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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.
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.
Our Need for a Safe Supply of Drugs Includes Stimulants
COVID-19 has made a severe overdose crisis much worse. Border closures have caused major disruptions to drug supplies, increasing the need to “cut” the existing supply with substances such as fentanyl or benzodiazepines. Social distancing requirements have reduced the capacity and reach of lifesaving harm reduction programs. And more people are having to use their drugs alone, with no one to respond if they overdose.
Safe Consumption Means Safe Inhalation, Too: An All-Inclusive Model
“As a former crack cocaine user, I’ve been on both ends of sharing a glass stem. I know how people experiencing stimulant dependency may be more inclined to take risks, like sharing pipes or having unprotected sex. So I’ve been excited to learn more about a project in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s largest city, that includes a center for safely smoking substances.”
How we can help keep people who use drugs alive during COVID-19
“As someone who uses drugs and very recently experienced an overdose, I know how important it is to not use alone. In July, I was saved by two people who administered naloxone and performed CPR, including rescue breathing until paramedics responded. Like my overdose, most overdoses are accidental and most are preventable.”
‘MDMA likely laced with fentanyl leads to overdose and death in Halifax’
The city of Halifax mourns this week after the fatal overdose of 15-year-old Miya Harris.
It’s believed Harris’ overdose was caused by MDMA (AKA Molly) laced with fentanyl—two drugs that should never go together.
Harris’ death was preventable: the downstream result of the criminalization of drugs which leads to increased uncertainty of the current drug market which has seen a rise in toxic and deadly drugs being cut into traditionally safer drugs like Molly.
