How do we soothe human pain? How can we best end the misery caused by isolation and alienation? For this editorial we wanted to focus on how our current environments—both social and physical—create pain, fuel the need for distraction, and produce addiction. When land is stolen, families are torn…
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Health & Harm Reduction
Responses to the overdose crisis must include an end to prohibition
People across Canada are continuing to die at staggering rates from illicit drug overdoses. Advocates have…
First Words from First Responders: On the Frontlines of Harm Reduction and the…
While governments make pronouncements and dither during the overdose public health emergency, who would you think…
Social work as social control
We can learn a great deal from the state responses to Super InTent City (SIC). In contracting the Portland Hotel…
Inside the jail of supportive housing
Since Canada’s federal government cut regular social housing construction in 1993, homelessness has become the…
Everyone Is An Addict!
Everyone has an addiction
of some kind
Not wanting to admit it
Only playing dear or blind…
Police and Naloxone – Prioritizing Those with Badges
This week the public learned that the Royal Canadian Mountain Police will soon be carrying nasal Naloxone (or…
August 31st Overdose Awareness Day – A Day of Reflection, a Push for Action
Across the world people recognize August 31st as International Overdose Awareness Day. From Vancouver to…
BC’s Public Health Emergency Update: By the Editors
Fentanyl continues to dominate the street drug market across the country, which led to BC declaring a public…
CCAP working on “Community Vision for Mental Health”
The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) is working with Downtown Eastside residents to create a Community…