Andrew Ivsins

Full access to our commentary on the need for #SafeSupply to tackle the overdose crisis link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1b5oy3PEroSm… 1/2

After one year of operating our heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine compassion club, we have analyzed our data and presented preliminary findings here.

We're relieved to see this motion pass. Safe inhalation is a critical part of harm reduction today. Between 2017 and 2021, around 44% of all drug poisoning deaths in B.C. were related to smoking. We need to bring people inside to safety and community. vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

Pierre Poilievre was willing to meet w/ ultra-right members of the trucker convoy but not w/ moms who've lost their children to drug overdoses ctvnews.ca/politics/drug-…

@Aaron_R_Bailey @BCCSU @VCHhealthcare @VANDUpeople @PHScss @UVic_CISUR @CMAPStudy @fnha @CityofVancouver @ParkBoard You two were great. Deftly handled the mishap and gave a wonderful presentation of the amazing work being done.

🚨New @crackdownpod ep. A right wing moral panic against safe supply & "diversion" is spreading. We sometimes share prescription meds w ppl who need em. We do it for solidarity, or survival. But Poilievre wants to be PM by scaring you & scapegoating us. crackdownpod.com/episodes/episo…

@vbacak Thanks for having me, and for the thoughtful conversation. Happy to talk drugs anytime!

@dustbobgod Whoever scheduled my kids year-long 6am volleyball practice should receive a life sentence

hello i would like to challenge the legality of 7am

Really excited that after almost 3 years since I started working on it, my paper w/ @RS_McNeil @jennav5 and Jade Boyd on how drug checking knowledge is produced by an array of actors in an OPS is published 😍 authors.elsevier.com/a/1fy2t-CmUvrPg

VANDU Sgt-at-Arms Samona Marsh calling bullshit on the 'Lepard Report': “I’ve done crystal meth every day for the last 20 years, & I’m not going around beating people up. What we need is a proper, safe supply. We need proper housing, sleep, & food.” vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

About six people die every day in B.C. from toxic, illicit drugs. Yesterday, five just in Kelowna alone. And yet, few signs from provincial, federal government that we are still very much in a public health emergency.

@RS_McNeil @kellyrayknight @DrKimSue @prof__lopez @RNBluthenthal Amazing, congrats!

Our new paper offers insight into reasons people living in housing with a supervised consumption space choose to use drugs alone in their rooms, important in the context of an ongoing drug poisoning crisis where most fatal overdoses are happening when people are alone indoors.

TODAY at 2:45PM: @vancouverpd constables attacked and violently arrested DTES residents, VANDU and @pivotlegal organizers after a day of peaceful observation of the Hastings Tent City decampment.

Great article featuring our research on "goofball" use, highlighting how this practice is used for a variety of beneficial and meaningful reasons, including for pleasure - something that is often overlooked when talking about drug use among structurally vulnerable people.

my cousin was one of those 6 people on friday. if he had had access to a safe supply, it wouldn’t have had to end this way. we don’t need more consultation right now, we need safe, clean drugs on the street today

Our Overdose Prevention team says they've been seeing a lot of opioid-meth co-injection in Kensington here in Philly. This paper helps explain why some folks prefer this combination & what service providers should understand about it @DrKimSue @ivsins @SwolleSpirit @KinnaThakarar

“The practice and embodiment of “goofballs”: A qualitative study exploring the co-injection of methamphetamines and opioids” by @ivsins et al (2022) via @ijdrugpolicy…great read on poly substance use! Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #DrugPolicy

@geoffbardwell @VancouverFdn Congrats Geoff!

filtermag.org/benzo-dope-ove… “Both tranq dope and benzo dope have serious implications for the overdose crisis and for the ability of people who use drugs to keep themselves safe” @JosephRFriedman said in my latest piece via @Filtermag_org.