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Category: Overdose

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Talking Drug Policy at the Holiday Dinner Table

December 24, 2024 (December 24, 2024)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

Tips for a Tricky Topic Now, how about some of that pie?

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B.C.’s Decriminalization Pilot and VPD Drug Seizures

March 26, 2024 (March 27, 2024)
By CDPC

Today, the Vancouver Police Department reported a decrease in seizures related to simple drug possession since British Columbia’s decriminalization pilot launched in early 2023. While this news…

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One year of decriminalization in BC: What’s really going on? 

January 31, 2024 (January 31, 2024)
By CDPC

A misinformation campaign around public use legislation distracts from real solutions  January 31, 2024 | One year ago today, British Columbia decriminalized personal possession of small amounts of some drugs in limited locations in…

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Open Letter to Saskatchewan government Re: Health Policy Changes

January 25, 2024 (January 25, 2024)
By CDPC

January 25, 2024 To:  Hon. Scott Moe Premier of Saskatchewan [email protected]  Hon. Everett Hindley Minister of Health [email protected]  Hon. Tim McLeod Minister of Mental Health and Addictions…

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

June 4, 2019 (November 9, 2019)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

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…

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Canada needs to vote against a government that supports Bill C-2 & C-36, and here is why…

October 13, 2015 (May 19, 2016)
By Shannon Riley

Sex workers who work in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, British Columbia have faced some of the most extreme violence in Canadian history: Robert Pickton, Donald Bakker, and others have preyed…

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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition/Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network Policy Briefs

October 9, 2015 (November 30, 2021)
By admin

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…

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Canada is ignoring easy, ways to prevent overdose deaths…

October 22, 2014 (March 1, 2016)
By Donald MacPherson

This article first appeared as an op-ed in the National Post, October 22, 2014 A particularly potent batch of heroin recently resulted in 31 overdoses at Vancouver’s…

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It’s easy and it saves lives: Opioid overdose prevention & response in Canada

May 2, 2014 (March 1, 2016)
By Donald MacPherson

In 2013, 308 people lost their lives due to illicit drug overdoses in BC alone. The worst part? Drug-related deaths from opiate overdose are entirely preventable. And…

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