this condition – dubbed “Drug Policy Abuse” – affects a great…
Illegal Drugs Get Cheaper, More Potent
Sometimes my work as a drug policy analyst is really hard to explain to my non-drug policy friends. Most of the research findings about drug policy that…
How a Prorogued Parliament Could Help Harm Reduction
Today the Conservative government prorogued the Canadian parliament. What this means is that the current legislative agenda, on hold when parliament recessed for the summer, is now…
