International Overdose (and Drug Toxicity) Awareness Day takes place around the world every year on August 31st to honour those lost to the overdose crisis…
Cell Count is a quarterly newspaper published by PASAN, an abolitionist organization that focuses on harm reduction and HIV/AIDS support, education, and advocacy for currently…
Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs by Garth Mullins (Doubleday Canada, 2025) In a political moment when right-wing forces mobilize to dismantle even the…
In early July 2025, the Nova Scotia government abruptly terminated its contract with Out of the Cold (OOTC), a non-profit that had been operating two…
On June 4th, the Ontario government passed Bill 6, the so-called Safer Municipalities Act. Drug users experiencing homelessness can now be removed from encampments and…
This article first appeared in The Grind. It is republished with permission. To read the original, click here. “The first few days [after the closure]…
In December of 2024, the Ford government announced amendments to The Community Care and Recovery Act that would close supervised consumption sites (SCS) within 200…
Amidst the unregulated toxic drug supply emergency in the province that has killed over 16,000 people since 2016, alongside the manufactured onslaught against harm reduction…
The second week of May showed starkly the depths of hostility, even contempt, directed at drug users across the Lower Mainland of so-called British Columbia….
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