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January 2024

Red Deer is galloping toward a cliff
Heralding a new phase in the Alberta government's war on harm reduction and hostile takeover of municipalities, closing the city's overdose prevention…
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Euan Thomson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “FREE DULF. NO MORE DYING. NO MORE DRUG WAR 2024.”
A message from the Drug User Solidarity Committee and allies around the world.
Media Advisory: Rally and March for Safe Supply
The rally will begin at 1:30pm MST at the war memorial in Central Memorial Park, Calgary on January 16, 2024.
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Euan Thomson
Up next...'experts' debate the ethics of reducing drug poisoning deaths
A study in a top medical journal shows overwhelming positive impacts of regulated hydromorphone prescribing for people who use opioids in BC. Will the…
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Euan Thomson
Harm reduction activists have our trust; without their activism, we would all be left to die
Ominously rejected by National Post Opinion, a letter from people who use supervised consumption sites in Toronto provides a direct counter to…
De-prescribing the right to life, liberty & security
A study on Canadian opioid de-prescribing charts the course of the crisis since 2000 and provides a stark warning against the looming elimination of…
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Euan Thomson

December 2023

Drug Data Decoded Year 1 in Review
Drug Data Decoded launched in January 2023. Over 64 stories, it has blown the cover of key structures holding the drug poisoning crisis in place. Let's…
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Euan Thomson
Alberta drug policy is executing unhoused people
Across the province, risk of death from unregulated drug poisoning among people experiencing houselessness is skyrocketing.
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Euan Thomson
Chief McFee's unforgivable sin
Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee has been signalling mass decampment for months. A scheduled Christmas massacre woke up the city to his intentions.
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Euan Thomson
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
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Euan Thomson
The Alberta government is privatizing recovery data
The government gave sole source contracts to a private addiction recovery house in BC for an app that obscures patient outcome data from the public, the…
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Euan Thomson
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