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Tri-Cities Community Action Team Brings Attention to Ongoing Crisis on Overdose Awareness Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjPAZwWr6T4
New drop-in addiction recovery centre opens in North Vancouver
lhttps://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/new-drop-in-addiction-recovery-centre-opens-in-north-vancouver-9454721 If you’re looking for help in your recovery from substance-use issues, there’s a new…
TED MED – Carl Hart – Let’s Quit Abusing Drug Users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9HMifCoSko May 19, 2015 781,517 views • May 19, 2015 Carl Hart, Associate Professor of…
Healing Indigenous Hearts: training peer leaders for grief support groups after toxic drug poisoning deaths
Jul 26, 2024 https://www.fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/healing-indigenous-hearts-training-peer-leaders-for-grief-support-groups-after-toxic-drug-poisoning-deaths?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Purple%20lapel%20pins%20%20building%20relationships%20%20and%20more&utm_content=Purple%20lapel%20pins%20%20building%20relationships%20%20and%20more+CID_39a340db97b55ffcab9d763e50badd43&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20more A message from the FNHA’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer…
Cannabis could help people cut down or stop opioid use, research shows
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/12/weed-help-cut-opioid-use?_cldee=srCn3vQ0OZoKJNwmmwtvS24q2pV7-Ec6ko_dM1BNmCMSaB2tjEC3qJaIgRXEE6S0&recipientid=contact-68ab2b49ceb4ed11b596000d3a09c3d2-8c5a2a2f3f0443f783b61393da9c9730&esid=2214c21e-8359-ef11-bfe3-6045bd5e92cc USC study finds cannabis can help manage withdrawal symptoms, as well as cravings and…
What happens inside Metro Vancouver’s overdose prevention sites — and how they’re dealing with neighbours’ concerns
https://vancouversun.com/health/inside-bc-overdose-prevention-sites?_cldee=i-y3c2Mq_61v0oUbAIDpRXXTDi3RSbMMQ-ZcxI5ljMF7rfVNCxmcS_4Ve6Ml-2z-&recipientid=contact-68ab2b49ceb4ed11b596000d3a09c3d2-d9ea46039c794cfbbfb8be93e8867774&esid=623e8991-ce54-ef11-bfe3-6045bd5e92cc By Lori Culbert Published Aug 06, 2024 Last updated Aug 06, 2024 Lynda Fletcher-Gordon inside…
New drop-in addiction recovery centre opens in North Vancouver
At the North Shore Junction, clients can access services like counselling and relapse prevention without…
Where to get your drugs tested
https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Services/mental-health-and-substance-use/drug-checking—fourier-transform-infrared-spectrometers-ftir Find out what’s in your drugs. Drug checking is a harm reduction service. It…
B.C. gov’t expands addictions care
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/07/22/bc-addictions-model-expansion/ Speaking at a press event Monday, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside…
Prohibition is Killing People. Regulating Drugs is the Way Out
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/07/10/Prohibition-Killing-People-Regulating-Drugs-Way-Out Kora DeBeck and Perry Kendall 10 Jul 2024The Conversation Should heroin and cocaine be legally available to…
The Tri-Cities’ homeless challenges are “predictable”
https://www.tricitynews.com/local-news/predictable-coquitlam-mla-says-of-tri-cities-homelessness-9229670 Tri-City News StaffJul 16, 2024 10:05 PM The Tri-Cities’ homeless challenges are “predictable,” says…
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