Counterpoint: As parents, we support harm reduction in our community nationalpost.com/opinion/counte…

'I've learned that we tend to wrongly divide the world into people who give help and people who need help, in reality as human beings we are at various times--helpers or helped, sometimes both at once' 👏🏻

You should read this 👇

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Non-fatal overdose risk increases in a dose responsive manner with increasing poverty.

Poverty alleviation, housing stability, and partnering with existing community organizations may be effective strategies to reduce neighborhood-level overdose death.

'Hard drugs like cocaine and ecstasy should be regulated, according to the mayor of Amsterdam, who believes this is the only way to defeat narco-trafficking and its 'disastrous' effect on her city.'

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Register for the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy 2024 Houston Lecture, April 24/2024 in person U of Saskatchewan or online.
This year's speaker is Dr. Patricia O'Campo, speaking on 'What has 30 years of research on the social determinants of health taught us about housing and the housing crisis?'

Today! Register and you will receive a link right before the webinar.

'Examining inequities in access to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) take-home doses (THD): A Canadian OAT guideline synthesis and systematic review' by Cayley Russell et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...does your country have standard OAT guidelines?

Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#OAT

If you have a few minutes today or this week, why not complete the Global Drug Survey. So important to hear what is happening around the world and improve our understanding. Take part here redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=CK3…

Strong statement against Alberta's Bill 18 from CAUT which represents over 72,000 academic and professional staff at over 125 universities and colleges across Canada. #ableg #yeg #ualberta

The UCP's Bill 18 is such a blatent & politically motivated assault on academic freedom & free inquiry that it doesn't seem real.

Does the government fear knowledge this much? Do they fear the light that research and free inquiry brings to democracies?

Yes, the peer review…

'I will continue to do all I can to advocate for a regulatory framework that does not impede our ability to secure federal funding + operates in a manner consistent with the university’s core commitment to academic freedom' Bill Flanagan

ualberta.ca/the-quad/2024/…

Volume 115, Issue 2 is now available. New Editor in Chief, Dr. Laura Rosella Laura Rosella writes 'In this new chapter of CJPH, we recognize the critical imperative to promote scholarship that supports action to improve health equity and social justice.' link.springer.com/article/10.172…

“Albertans and all Canadians are best served by university and college research that is assessed on its scientific merit, and not on political ideology.'

After a decade-long freeze, the Government of Canada is finally increasing the size of TriCouncil awards for graduate students. This is welcome news for the next generation of researchers across the country, and a long overdue investment in Canada's social and economic future.

No amount of 'recovery-oriented care' will solve Alberta's toxic drug crisis. We need new investment in a multi-pronged, public health approach. #ableg

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#ICYMI Shelby Yamamoto, #UAlbertsSPH associate professor, tells CBC Radio Active that she hopes the climate map will generate ideas to support populations.
Listen to her interview: bit.ly/444xN0O

“These are preventable + accidental deaths, and these are people who have their whole lives ahead of them, who have so many contributions that they could have — and I’m sure wanted to make — to their families, to their communities + societies as a whole”

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Interesting research from my University of Alberta colleagues via Common Ground.

Public support for supervised consumption services is relatively stable in Alberta (has hovered ~ 50% since 2020). Yet most Albertans dramatically underestimate this level of support. #ableg

Drug #decriminalization is not to blame for all of our social woes. #Addiction , #homelessness , social disorder, violence and more can't all be blamed on a single policy, by André Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… via Globe Opinion #ToxicDrugCrisis