AAWEAR
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We are a group of people with lived experience of drug use. Our mission: to improve lives through harm reduction advocacy, peer support and service navigation.
Alberta
Joined September 2019
Great news out of Alberta ‼️ Court Injunction obtained against Red Deer Overdose Prevention Site rollback. OPS are healthcare facilities for people who use drugs and rolling them back or closing them means people will use alone and overdose. https://t.co/0SlRfEDdhn
drugdatadecoded.ca
The first legal decision favouring supervised consumption site users in Alberta since 2020 could turn the tide against five years of site closures.
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🚨PAPER RELEASE - LINK BELOW🚨 We present our third academic paper, a dive into the now-shuttered Compassion Club and Fulfillment Centre. What once stood as a safe haven, offering dignity and hope in a society bent on punishment, has been crushed under legal pressures and
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Join us as we discuss healthcare access leading up to drug toxicity deaths in #Ontario and share key insights from our upcoming collaborative report with @PublicHealthON 🗓️January 9, 2025 ⏰11:30am ET https://t.co/lygtS27uFq
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AAWEAR’s Lethbridge Chapter, Courage, is doing a short donation drive leading up to their next Community Day event! Please bring washed items to The Network Building (515 7th St S, Lethbridge, AB T1J 2G8) for Saturday, November. 16th at 12 pm!
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Join us for this webinar tomorrow (Oct 22)! How do health car providers impede or facilitate access to and engagement in care?
📢Have you registered for our webinar yet? Join us on Tuesday, 1 p.m. ET to hear from people who use drugs (PWUD) & learn compassionate and effective communication techniques to support PWUD when they access health care. Learn more & register now: https://t.co/6ViHynDTb2
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As we approach World Mental Health Day on October 10th, it’s important to explore the complex nature of our mental health and how we can better manage it. One common mental health issue facing individuals is depression.
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Calgary must expand SCS' to save lives, reduce public drug use, and make our communities safer. Closing these sites won’t fix the crisis. Sign here to show City Council you want safe neighbourhoods: https://t.co/erl5czTdZI
#ableg #yyccc #abpoli
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So far, there are 1,155 signatures, including people from every ward in the city (over 30% - that's over 360 people - in Ward 7 and Ward 8!), and throughout the province and country. There are 46...
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Jasper Place Wellness Centre has not operated on Stony Plain Road for over a year. @BoyleStreet now operates at our old Stony Plain Road location. For questions about their services, please contact them directly.
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But for people who do use drugs problematically or are struggling with addiction, it's crucial they have on-demand access to effective substance use disorder treatment based in evidence, health, equity, and human rights.
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Want to know what it's like to get your drugs checked at Substance? Nervous about coming into our space? Check out this video explaining how #drugchecking works at storefront in #yyj. #harmreduction
https://t.co/4Uv9QIWbJo
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Our 4th skill-share is happening next Thursday, July 4th at 12pm PST on Zoom! Join us as we sit down with our former board member, Jennie Pearson (CGSHE) to talk about her media toolkit that was created especially for s*x workers. Register here: https://t.co/1xVsFkzKBt
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The critics love to say: “Harm reduction has failed! Look how many more people live on the streets and commit crimes since the introduction of harm reduction!” 👉 Harm reduction has been in use in North America since the 1980s. 👉 The first drug treatment centre opened in
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Current state of journalism in Canada: the National Post falsely accuses Dr. @andreasereda of lying, then quietly changes their headline & edits their article because they were the ones lying about a widely advertised AGM posted in full online being a 'closed door' meeting
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Edmonton! Join us for Support Don’t Punish 2024! Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 Tag a friend you want to see there, and tell us what #SupportDontPunish means to you!
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Visited a couple of consumption sites this week (though I didn’t personally consume psychoactive substances at either one). One sells - and celebrates! - regulated drugs, and the other allows you to use unregulated drugs safely. One is socially acceptable and the other isn't.
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Do you have plans on Saturday, June. 15th? If not, consider joining AAWEAR’s Calgary Chapter, Grateful or Dead for their scheduled Community day event! All are welcome to attend! We will meet behind the SORCe building (316 7th Ave SE, Calgary) at 11 a.m before heading out.
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June. 2nd, is known as International SW's day - a time aimed towards creating discussions on the exploitative working conditions and lack of legal safeguards for SW. SW is both a racial justice and a gender justice issue. Check out our other socials to learn more!
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In June, we honour National Indigenous History Month with June. 21st representing National Indigenous Peoples day. Check out our other socials to read the full post!
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