Sabitlenmiş Tweet
Portugal , A Drug User's Paradise .
When the Canadian Drug Users are Tired of being Treated Like Prince and Princess , Maybe they Should Move There
English
Anthony Steves
1.4K posts
Anthony Steves
@steves_anthony
Cover and profile are from a Swiss documentary Zurich , blue light to deter injections , cover is Swiss OD mortality .
Katılım Ekim 2021
51 Takip Edilen24 Takipçiler
@Twolfrecovery @HarmReduction @KochinaRude Only outreach can be successful. With resources for ways out of the scene. People need a push. I was there.
People "bugging" for recovery are the only connection to a sane world.
English
@HarmReduction @KochinaRude Word is the term "harm reduction" is gonna be replaced with risk reduction. Probably because harm reduction still causes harm. 🤷♂️
English
🧵Tickets on sale now for NHRC's 30-year anniversary celebration in California! We're uplifting three decades of harm reduction, community, courage, & care on Friday, April 10. Hosted by Kochina Rude, the Bay Area’s #Narcan Queen, the evening will feature
bit.ly/NHRC30Celebrat…
English
@KeithNHumphreys Given Hep C has soared the distribution of syringe has very limited impact. Portugal started "Say no to a used syringe in 1993 . Was only 2007 (14 yrs later) that new cases dropped. However a place to get tested and connected was very useful. Portugal has 84% injectors with HepC
English
Harm reduction started in the 1980s when HIV was infinitely more deadly than opioid (heroin) use, so stopping the latter was de-prioritized to prevent the former. Today HIV is completely treatable and opioid use (fentanyl) is deadlier than ever. Need to update thinking to match.
English
English
Day 4 at the UN Commision on Narcotic Drugs. There's a radical element of NGOs funded by George Soros here who's sole purpose is to legalize drugs. Imagine being able to go to Walmart and buy fentanyl. That's what they want. It's disqualifying. @ONDCP @SaraCarterDC @elonmusk 🧵
Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 English
@KeithNHumphreys Toronto OD dropped with closing of the Safe Consumption sites. Lethbridge Alberta saw a decrease in OD when the ARCHES site closed.
x.com/DerekFinkle/st…
Derek Finkle@DerekFinkle
Given that data matters to Diana, she might also mention: the 199 suspected drug-related deaths in Ontario between July and September of 2025 are a 36% decrease from 2024. In June, there were six suspected fatal overdose calls in Toronto, a 74 percent decrease from June 2024.
English
@DerekFinkle There is a huge contrast between the Sydney and Melbourne sites, as noted by the Victoria police report
tpav.org.au/articles/rejec…
English
What I was trying to convey is that people on both sides of the issue here I have interviewed believe that Vancouver is unique in many respects. This refers to a report submitted to the city in 2016 by a group of doctors in west Toronto. It's a fair representation of this view.
Jordan@jlp8844
@DerekFinkle The Albertan review shows some concerning finding for the way ALBERTA'S SCSs are ran, but if other studies from places like Vancouver don't apply to Toronto, how do studies in small towns like Lethbridge apply? Especially when the authors admit that it's hard to make that leap?
English
@jsam10983741 You should call them and tell them.
When the politicians say they are building homes, does that mean they have to actually build them. Or can they contract?
English
Headline ~ "BC Ferries to build 7 new vessels"
Since when did BC Ferries own a shipyard to build vessels?
Who writes these headlines?
Just say BC Ferries will have vessels built for them.
globalnews.ca/news/10321061/…
English
English
@ScottScale2 @somerspsych I sure wish the young fellow who was found dead in a residential supportive recovery program has access to safe supply when he relapsed. A relapse shouldn’t be a death sentence.
English
Housing that concentrates people who are mentally unwell & formerly homeless together causes preventable crime + medical emergencies
This building has a consumption site
The developer & “safe supply” providers will do well
No one else though
This is stigma
Kenneth Chan@iamkennethchan
Another hurdle passed for the controversial #Kitsilano supportive housing project next to SkyTrain's future Arbutus Station. The City of Vancouver's Development Permit Board unanimously approved the project today. #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/2086…
English
@JohnSheard2 @somerspsych He was stunned. Staff ready to respond. But he quickly grabbed the bar and pulled it closed.
He then quickly turned to look down the hall at us, we pretended we didn't notice.
He then began to shake the door yelling "Let me Out"
Was so funny.
English
@JohnSheard2 @somerspsych The security door on the ward was activated from nurse station, but would swing closed.
Was a fellow in his 20's
Often he would go down and shake the door, sometimes violently, "Let me OUT" he would shout.
One day the door hadn't closed fully. When he shook the door it opened/1
English
The longer we delay, the greater the need for institutional capacity.
Acting now is in everyone’s interest.
Son of Josie.@survivor_ptsd
@guyfelicella @JayeeSofi @somerspsych We need a New Riverview. Many people are seriously Brain damaged from the Current Drugs out there. I don’t worry about Relapses cause I was a Heroin User there is no such thing out there. People are getting serious brain damage now and fast!
English
@somerspsych Can't legalize this
“It’s xylazine. Dealers are cutting it in because they’re trying to compete. They’re trying to have the best dope. And it’s awful to say, but as soon as someone dies, they flock to that dope,”
cheknews.ca/epidemic-of-ov…
English
Kitty is drawing attention to a class of opioids (2-Benzylbenzimidazole) that’s extremely potent and poorly regulated
The black market value of new opioids is highest in areas with policies that neglect risk factors for addiction
pubs-acs-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/doi/full/10.10…
English
@guyfelicella @carriemae68 @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO Not really looking at the exclusion of proximity such as sidewalks and parking lots. Also after injecting at the site and OD when being transported to or at the hospital.
See def. of unreg drug death at OPS
Here is another example Ottawa
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…
English
@steves_anthony @carriemae68 @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO There are lots of reasons why people don't use them. However the ones that do, it's a lot safer.
English
Thank you @GinnyRothTO
We used Public Supply of Addictive Drugs to describe our Govt’s policy.
Promoting addictive drugs as “safe” should arouse immediate suspicion.
Ginny Roth@GinnyRothTO
There’s no such thing as a safe injection site - The Hub thehub.ca/2023-07-31/gin…
English
@guyfelicella @carriemae68 @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO Again, my post was not as to "why" people aren't using them. The data shown for reversals at the site should mean there would be 25X that in that region from the people who do not use the site.
English
@guyfelicella @carriemae68 @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO should be 25X that occurring within a few KM of the injection site.
English
@guyfelicella @carriemae68 @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO Again, where did I claim I expected HR to eliminate mortality.
My posts are directed toward the lack of high priority criteria in HR.
There are no extra deaths where there are no injection sites. In fact the data shown above would mean that 4% injections taking place that there
English
@carriemae68 @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO Not the same at all
“It’s xylazine. Dealers are cutting it in because they’re trying to compete. They’re trying to have the best dope. And it’s awful to say, but as soon as someone dies, they flock to that dope,”
cheknews.ca/epidemic-of-ov…
English
@steves_anthony @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO My point is if people bought a beer - assuming it was regular beer - but SURPRISE - spiked with methanol - and they either die or wake in ICU blind and in liver/kidney failure. The problem isn’t the beer. The contamination with methanol is causing the deaths. This is the crisis.
English
@carriemae68 @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO My post for OD increasing was making the point HR wasn't working. Wasn't reducing harm.
U decide that means I need to prove that OD went up because of the injection site.
Your argument is useless
English
@carriemae68 @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO I am correct. You don't understand healthcare best practices.
You also avoiding, among other things is that they want what is dropping people.
Imagine if alcohol drinkers wanted methanol or what was dropping them.
U just using the same old tired argument to legalize talking pts
English
@carriemae68 @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO And therefore proved me to be right.
How do you know I went to the dentist then the pharmacy, and then found out what went wrong?
You need to go back to my orig post, which was a response to:
"watched many people die who entered recovery"
twitter.com/steves_anthony…
Anthony Steves@steves_anthony
@guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO How many injection site clients and workers are dying from OD at home and after they leave? Also how many are dying from injection related diseases? How many are dying early from brain damages? Using "all the tools" should include the analysis of mortality from these practices
English
@steves_anthony @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO Umm … I wrote a hypothetical situation where You went to the dentist and died from at#3 contaminated with morphine. Trying to see if you understood the impact of a toxic unregulated drug supply driving the increasing deaths.
English
@carriemae68 @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO LOL. How do you know he went to the dentist or the pharmacy?
English
@steves_anthony @guyfelicella @somerspsych @GinnyRothTO Again … the t#3 and the morphine ? Why did you die ? For using T#3s ?
English