We need #safeconsumption sites so people don't pass out, freeze and die in a dumpster. We need them as a safety net and a chance at voluntary rehab. A trusted safe supply. Nonjudgemental. Less stigma. It's the #drugs NOT the human being. #Addiction is soul crushing. #compassion #WhosChildIsThis

Inside the Only Supervised Consumption Site in Canada’s North | The Walrus The Whitehorse facility has reversed hundreds of overdoses while navigating politics, burnout, and fragile funding

We need to do better.

Inside the Only Supervised Consumption Site in Canada’s North
The Whitehorse facility has reversed hundreds of overdoses while navigating politics, burnout, and fragile funding. #canpoli #overdose #safeconsumption #addiction #healthcare

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You don’t have to approve of substance use to support harm reduction. You just have to care whether people live or die.

Harm reduction is risk management, not endorsement.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SafeConsumption #SubstanceUse #Drugs #Substances #Health #Healthcare

You don’t have to approve of substance use to support harm reduction. You just have to care whether people live or die.

Harm reduction is risk management, not endorsement.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SafeConsumption #SubstanceUse #Drugs #Substances #Health #Healthcare #DrugSky

Do supervised consumption sites bring increased crime? Study suggests that’s a myth Overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites in Toronto are not associated with long-term increases in local crime, McGill University researchers have found. Over 10 years, crime reports...

#abpoli #safeconsumption #drugs How do right wingers continue to ignore the facts? www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

MPP, councillor call for investigation of Chinatown addictions clinic | CBC News Catherine McKenney and Ariel Troster are calling on Ontario’s medical regulator to investigate a private addictions treatment clinic that they say has sown "chaos" in Ottawa's Chinatown neighbourhood.

This private clinic replaced a safe consumption site, which had been working well. Safe consumption saves lives. Private medicine exploits the vulnerable.

Ford is killing us with Americanized healthcare.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #SafeConsumption #Ottawa #Ontario #Canada #Politics #Health

#SCS are harm reduction and meant to be one piece of addiction treatment services. The #Ford government believes #SafeConsumption is enabling addiction. While expanding #Treatment and #Detox is necessary, these actions will not stop active drugs users from dying. #ONpoli #Opioids #Canada #NurseSky

#HealthCare SPENDING
Would someone in #Alberta provide #DanielleSmith with the current PREVENTABLE costs required in treating even one patient with e.g., #HepatitisC or #HIV? This is nothing but short-sighted lunacy! 🔚 #abPoli #abLeg #cdnHealth #CanadianHealth #HarmReduction #SafeConsumption

End Prohibition, end the drug war
#safesupply #safeconsumption #harmreductionsaveslives
#skpoli #IOAD2025
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#DearDougie
Even YOU should be able to do
🧮 the math.
Needles cost PENNIES.
Treating e.g., #Hepatitis #HIV #AIDS ❓ FAR from it❗️
#onPoli #SafeConsumption
#HARThubs / #usAID

Safe consumption sites save lives!
They reduce overdoses, connect people to healthcare, and keep communities safer.
It’s time to re-open and expand them- with compassion and urgency.
#safeconsumption #endthestigma #publichealth

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#poiLIEVre #cdnpoli #canPoli #abPoli #abLeg #SKpoli

Poilievre promises to fund 50,000 addictions recovery spaces 'No middlemen, no bureaucracy, just real help for those who need it'

#SafeConsumption #sites are about #RiskReduction, #saferSpaces, & offering #access & #opportunities for #Change

What are the #Tories offering? paying for #barely-regulated #RELIGIOUS or #PRIVATIZED #DrugRehab run by #cronies❓

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Inhale... Exhale. It's the First Da(b)y of Spring. Cheers y'all! 🔥🐲🍯

#SafeConsumption #Snapfest #FirstDayofSpring #Cheers #Snapdragon #Chattanooga

The Change Project: Safe-consumption centers | Video | NJ Spotlight News More public health advocates are embracing the safe-consumption model, what some believe is a radical way to address opioid overdoses.

"When people come in, they’re in pain. They say, ‘I need to get right.’ They don’t go, ‘Man I need to get in there and party.’ This isn’t a party. This isn’t a Friday night, ecstasy-rave thing,” @onpointnyc.bsky.social ED Sam Rivera said.
#safeconsumption
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Substance use expert calls for change in drugs law to enable more safe drug consumption spaces The call from Professor Catriona Matheson comes as she prepares to give evidence at a government inquiry.

🚨 Time for change! 🚨 Prof. Catriona Matheson urges UK drug law reforms to expand Safer Drug Consumption Facilities 🏥💉—building on Glasgow’s success with The Thistle 🌿✅. A key step in tackling drug-related harm? 👀👇

🔗 www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

#DrugPolicy #HarmReduction #SafeConsumption

please listen to this

#HarmReduction #SCS #SCSsavesLIVES #SafeConsumption #ONpoli #ONelection

They're not controversial unless you think people who use drugs should inject in back alleys and other dangerous locations. #harmreduction #safeconsumption

Endless diarrhea and exhaustion: the stomach bug making the rounds among the most vulnerable in Canada | CBC News Shigella infections are preventable through simple hygiene measures, public health experts say, like giving homeless people access to public toilets and a place to wash their hands.

"For the past five weeks, #Toronto night nurse Keren Elumir has been handing out clean underwear and electrolyte packets at a #safeconsumption and #overdoseprevention site in Moss Park" #Shigella #shigellosis #dysentery #hygiene #sanitation #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol Dr. Vivek Murthy’s report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to at least seven malignancies, including breast cancer. But to add warning labels, Congress would have to act.

Not only a cancer risk, alcohol is a gateway drug to heavier drug use. We already have safe consumption sites for alcohol, why not have proper warnings on the product? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/h... #Addiction #MentalHealth #SafeConsumption #BreastCancer #HeartDisease #Arrhythmia #Carcinogen

Making of a Drug Panic How conservatives are blaming drug policy and safe consumption sites for deeper problems.

The politic fear and ignorance. #Safeconsumption

What advice would you wish you were told when you were a young adult? #drugs #harmreduction #informedchoice #safeconsumption #bristol

Ford government slammed for rejecting public hearings on bill to close safe consumption sites: ‘They don’t want to hear from the experts’ Government House Leader Steve Clark defended the measure, saying Health Minister Sylvia Jones signalled in August that "we were prioritizing this" so that a new treatment model called HART hubs

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#safeconsumption #Harmreduction

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#RememberThisOntario #DougFord #ABC #ONPoli #SafeConsumption

#BC #Nanaimo #Harmreduction #Safeconsumption

#Harmreduction #Safeconsumption

Here’s what the Ford government doesn’t get about addiction While well-intentioned, the Ontario government plan to close 10 supervised consumption sites and create 19 new homeless and addiction recovery hubs fails to recognize the complexity of addiction.

"The premise of this (govt's) plan - that a choice needs to be made between harm reduction & treatment, is wrong. We need both, & we should use harm reduction as a pathway to treatment." #SafeConsumption #FordCommitsSocialMurders #FordFailedOntario #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Doug Ford’s legacy will be social murder Closing down safe injection sites is the latest in a long line of deadly policies

Doug Ford’s legacy will be social murder #DougFord #Ontario #onpoli #drugcrisis #harmreduction #safeconsumption
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Shutting down Ontario’s drug consumption sites is a death sentence “Closing down safe drug consumption sites in the midst of a historic overdose epidemic will not help anyone to thrive and our politicians should know that by now,” Manisha Krishnan

Politicians playing politics with peoples lives: Shutting down Ontario's drug consumption sites is a death sentence #harmreduction #Ontario #safeconsumption #healthcare #addictions www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This is not how drug consumption works, KKKeane.

Nobody runs up to people and OD's them.

#safeconsumption #harmreduction