In BC, the rapid expansion of harm reduction services has prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths during a 20-month period, according to a report from the BC Centre for Disease Control. There were 2,177 deaths during this period, but without overdose prevention sites, the number of…
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Addicts & Adults: Beautiful Boy, Gabor Maté as Doctor-Daddy & Safe…
“What about the children!?” the comment-section curmudgeons screamed in response to headlines announcing BC’s…
Another Day In Court: Pharmaceuticals, Prohibition & Passing The Buck
When the BC Government recently announced it would sue over 40 opioid manufacturers (including Purdue) for their…
Spontaneous Overdose Prevention is Not Enough
On June 27th, six weeks after the founding of Discontent City, we experienced an overdose related death.…
A victory in the fight to abolish supportive housing
At the end of May 2018, residents of the Johnson Street supportive housing building in Victoria won a…
Life After Death – Getting Harm Reduction Activism Out Of The Grave
The news that March 2018 holds the second highest overdose fatalities in the history of British Columbia is…
Homelessness and the Overdose Crisis are Designed this Way
Dwayne always tells me that he didn’t like me when he first met me. He says he couldn’t figure out what my angle…
No Pill For This Ill: The Downtown Eastside community launches a report and vision…
In mid-April 2018, the Downtown Eastside community in Vancouver, B.C. launched a report and vision for mental…
Back to the War on Drugs
The fentanyl overdose epidemic is a front in the escalating war between the State and the poor in western Canada.
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…