Pan-American Network of Drug User Activists

filtermag.org/panda-pan-amer… "So much death and pain, much of it so obviously connected. Drug-user networks connecting across the Americas will make us stronger, giving us the power to fight back as an interconnected, united front."

Supervised consumption sites need to do more to create less arbitrary and more culturally safe policies for people who use drugs. @matthew__bonn, Seff Pinch & Savannah Swann have the details. @DrugDecrim #DrugDecrimCanada #CdnPoli options-po.li/3reUE7E

policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/apri… “We need less arbitrary, less harmful and more culturally safe policies for people who use drugs at supervised consumption sites.” By myself, Seff Pinch, Savannah Swann, @CoreyRanger, & Sandra Ka Hon Chu via @IRPP.

Our paper describing emergency safe supply & managed alcohol program in COVID-19 isolation hotel shelters in Halifax is now published online in @DrugAlcoholDep ! doi.org/10.1016/j.drug…

Me and my 💯 Jason Mecredi, harm reduction and drug policy genius. Jason opened the first site in Saskatoon, myself first one in Atlantic…now on to bigger and better moves!

About halfway through this year I found a new source, the best guy I have ever dealt with. What’s more, he had practically sold everything—and he had the purest red fentanyl I ever tried. It was the best dope I have experienced. By @matthew__bonn: filtermag.org/fentanyl-batch…

"Until we get regulated safe supply everywhere, finding trusted unregulated vendors is the best we can do," writes @matthew__bonn. "We drug users need to share information about sources as much as possible to help each other through this ongoing crisis." filtermag.org/buying-drugs-o…

filtermag.org/buying-drugs-o… “We drug users need to share information about sources as much as possible to help each other through this ongoing crisis of drug poisoning deaths.” My latest via @Filter_Mag.

“Reddit discussions about buprenorphine associated precipitated withdrawal in the era of fentanyl” by Anthony Spadaro, @sarkerabeed, et al (2022) via Clinical Toxicology. Open Access Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #DailyDrugPolicy

Don't forget - abstract and scholarships for #INHSU2022 - taking place this October in #Glasgow + virtual - are now open. Find out more: inhsu.org/inhsu-2022/ #hcv #pwid #peoplewhousedrugs #HIV #covid #PHDlife #phdchat

inhsu.org/news/introduci… “The Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award has been developed by @INHepSU and @INPUD in remembrance of Jude Byrne, a globally recognised, powerful advocate who fought to advance the health and human rights of people who use drugs.”

vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/see… “Eris Nyx, @DULFBC co-founder, told V.I.A. that each user is asked if they overdosed from the drugs they were supplied at the event and no one ever has.”

inhsu.org/news/introduci… “The Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award has been developed by @INHepSU and @INPUD in remembrance of Jude Byrne, a globally recognised, powerful advocate who fought to advance the health and human rights of people who use drugs.”

filtermag.org/halifax-safe-s… “We were seeing firsthand the positive outcomes when people have safe housing, they have their substance-related needs met.” - Quote from @tdbrothers in my new @Filtermag_org piece…photo cred @tdbrothers.

"Internationally, policymakers are considering alternative, non-criminal responses to the possession of drugs for personal use, or ‘simple possession’.” By @alissa_greer, @Caitlin_Ona, @AlexStevensKent, @touesy,@AlisonRitter1 & myself. LINK: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #DrugPolicy

An emergency safe supply and managed alcohol program, paired with housing, was associated with low rates of adverse events and high rates of successful completion of the 14 day isolation period in COVID19 isolation hotel shelters. By @tdbrothers et al via medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

The drug war isn’t drug prevention The drug war isn’t harm reduction The drug war is interdiction The drug war is about fear The drug war is racist The drug war is killing kids The drug war is destroying lives The drug war is discrimination The drug war is the worst case scenario

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… Great read by @BonnieraeLarson, Ginette Salvalaggio, & @healthinthehmmr via the @globeandmail.

filtermag.org/cdc-overdose-d… “I think about people who didn’t overdose but who were also absolutely killed by the drug war. The people we lost to incarceration; treatable disease; medical racism; the cold. State violence and disinterest.” By @kastaliamedrano via @Filtermag_org.

🗣Urgent public health needs: compassion clubs and safer supply ft. @VANDUpeople @DULFBC

For over a year a group of organizations across Canada have been meeting to collaboratively create "Decriminalization Done Right" - A Rights Based Path for Drug Policy. Please check it out and share