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URGENT APPEAL: Supporting people who use drugs and frontline workers during COVID-19
Read more: URGENT APPEAL: Supporting people who use drugs and frontline workers during COVID-19Caught in the crosshairs of this unprecedented disaster are people who use drugs and the…
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COVID-19 Guidance for Clinicians & Opioid Treatment Programs
Read more: COVID-19 Guidance for Clinicians & Opioid Treatment ProgramsGuidance from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine
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Guidance for People Who Use Substances During COVID-19
Read more: Guidance for People Who Use Substances During COVID-19Be aware that some early symptoms of withdrawal and COVID-19 infection are similar. These include…
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COVID-19 Guidance for People Who Use Drugs
Read more: COVID-19 Guidance for People Who Use DrugsSafer Drug Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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COVID-19 Guidance for Harm Reduction Programs
Read more: COVID-19 Guidance for Harm Reduction ProgramsSyringe Services and Harm Reduction Provider Operations During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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OPEN LETTER: Calling on the Alberta Government to retract supervised consumption site report
Read more: OPEN LETTER: Calling on the Alberta Government to retract supervised consumption site reportPoor methodological quality, lack of transparency, and biased presentation of results
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Pain relief that’s a pain in the neck: Issues accessing medicinal cannabis in Australia and Canada
Read more: Pain relief that’s a pain in the neck: Issues accessing medicinal cannabis in Australia and CanadaIf both countries don’t take greater steps to improving access, our claims of superiority will…
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From Down Under to the Downtown Eastside: An Aussie’s experience at OPS and the community of care saving lives
Read more: From Down Under to the Downtown Eastside: An Aussie’s experience at OPS and the community of care saving livesThis is what Australia is missing. Besides people being misinformed about safe injection sites, we…
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For drug policy, the university of life imparts the most important lessons of all
Read more: For drug policy, the university of life imparts the most important lessons of allMy education on drug policy issues came directly from the community here in Vancouver; namely,…

