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How Buying My Drugs Online Has Been Working for Me
A reliable supply of drugs can save lives. That’s exactly why harm reductionists are pushing for widely accessible, regulated safe supplythroughout Canada and beyond. Until we get that, finding trusted unregulated vendors is the best we can do. 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.
Overdose Awareness Day: Drug Users Are Aware—What About Governments?
“The government needs to be made aware—in flesh-and-blood terms, not statistics—that every day, their citizens are dying from a tainted drug supply. Every day, people who use drugs must play Russian roulette with chemicals. Every day, they have to break the law, running all the risks to life and liberty that entails, to procure and consume a substance on which they may be dependent.”
Why the Drug User Liberation Front Gave Out Free, Checked Drugs in Vancouver
“The Drug User Liberation Front showed that safer supply can be implemented through multiple pathways including buyers clubs,” he told Filter. “Drug users were handing out free cocaine and opium. There was a lineup of over 200 people waiting patiently to receive their free drugs.”
Nova Scotians are still dying from the overdose crisis
Just as Nova Scotia tries its best to contain COVID, and Canada’s largest mass killing in recent history leaves 22 people dead from an unimaginable act of violence, there are other tragedies that have been swept under the rug amid the chaos.