All I can say is, I'm glad no Canadians are dying of drug poisoning cuz that did not come up in that leaders' debate.

If the City of Toronto 🇨🇦 just gave each person they evicted from the encampments $33,000, they would have $2,750 each month for a year to spend on rent and food and other necessities and they wouldn’t be homeless anymore. Instead they violently evicted them.

Goofy-filled tunes fuelling this Friday Eve work/writing

Very privileged to be part of a report led by Tara Gomes that was released earlier this week looking at healthcare use among people who died of an overdose. We found 24% of people had a healthcare encounter in the week prior to death & 50% in the month before they died. 1/x

Today our team released a report on experiences of overdose among people who use drugs. What were experiences of healthcare after an OD like? Unfortunately, "they treat you with such disdain" sums it up. With Kathleen Kenny Ahmed Bayoumi Triti Khorasheh Zoë Dodd unityhealth.to/2022/01/overdo…

My first haftseen! #HappyNowruz

When you’re having a bad mental health day and some lovely friends order you takeout to make thing easier for you and the takeout leaves you with food poisoning in the bathroom for 12 hours and counting…🤣

Our team's new report on the Impacts of Overdose on people experiencing homelessness in Toronto is now available. Very grateful to our community partners for their insights & work on this crucial issue Kathleen Kenny Triti Khorasheh Ahmed Bayoumi Zoë Dodd maphealth.ca/wp-content/upl…

Our new paper looks at the cumulative burden of overdose events and grief/loss among people who use drugs. In it we consider how repeated witnessing of overdoses, experiencing own overdoses and fatal losses to overdose impact everyday life and functioning. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Y’all. This is it.

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” —— Rumi

“The goal of a safer supply program is really to keep people alive, so that those other things people might be interested in having folks explore or consider as options, like treatment, folks can then do that.” statnews.com/2022/09/21/can…

Reconciliation is not a 1 day affair. It’s a life time commitment.

My heart has been heavy & my thoughts elsewhere. Weeks of violent attacks, arrests, and killings in Iran, including at Sharif University where my dad teaches at. Thinking of the safety of all his students, young people, families and more risking their life for freedom 💔🇮🇷

Friday October 21, 11am Allan Gardens - launch of the Evaluation of Encampment Outreach Supports During the COVID-19 Pandemic. We conducted 127 surveys, 39 interviews with encampment residents, outreach workers and volunteers, made over 40 recommendations. MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions

All of our best public health interventions to address drug use in community are ideas we stole from people who use drugs. Gillian Kolla, PhD #mhrc2022 #shitdisturber2022

Spending more on private for-profit healthcare will not solve Ontario's healthcare crisis. Investing in our public healthcare system, will.

An overlooked aspects of the drug toxicity overdose crisis has been the emotional impacts of overdose on front-line harm reduction workers. Our new paper in International Journal of Drug Policy explores the devastating toll from overdose on the wellbeing of workers, and strategies to support them 🧵

“Everybody is impacted. Everybody's hurting”: Grief, loss and the emotional impacts of overdose on harm reduction workers" by Gillian Kolla, PhD et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...how is your community dealing with grief in regards to the overdose crisis? LInk: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…