Lots of people asking how I feel about today’s announcement on decriminalization.

FIRST, to clarify, decrim has not been ended or cancelled. It’s not a crime to possess small amounts of illicit drugs and that’s not changing.

But yes, I’m disappointed in the new rules limiting…

It took me 31 years to stop using drugs. It wasn’t easy. I relapsed many, many times. Thank God (and health-care in BC) for harm reduction keeping me alive until I made it stick.

But as hard as that was, it turned out that quitting drugs was still easier than learning to accept…

Hey London, Ontario ( #LdnOnt ) - and residents of cities & towns across Canada 🇨🇦 - always remember to vote for people who share your values!

It’s hard to read the relentless & dehumanizing tweets of London city councillor Susan Stevenson (Susan Stevenson) about people living in…

If people were really concerned about fueling organized crime, they would look at the policies that create the conditions for organized crime to profit

Safer supply seizures make up a tiny fraction of the total drug seizures. The bulk is fentanyl, cocaine, meth, and counterfeit…

Another deadly drug alert in BC, and though it SHOULD BE obvious: it’s an unregulated drug that’s poisoned, not a prescription. #toxicdrugcrisis

A bit of clarity about the term “moral entrepreneur,” which I learned about this week from a new paper in a scientific journal that maps the moral panic about prescribed safer supply in BC.

(If you haven’t read it, you should!)

Moral entrepreneurs are “key players in the…

Hey look! 👀

Sometimes I DO agree with the moral entrepreneurs!

For example, I think their post about Dr. Martyn Judson is a good one!

Highlighted here on X by conservative anti-harm reduction group “Centre for Responsible Drug Policy” (created and led by opinion writer…

Hahaha! 😂

You’re joking right Collen? You understand that he’s NOT saying doctors have to physically block dealers from speaking to their patients!

He’s speaking metaphorically - a goal of decrim is to interrupt the cycle of addiction & give people better opportunities to…

✨⭐️✨WOW!! ✨⭐️✨

For months I’ve been on here, trying to explain my frustration at the way certain Canadian politicians and media have been manufacturing panic over prescribed safer supply (a small program that provides Rx alternatives to people with diagnosed opioid use…

Men don't like to talk about stuff and for a long time I used to believe that, and it nearly ended my life. I just finished going to trauma therapy and I feel so much better talking about my feelings in order to be the best version of myself. #traumatherapy

Although it’s too early to say anything with confidence, drug poisoning deaths in BC seem to be going DOWN. 🧵

The number of deaths in December, January and February in this province were all lower than the same months in each of the two years prior.

And since November, the…

I still have hope!

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court began to hear arguments about whether to criminalize people for being homeless.

It’s hard to believe that legislators could be so cruel. When there isn’t housing, and there aren’t enough shelter spaces (or when the shelters are more dangerous…

Some people are talking more about small interventions (like safer supply) created to try and blunt the impact of toxic illicit drugs than they are about the ACTUAL POISONED ILLICIT FENTANYL that’s killing 6+ people a day in BC. 🤯

It’s completely nonsensical. #toxicdrugcrisis

What a surprise … in his latest @NationalPost column Adam Zivo thinks police in BC are not good at their jobs (aka not torching safer supply the way he thinks they should).

This is just the latest in a long string of criticisms he’s leveled at EXPERTS who support harm…

Just one of the many negatives to newsroom cuts & shrinking media resources?

Instead of watching the 2-hour meeting of police chief testimony to the federal committee on health, journalists watched 30-second sound bites taken out of context by Conservative MPs.

This isn’t how…

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We’ve got a conversation with the amazing guyfelicella on recovery, harm reduction and gate keeping inside the recovery industry!

And a whole lot more!

See you at 8!

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Don’t usually do *this* but, thread: Monday, SCOTUS debates the criminalization of homelessness. That means many folks are sounding off on the topic. I’ve spent 4 yrs covering this for The Washington Post, and need to reality-check assumptions getting thrown around this week (1/x)

For a long time my dad and I had no relationship we saw each other roughly 4 times in 30 yrs. In 2019 we reconnected and managed to move forward. He told me how proud he was that I got my life together and the work I do to help others.

Last week I received a call he's in the…