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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.
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.
Kidnappings and Overdoses: Mexico's Lost Drug Users Remembered on Day of the Dead
Mexicans use the annual Day of the Dead tradition on the first two days of November to remember their deceased loved ones. Here at one of the country’s few outreach centers for addicted drug users, it’s not just the victims of growing fentanyl overdoses that are being honored and mourned. Increasingly, it’s drug users who have vanished following a spate of kidnappings – allegedly carried out by the police.
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.
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.
Decriminalizing drug use as we contain the coronavirus is the humane thing to do
In 2018, there were 83,483 drug arrests in Canada. That amounts to approximately 228 drug arrests on any given day.
We’ve been hearing a lot about police enforcing health protection acts during the coronavirus pandemic. But what are they doing about personal drug use of controlled substances during the pandemic?
Authorities should be considering the decriminalization of drugs during COVID-19 and implementing safe supply programs. Drug users are already one of the most marginalized and stigmatized populations in society without a pandemic, and unless we decriminalize drug use, they will bear the brunt of another deadly disease.
Russian Drug Users Describe Life and Trends During the Pandemic
“Russia infamously has some of the world’s most draconian drug policies. As one study framed it: “The government’s official policy towards drug use is one of ‘social intolerance,’ which seeks to legitimize and encourage societal ill treatment of people who use drugs.”
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.”