Erica Thomson has been barricaded in the office of the Chilliwack Union of Drug Users (CUDU) for five days. She is the president of the BC Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors, which sponsors the year-old Chilliwack group and helps fund their office space. Erica and a rotating group of CUDU…
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The Monster Smash: Breaking down the “meth epidemic” and barriers to stimulant…
Author’s Note: This article does not address the origins of the modern zombie, nor its appropriation from the…
BC NDP orders RCMP to shut down Ridge Meadows Overdose Prevention Site
In BC, the rapid expansion of harm reduction services has prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths…
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.…
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.