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Looking ahead to 2021 and the fight for drug policy reform

January 11, 2021 (January 12, 2021)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

In 2021, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition will train its focus on decriminalization and the legal regulation of drugs to help end the harms of the toxic drug market.

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Canada’s busiest supervised consumption site shuts its doors on International Overdose Awareness Day

August 28, 2020 (October 1, 2020)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

People will likely die without the supervised consumption services ARCHES provides and the community of care built around it.

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Decriminalizing drugs and the path towards defunding police

June 10, 2020 (January 9, 2021)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

We must all help to ensure this pivotal moment in history led by the courage of the Black community bends towards justice.

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URGENT APPEAL: Supporting people who use drugs and frontline workers during COVID-19

March 19, 2020 (April 9, 2020)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

Caught in the crosshairs of this unprecedented disaster are people who use drugs and the frontline harm reduction and healthcare workers who support them

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Three legal marijuana products are neatly arranged on table

Pain relief that’s a pain in the neck: Issues accessing medicinal cannabis in Australia and Canada

February 26, 2020 (February 27, 2020)
By Daniel Gates

If both countries don’t take greater steps to improving access, our claims of superiority will be little more than blowing smoke.

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Graffiti spelling out overdose prevention on a wall

From Down Under to the Downtown Eastside: An Aussie’s experience at OPS and the community of care saving lives

February 5, 2020 (June 15, 2020)
By Daniel Gates

This is what Australia is missing. Besides people being misinformed about safe injection sites, we lack a community-led approach to harm reduction

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For drug policy, the university of life imparts the most important lessons of all

December 19, 2019 (March 13, 2020)
By Peter Kim

My education on drug policy issues came directly from the community here in Vancouver; namely, from working on the corner of Main and Hastings for ten years, talking to people who used drugs and community members about the absurdity of our approach to people who use criminalized substances

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What a Liberal minority government means for drug policy in Canada

November 5, 2019 (April 16, 2020)
By Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

The Liberals have another chance to do what is right: embrace evidence-based policies that will help end the deaths and human suffering crippling communities across Canada.

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A record number of people have died from overdose in Ontario, but do politicians care enough to act?

September 30, 2019 (November 4, 2019)
By Peter Kim

(Interactive Graph) The answer to the headline’s question seems to be a resounding “no.” How else could one explain the catastrophic loss of life unfolding in Canada’s…

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The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition is a partner project with the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), a research centre based at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

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