Spending $2,000,000,000,000 on nuclear weapons while letting your people suffer needlessly and die preventable deaths is bad, actually

The October edition of Community Now! Magazine is live! Thank you to Jade Alberts for sharing our founder’s story in this issue! Read what Simran K. Dhillon and Adarsh Badesha have to say: lnkd.in/gdKN4_Tf

Happy New Years Eve, everyone! Always remember: - Party hard. - Party safe. - Just as with recovery, resolutions are self-defined. There is no such thing as failure. Only opportunities to grow. - Be kinder to yourself in 2022 than you were in 2021. - End the war on drugs.

2022 I pray my daughter survives long enough to get #safesupply..also that our bcndp govt takes this crisis seriously #stigma John Horgan Adrian Dix

Chief Joe Zatylny is looking at an initiative from Surrey, B.C., as a possible solution to preventing fires in vacant and abandoned buildings. cbc.ca/1.6291169

“It’s important we understand people who use drugs are often self-medicating. “If we understand that, we understand that if you’re throwing these people in jail, all you’re doing is victimizing the victims.” thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/0…

#Harmreduction advocates say only thing predictable about drug supply is unpredictability, and #benzos are a major problem: cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

When you elect a provincial government who picks and chooses their beliefs on the science of immunology, virology, infectious disease and addictions, wait till you see their policies on disability from long COVID.

Essential stories of 2021: #UAlberta students won $100k to help create a street-ready solution to prevent fentanyl poisoning that will ultimately be a lifeline for those who use drugs #LeadingWithPurpose ow.ly/tEcv50HjB5O

After losing her son to opioids, this Alberta mom is on a mission to change how the crisis is handled - The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

What if everyone decided to hate the war on drugs instead of the people who use them? #EndOverdose

In a first-in-humans clinical trial, diabetes researchers found that pancreatic cells grown from a patient’s blood can be safely implanted and begin to produce insulin. #UAlberta #diabetes #StemCells UAlberta Med & Dent Alberta Diabetes 吃人陈 @ViaCyte bit.ly/3HU38qt

New Paper! Investigating Opioid Preference to Inform Safer Supply Services: A Cross Sectional Study. To read more: ow.ly/gZWr50Hs5fE

Closures of supervised consumption sites are already putting pressure on EMS in Alberta. What do you think will happening when the gov’t starts requiring people who use illegal drugs at these sites to register and show ID? #ableg globalnews.ca/news/8504707/a…

On Monday, #yegcc will have the opportunity to take a first step towards a public health approach to the drug poisoning epidemic that will not only save lives but reduce crime, theft, and burglaries throughout our city. #yeg michaeljanz.ca/decriminalizat…

We can choose to end the failed war on drugs by passing Bill C-216. This is truly an emergency, and it is one the government can no longer ignore. This crisis affects all Cdns, but in particular young people, Indigenous people, Black people and people of colour. #cdnpoli 1/3

A behind the scenes look at how the overdose response file has been handled in Alberta during the past two years. #ableg globalnews.ca/news/8746746/a…