Drug Strategy Network of Ontario

19,550 people across Ontario. So many more people left grieving. By any measure, a real-time, preventable tragedy. #OnHealth #OnPoli #CdnHealth #CdnPoli

@l_stone Not helpful! Unwelcome and unsafe. Contrary to internal advice and recs from CMOH to OACP and so many more, in the midst of, by any metric, a raging public health emergency.

NEW: Ontario formally announces plans to wind down provincial funding for 7 remaining supervised drug-use sites - two in Toronto, two in Ottawa and one site each in Niagara, Peterborough and London. Will be replaced with Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub.

@jackhauen Chief Medical Officer of Health, 2024 Recs: Increase access to integrated harm reduction services for people who use opioids, including: - Supervised consumption services (including for smoking/inhalation) P. 63, Balancing Act: An All of Society Approach to Substance Use

The Ford government is pulling funding from the final two provincially-funded Toronto supervised injection sites on June 13. torontotoday.ca/local/city-hal…

The case stems from a cop making arrests at an overdose scene after a 911 call. “The ppl with [Cheryl Delorme] did what we hope anyone would do,” said DJ Larkin of @CANdrugpolicy. Yet, they and she "were arrested for drug possession.” @dustbobgod reports: filtermag.org/good-samaritan…

[WEBINAR] Decriminalization Across Movements: explore the history of criminalization faced by various communities, hear firsthand accounts from those directly affected & examine how grassroots movements & coalitions have worked together. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📢Calling Ontario residents ages 18+: Are you passionate about drug policy, patient engagement, or making a difference in health research? Join the ODPRN Citizens' Panel and make your voice heard! odprn.ca/about-us/odprn… #CitizenEngagement #HealthPolicy #volunteer

Guelph, Hamilton, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa, and Waterloo Region receive funding to #pilot HART Hubs advance of shutting down #proven #CTS sites. news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

STATEMENT December 13, 2024 Safer Municipalities Act : Unsafe and Unwelcome (4 panels)

Some details on Ontario's pre-election target - people without homes, plus associated charities and municipalities - c/o @ColinDMello and via this thread: x.com/DrugActionWR/s…

Bill 223 amounts to “death by legislation” for all CTS sites in Ontario By @matthewpbarker

@Alan_S_Hale hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/media-rel…

Sylvia Jones once said "people are not going to die" from the closure of supervised consumption sites, but her government didn't actually do an assessment to see if people will die or not. #onpoli The closure bill passed yesterday before the AG report. thetrillium.ca/news/health/on…

@JonSThompson Sounds a little like TBay's existing CTS operation, but with modern, state-of-the-art space, and to be built some years later, maybe.

@DrugStrategies What do you figure, drug strategy?

Ontario commits to building a "new assessment and observation area" at Thunder Bay regional hospital for those living with mental health and addictions. news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

Thanks to Toronto Board of Health for today's Emergency meeting, the intelligent and heartfelt delegations - and the leadership to come #CTS.

@EScrimshaw Oh excellent. Didn't catch the lib vote.

I wrote about this in today’s column but Bonnie Crombie’s MPPs voting to close a majority of Ontario’s safe injection sites while vowing to deal with homeless encampments later that night is the kind of thing that makes you think she has no fucking idea how to get from A to B

Eliminating Ontario's #CTS sites is a deadly, deliberate decision affecting all taxpayers. Today we asked the Auditor General to complete a value for money audit today with @WGDrugStrategy and concerned MPPs @MikeSchreiner and @AislinnClancyKC WATCH: cbc.ca/player/play/vi…

"When the minister says people will not die, that is absolutely not true." cbc.ca/news/canada/ki…