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@mysticfaechild
Be who you are. My daughter’s first day out at work was nerve wracking. Hope your employer is supportive. My daughter now has a new job where she can be who she is. Hugs from someone’s mom.
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He stands with truckers who occupied the city but won't meet with grieving moms holding a peaceful vigil on Parliament Hill.
Maybe he is scared to look us in the eye as we call out his lies?
@PierrePoilievre
does not care if our loved ones live or die.
#cdnpoli
#SafeSupply
Just talked with hundreds of cheerful, peaceful, salt-of-the-earth, give-you-the-shirt-off-their-back Canadians at the trucker protest.
They choose freedom over fear.
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This home was destroyed in
#yeg
today in another encampment takedown.
This home belongs to a young indigenous artist and her brother. They keep a tidy camp and can’t understand why they were displaced with nowhere to go
@edmontonpolice
@CityofEdmonton
#yegsweeps
#stopthesweeps
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Today my son Danny would be 31.
He taught me much in his short life, about stopping to look for 4-leaf clover & always helping others.
He taught me more since he died.
#Harmreduction
saves lives.
#RecoveryWorks
for the living.
Miss you sweet.
Happy Angel Birthday.
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My amazing daughter saved the life of a young man on her way home after working a 12 hour shift at the
@LookoutSociety
#SCS
in
#YTJ
.
Took 3 doses of Naloxone & CPR. Thankfully a nurse who was driving by stoped and took over calls to 911.
Harm reduction workers are my heroes.
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MSTH stands with DULF.
"We asked Health Canada for permission to do it legally and they said no. None of us want to be outlaws in this but they forced us to. I can't believe two of my friends got arrested for saving lives,"
@garthmullins
said.
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In two hours a vote to end
#SafeSupply
is happening in the House of Commons.
This vote determines if the small number of people with access to safe supply will live or die.
SAVING LIVES AND FOLLOWING THE EVIDENCE SHOULD NOT BE POLITICIZED BY ANY PARTY.
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Another member of our community, an advocate who influenced policy, lost a SECOND child.
The pain and the anger we feel can not be measured or put in words.
Why, Why, Why are politicians fucking with us while our loved ones die?
Is there nobody brave enough to do what's right?
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"The co-founder of a network of mothers whose children died of drug overdoses
@leslie_mcbain
says she wants to speak with Conservative Leader
@PierrePoilievre
about his opposition to prescribing a safer supply of opioids to those living with addiction."
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Being queer was illegal
Having an abortion was illegal
Consumption sites were illegal
Breaking the law and civil disobedience is how we change unjust laws.
History will prove DULF right. Meanwhile those more concerned about elections than lives let our loved ones die.
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“This is our land, our treaty right and we lived in tents long before you got here.” Camp leader.
Residents of the camp slated for removal in
#yeg
resist. Their leader demands to meet with Mayor
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
and
@DMMcFee
.
#yegcc
#stopthesweeps
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Indigenous People Are 7 times more likely to die from drug poisoning than settlers.
On the National Day of Reconciliation
#NDTR2023
we call for reconciliaction to end the
#DrugPoisoningCrisis
.
There is no reconciliation while so many families mourn.
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The Conservative motion to end
#safesupply
was defeated by a vote of 209 to 113.
We thank all politicians or all parties who voted for life and evidence!
The MPs of the
@CPC_HQ
who ALL voted for this motion today will be hearing from their constituents.
#safesupplysaveslives
In two hours a vote to end
#SafeSupply
is happening in the House of Commons.
This vote determines if the small number of people with access to safe supply will live or die.
SAVING LIVES AND FOLLOWING THE EVIDENCE SHOULD NOT BE POLITICIZED BY ANY PARTY.
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It's minus 17, minus 24 with windchill in
#yeg
, yet
@edmontonpolice
and
@CityofEdmonton
clear the shelters people have winterized, only to move s block a way.
A senseless and harmful act, and a waste of resources that could go toward housing people.
#yegcc
#stopthesweeps
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#IOAD2021
An image to break your heart.
82-year-old Ian Hignell in Lynn Valley BC (NothVan ) helps draw chalk outlines at the office of
@SusieChant_nvs
for the “Still Dying - Do you See Us Yet?” action.
Ian mourns his 24-year-old grandson Tyrell, a victim of failed drug policy.
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This week MSTH cofounder
@leslie_mcbain
and our moms met with
@jyduclos
@Carolyn_Bennett
@theJagmeetSingh
@ElizabethMay
@GordJohns
and other MPs to discuss ways to address the drug poisoning crisis.
Who is absent after repeated invitations?
@PierrePoilievre
!
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.
@TheCurrentCBC
this morning you talk about
#decriminalizing
PEOPLE who use drugs, yet you interview the BC coroner and a cop. Why do you not give a voice to the people most affected by this?
Talk to
@kwardvancouver
@garthmullins
or
@nicolemluongo
.
Anyone from
@VANDUpeople
!
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"All options are on the table,” says AB Minister about involuntary care.
Not for us!
Why we, together with our allies, strongly oppose involuntary care is outlined in our letter to Minister Ellis.
Please add your name to those that oppose.
#ableg
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Breaking: No criminal charges against ARCHES Lethbridge. The "missing funds" were accounted for. Bad record-keeping yes, but no criminal act. The government had many options to address this other than cutting funding and shutting down the site.
#ableg
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@Diana_C_McNally
We operate nearly 40 peer support groups across Canada for families who support loved ones who use substances or mourn someone they love. We do this with a 165,000 federal grant that is just about to run out. 💔
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I am called out on twitter by people who are part the “recovery community” and who fight against harm reduction.
To be clear over 2+ yrs on MOERC, with 1 to 2 meeting days per month I received $0 compensation. I am proud of that life saving work.
#abpoli
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I am overwhelmed and grategul by the 55+ people who followed me today. Thank you all. Over 3000 followers now. I thank those who fight for an inclusive and just world. I appreciate those who agree respectfully & block those who are threatening or harmful. For our kids. 💜
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In partnership with other human rights and drug policy organizations, we have developed an open letter advocating for sensible
#DrugPolicy
reform,
#HarmReduction
, and an end to the ineffective measures of the failed
#WarOnDrugs
.
#SupportDontPunish
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from parents who have buried their children because of unregulated drugs
@ABDanielleSmith
.
Knowledge is power and harm reduction saves lives.
If your kid uses drugs (some always do,for whatever reason) would you not want to keep them as safe as possible?
#abpoli
This is simply outrageous.
There is no such thing as safe meth or crack use. We will be reviewing funding agreements with the organization who felt it was appropriate to teach Medicine Hat teenagers how to use illicit and deadly drugs.
Link to story:
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We call for a Forensic Audit into Private Recovery Industry and Ties to BC United
Attention: Honourable Niki Sharma, Attorney General
Via
@MainlanderNews
#bcpoli
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The roses are white
That I leave at his grave
He might still be alive
If governments were brave
I prefer red roses
And violets of blue
I'm advocating safer supply
So you don't lose a child too
#HealthPolicyValentines
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On this
#IWD2021
I send my love to all women who use, work in and fight for
#HarmReduction
.
You are amazing and have taught me so much.
I am also thankful to each and every of our many
#MSTH
warrior women. You are so strong & have turned your pain into advocacy.
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For
#IOAD2020
billboards in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal will showcase our loved ones for the month of August.
Eric with the infectious smile (top photo, AB) was 19.
Danny, a talented chef (my youngest son) was 25.
#EndOverdose
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Ask why that person using on the train: Maybe because they have no safe place to go? (SCS closed) Maybe because they want to be found if they go down? Maybe because they don't want to die?
Plus there is no risk to other passengers, other than having to call 911. Carry Naloxone!
A student provided this photo today which while taking the LRT from the university. She was fearful of the open drug use & wanted to share to the public what is occurring.
#publicsafety
@CityofEdmonton
@yeglrt
@YEGMayorOffice
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So proud of our moms on parliament hill tonight at the
#StarVigil4Jordan
.
Remembering those we lost to toxic drugs, including those who, like Jordan, died in prison. And those we still fight for. Thanks to
@GordJohns
@Carolyn_Bennett
@j_pedneault
and all our allies and friends
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We received this request for media response and declined because the pre-fabricated narrative fails to fit the evidence or address the crisis at hand.
@globalnews
Failed drug policies and ineffective government response are what are destroying communities and families.
#media
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“Let’s be clear. These parent-formed organizations are being used by those who profit from racist drug-war policies. They are being used by organizations and politicians who are weaponizing fentanyl to further their agendas.“
💜
@Broken_No_More
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Ask our Edmonton mom
@frecklegoddess
of
@4bHarmReduction
outreach team what its like to reverse your child's overdose on the street.
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@PierrePoilievre
Many of our families mourn a 13 year-old, 14 year-old , 15 year-old, 16 year-old, 17 year-old, 18 year-old. 19 year-old.
From toxic drugs, not
#safesupply
!
All drug poisoning death are tragic and need preventing.
Stopping safe supply is not the way to do it.
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“Helping them get well”
works only for the living.
Naloxone/Narcan is a game changer for families not having to arrange funerals.
No amount of ideological rhetoric changes that.
Thousands of lives saved. Game changer for us.
Narcan is a “game-changer”?
For Benzos?
For Tranq?
For Homelessness?
For Unemployment?
No No No No
Helping people get well is the only “game-changer” worth touting
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I want every politician claiming that drug poisoning deaths are “trending down” to spend a day with the family was grieving, ideally on their child’s birthday or the anniversary of their death.
Better yet, come and help us arrange the funerals.
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@hakique
I wish my son Danny had access to harm reduction services to keep him alive. He would have had a chance.
It is not harm reduction or recovery.
It’s both.
One is not possible without the other.
Putting one against the other is irresponsible and not based on evidence.
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I would like a chance to see the research against consumption services
@jkenney
.
All the research I am familiar with supports the medical efficacy, especially the life saving role of
#SCS
.
Do you have citations (published, peer reviewed) for said research?
#abpoli
Jason Kenney telling reporters that there is substantial research against consumption sites and harm reduction treatment. Saying drugs don’t help drug addicts quit drugs.
#yyc
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#SeeBeyond
#SeeTheLives
A DRUG CRISIS IS KILLING THE PEOPLE WE LOVE.
We won't be quiet. We won't be ashamed.
There's so much we understand now that we didn't before, and we wish we could talk to them about it.
Love you forever and always Danny!
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“The four presented a united front in support of a safe supply of drugs and their determination to debunk what they called polarizing rhetoric about who is accessing it and its impact on B.C. communities.”
#SafeSuppySavesLives
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We support this decision not to legitimize a rigged process. We had faithfully participated in the AB SCS review but our words and our evidence were excluded from the report.
#SafeSupply
is not and should not be partisan. It is about saving.
#ableg
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Our cofounder
@leslie_mcbain
is still in Ottawa and prepared to meet with you
@PierrePoilievre
!
What are you waiting for?
The experiment has failed. It's time to end Trudeau's failed hard-drug supply project.
My plan to fix it:
- Fund recovery & treatment
- Stop taxpayer funded narcotics
- Sue Big Pharma for causing opioid epidemic & use proceeds for rehab
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@PierrePoilievre
you got mail. The moms are coming to Ottawa June 1.
We want to meet with you to discuss how the drug poisoning crisis is affecting families.
You go our email and DMs are open. Name the time and we will be there.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
I lost my child
And so might you
Unless we learn
And change what we do
#regulate
substances
#HealthPolicyValentines
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Open letter to
@Carolyn_Bennett
in response to the Court of Queens Bench's decision to reject our request for an injunction on the Alberta regulation for consumption services.
We call for a meeting & the following urgent action. Thread
#cdnpoli
#ableg
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Thank you
@GordJohns
for trying, for understanding that this should not be about party politics.
This is not the end for us. Anyone who has buried a child knows how to fight on.
#StopTheHarm
#BillC216
#DecriminalizeAlready
.
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While the coroners service calls for "access without a prescription to the class of opioid & stimulant drugs", the government shuts down and criminalizes DULF.
This is a travesty, a crime, in light of the fact that every day in BC almost 6 families plan funeral.
#DULFsavesLives
B.C. has now surpassed 13,000 toxic drug deaths since April 2016. The Coroners Service is calling for safe supply expansion that includes "access without a prescription to the class of opioid and stimulant drugs."
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We measure success not by the number of treatment beds but by lives saved. As long as the deaths are increasing it's a failure.
Happy Holidays.
We miss our loved ones, those we lost and those we worry about.
Do you miss someone?
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This was the decade that changed my life forever.
Losing my youngest son Danny (25 years young) to fentanyl poising after trying to help him deal with problematic substance use, without the right tools and knowledge.
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Anyone showing or sharing videos of people who use drugs without the persons‘ consent will be blocked.
Not interested in talking to you.
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@demetriosnAB
@jasonluan88
I am glad you were able to find such a diverse team for your review of the post-secondary education system.
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The debate in the House of Commons this morning is disheartening.
These are the lives of the people we love on the line.
We thank all politicians who speak out for evidence and for life.
Shame on those who spread lies.
#safesupply
means life and
#StigmaKills
#cdnpoli
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We are an organization of
#MothersAndOthers
and most of our members and advocates are women. On
#InternationalWomensDay
💜 we acknowledge women who fight to end the
#warondrugs
and all people who stand in solidarity with us.
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We worked hard to make this happen. SCS Opening tomorrow in
#yeg
. Saving lives and building relationships. Thank you AMSISE members
@StreetworksAB
@BoyleStreet
and
@GoAHealth
@GovCanHealth
@bpaynemla
@GPTaylorMRD
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As long as politicians and so-called experts misidentify the problem as “addiction” rather than the toxic supply people of all a ages will die in increasing numbers.
Young people who experiment will not be saved by more treatment
@JM_Whiteside
.
#bcpoli
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A Thread on
#DrugPolicyDeathsAB
WHAT IF YOU COULDN’T JUST REPORT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED? WHAT IF YOU HAD TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT EACH PERSON WHOSE LIFE WAS ENDED BY ALBERTA’S DRUG POLICY FAILURES?
1000 people in six images.
1: "Sarcastic and funny..."
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Today on
#MorhersDay
we remember the moms who’s kids won’t be home, or who lost their children.
You are always a mom.
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It’s not an
#opioidcrisis
it's a
#drugpoisoning
crisis.
It's the policies that are that brought illicit drugs that are fatal, not the substance.
Anyone who ever needed Opiods knows.
They help in managing physical and emotional pain.
Do you have a story to share?
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For us, the
#WarOnDrugs
comes at great personal cost and it is a failure on many levels, yet governments double down. Organized crime is making a killing, literally.
Time to call it out.
Time for change.
Time for regulated alternatives. Not doing so will be deadly.
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Who do you want to believe?
The experts who practice, research and publish in the best medical journals, or politicians, newspaper columnists and docs with financial conflicts creating moral panic.
The evidence is clear
#safesupply
saves the lives.
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Deaths are in the rise because governments fail to understand that it’s NOT an “addictions crisis” but a toxic drug supply crisis.
Until everyone will have access to a regulated supply more people will die, more families will plan funerals.
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Thank you
@avnishnanda
in the name of all families who have loved ones living unhoused in
#yeg
and other communities.
It should not take courts to stop cruel injustice but we are glad they did for now thanks to your care and hard work!
Waiting for the next ruling.
💜🔥💜
Court grants an interim interim injunction granted against
@CityofEdmonton
and
@edmontonpolice
, preventing them from clearing the approximately 150 encampment structures that they proposed to evict on Monday morning.
Injunction without prejudice, pending more evidence from EPS
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#DULFlives
Please read, sign and share this letter in support of the Drug User Liberation Front.
One of the people who was arrested is the MSTH BC director Jeremy Kalicum.
We stand in solidarity with our director and DULF!
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Happy new year!
“We must replace the entire illicit drug supply with regulated substances accessible to all”
@kwardvancouver
Anything less means death.
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The conduct of
@elenoresturko
is reprehensible.
We ask for her to publicly apologize and refrain from aligning herself with individual who misrepresent the facts to produce harmful material for their personal gain.
Our loved ones are not click-bait!
#stigmakills
#bcpoli
It was a shock to see MLA Elenore Sturko appear in the horrific video by American YouTubers about Vancouver’s toxic drug crisis ("I investigated a country that decriminalized all drugs"). It’s a YouTube channel that’s full of dishonest, sensationalized “news” reports.
The video…
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Thank you
@tedx
for sharing my talk: "My son Danny: The truth about substance use, stigma and overdose" held at
@MacEwanU
.
It is an honor to be featured here and I hope it will help reach new audiences who need to know about the other epidemic.
#overdose
#drugpoisoning
.
WATCH: A heart-wrenching talk about substance use, stigma, and overdose by Prof. Petra Schulz (
@momsstoptheharm
) at
#TEDxMacEwanU
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My son Danny would still be alive if the potency of a shot of heroin [fentanyl] could be measured like a shot of tequila.
Legal
#regulation
reduces harm.
Prohibition is a death sentence.
I’m so [fucking] sick of the double standard.
Copy & quote RT if this applies to you!
My friends would still be alive if the potency of a shot of heroin could be measured like a shot of tequila.
Legalization reduces harm.
Prohibition is a death sentence.
I’m so fucking sick of the double standard.
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“To abandon that, to go backwards to a system that was never effective, has led us to the crisis where we are today ... That's a knee-jerk reaction. It's an emotional reaction and it isn't driven by science.” Lisa Lapoint
#bcpoli
#decriminalization
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“We are trying a different approach” says Smith
That approach resulted in the worst death toll ever.
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Every year 17,600 (+thousands un-counted before 2016) 🇨🇦 families “celebrate” a birthday without their loved one, because they died from
#drugpoisining
.
The
#WarOnDrugs
, like all wars, is taking our young.
Time for change.
Miss you sweet. Too many birthdays without you. 💜
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We are proud to announce the launch of our new logo. Our network has grown to over 2,000 families across Canada and we have evolved from three grieving moms to an organization of strong advocates that we are today.
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Dear haters:
I don’t hate you back.
I feel sorry that you have to live with so much hate.
Your hate strengthens our resolve to stand up for the people we love and whose lives are threatened by your hate of
#harmreduction
.
We fight for ethical drug policy!
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This is an emergency, and the government needs to treat it like an emergency, not create some hypothetical system that might do something tomorrow, because people are dying today."
@MsthPetra
#ableg
#abhealth
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@LeoBeletsky
When I spoke at a harm reduction even in PEI a mother told me how embarrassed she was that her son was on
#methadone
. I told her that I wish mine was. It is medication. It keeps people alive. Abstinence as a gold standard kills too many, including our son Danny.
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Mother's Day wishes to all moms who worry and those who mourn.
All we want for mothers day is
#safesupply
for all!
Listen to mom!
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We have seen more propaganda, including so called “documentaries”, claiming people are houseless because of substance use. WRONG.
People are houseless because of poverty, trauma, colonization.
People use to numb their pain.
#housingfirst
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Thank you
@GordJohns
for organizing this round table on the toxic drug crisis and the invitation to all MPs!
I hope many will join this dialogue. Maybe we will finally see
@PierrePoilievre
!
Our team will be there
@leslie_mcbain
@angelaVos7
@RuthFox39986528
@ChrisNayler
#cndpoli
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“A regulated supply is not charity for criminals. It’s common sense for communities. We’ve done it for decades with alcohol. Best of all, it’s voluntary, consent-based, & avoids traumatizing people.”
@elsthomson
Dr. Salvalaggio
@MsthPetra
@edmontonjournal
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PSA to certain politicians, some media types and all NIMBYs:
The answer to public drug use is not 👮♀️, but 🏡 and overdose prevention sites 💉
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We found these comments by Albertans in your wastebasket Associate Minister
@jasonluan88
.
#abloli
#ableg
#abhealth
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“If anybody thinks substance use will go away if you recriminalize it, that is not the case. If you don’t like public substance use, you have to give people housing, you have to give them safe places to use.”
@MsthPetra
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What happened to the “balanced reporting”
@CBCCalgary
? You only focus on the government taking points and miss that fact that death rates have doubled under the UCP system if care. We had the worst year on record in 2021. Five people a day dying is no reason to celebrate.
Alberta's drop in opioid-related deaths shows recovery-oriented policy working, expert says
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A conference funded with taxpayer money practices censorship and is excluding one of the most respected voices bridging harm reduction and recovery! This is outrageous!
#RecoveryPosse
#recovery
#recoverycapital
I am so hurt. Disheartened. 🧵
Yesterday I received an email informing me that I’m no longer welcome at the National Recovery Capital Conference, organized by
@Last_Door
, taking place this week in Calgary. My registration has been cancelled and I will not be permitted to attend.…
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"Our son Ryan, 26, and the vast majority of the 42,000 who have lost lives to the toxic supply of drugs, would be alive today if their substance was legalized, regulated and controlled, like we do for alcohol users." Hadican family
@msth_bc
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Greetings from Pearson Int.
I am on my way to Germany for 10 mo. (sabbatical and helping out my mom).
Fear/hope not.
I will be just as active/available on line as I am in YEG, albeit on GMT+1.
Our
#MSTH
team will be there to advocate and support as usual.
#SafeSupply
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