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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.
Splitting and sharing at overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites: What we learned
“In 2020, Health Canada started to hold consultation meetings with key stakeholders to review federal regulations governing overdose prevention sites (OPS) and supervised consumption sites (SCS). While multiple recommendations and suggestions were brought forward, one that was repeatedly identified by people who use drugs and other stakeholders as being of top concern was the inability to split and share drugs within OPS/SCS settings.”
How UK Club Bouncers Prey On People Who Use Drugs
“Decriminalizing or legalizing drugs would undoubtedly cut down on this kind of exploitation—you can’t really blackmail someone in the same way if what they’re doing is not a criminal offense. Though Woods emphasized the need for a regulated market, he believes there are many smaller productive steps that could be taken in the meantime.”
Why I Think We Need to Move Beyond “Harm Reduction”
But it was difficult because a recording of Al Green’s 1972 classic, “Love and Happiness,” blasted from the sound system. “Something that can make you do wrong, make you do right,” Green sang with a great deal of sorrow combined with the rapture expressed by a true believer. His brilliant treatment of the anguish and joy that can result from being in love hit me like an amphetamine.
Blueberries, Xanny Bars, Clazzys: My Anxiety-Driven Benzo Journey
“I have been doing Valium since the age of 16. They were called “blueberries” where I was from, and there were so many in our high school in Nova Scotia, the local news even covered it.”
Deadly fentanyl overdoses could rise in Halifax during the pandemic
When Halifax police warned the public in June about a potentially deadly type of fentanyl on the street that looks like sidewalk chalk, they didn't mention they were looking to pin Tyrone Zammit's overdose death in a Bedford motel room on someone else.
How Prisons Are Blocking Incarcerated People’s Stimulus Checks
While some prisoners used contraband phones to file online, others asked family members or friends to file their tax forms online. Others asked for the checks to be mailed to a residential address rather than the prison.
My Friend Was Abducted Into Forced Addiction Treatment in Mexico
For the activists of PANDA—whose mission is to advocate for people who use drugs in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, engaging with many people in different parts of Mexico in the process—the kidnapping of one of our own, because that’s what it was, brought home one of the many ways the global war on people who use drugs violates our rights. Not that we needed any reminder.