Matching this to Stats Can data (54% of kids in care) indicates that about 40% of youth drug deaths in BC were FNIM, despite those communities comprising only 4% of the population The prohibition of drugs is an instrument of genocide

Who’s going to tell Ian that we already have a “safe supply of alcohol”?

In closing - Encouraging us to be brave and to continue to push for change. Plea to participate in action. Let government know our hearts are broken at such loss. Simple but important action: show up. @OverdoseDay Aug 31.

Lapointe gives heartfelt credits to people and organizations fighting for change. ✌🏼 Don MacPherson ✌🏼 @guyfelicella ✌🏼 @leslie_mcbain & @momsstoptheharm ✌🏼 @SaferVic ✌🏼 @burek75

Encouraging us to not allow perfection to be the enemy of the good. 6 people per day die in BC due to OD death. If SS could reduce the number of these deaths at all, that would be an enormous good. Gov regulates all manner of substances. Drugs should not be the exception.

Lapointe stating clearly that claims of youth overdosing and dying on diverted #safesupply are fear based lies and the status quo upholds the unregulated market. Coroner’s Office monitors OD deaths very, very closely and there is no indication that SS is contributing to OD death

Lapointe now speaking to Select Standing Committee on Health Report Nov 22: Urgent call for rapid implementation of #safesupply but no (collective) rapid action taken. People who use drugs still left without options other than to access unregulated, toxic drug market.

Lapointe also speaking to a serious lack of evidence based treatment programs in BC, and how there are numerous examples of people going into enormous debts in trying to access treatment and recovery services. Desperate families remortgaging their homes.

Lisa Lapointe asking how BC could move toward and involuntary addictions treatment system when we don’t even have an accessible system of services. Also expressing concern about the potential for anti-indigenous violence with a system like this #BCCSU23

For all the BC OAT prescribers out there: in case you missed it, Sublocade no longer requires a special authority!

Jan ‘23: Chief Coroner’s Service reports that the Standing Committee on Health and 2 BC Coroner Service Review Panels are in agreement that we must rapidly improve access to prescribed Safer Supply & build robust system of evidence based care.

The BC Coroner’s Service clearly states in their summary of drug related deaths for 2022 that there is no indication that prescribed Safe Supply is contributing to illicit drug deaths. https://t.co/9DRLwlaE4D

The vast majority of #safesupply is accessed via prescription. Access to these programs is very limited esp when newer meds (to SUD context) are utilized. Sometimes ppl have to attend clinics multiple times a day to received witnessed doses by nurses, similar to iOAT programs.

Yeah, Bob.

But Poilievre loves living a drug-full life, he poses with a safe supply all the time

Love you mum! Goodnight, God-bless, Sleep tight, See you in the morning, And don’t get up that window. xoxo

I’m not religious or spiritual but long good-byes feel both wretched and holy. It feels like I should molt my skin, or pierce something, or cut my own bangs 🤷🏻‍♂️ I bought an Arc’teryx jacket from the outlet store when I was in the sad dizzies, so that will probably do for now.

The first time my 14 yo took over ‘goodnights’ for his nan, the ground opened and I started to float in the feeling that I’d been here before. A kind familiarity of sorts. 14 and his nan loved & understood each other intensely. He didn’t hesitate for a second to pick her up.

Goodbye reversal reminded me of Robert Munsch’s book, Love You Forever. I was really affected by that story when I was a kid because I immediately internalized a sense of foreboding that this day would eventually come. But when the time arrived I actually felt kind of prepared.

I always thought the bit about the window was to tell us not to climb out onto our rooftops, but it actually started when my mum was little becsause she and her siblings would climb up to their windows to wave to their friends when they were supposed to be in bed.