Download PDF On June 1, 2024, Health Canada published a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for the proposed Controlled Substances Regulations (CSR) in the Canada Gazette, Part I. The regulatory proposal was…
Throughout the country, dozens of events are being held on August 31 to honour those who have been lost to drug overdose and to raise awareness of…
So many in our community have been lost to toxic drugs that it’s hard to keep track. That’s a horrible feeling. We want to honour and respect…
The first steps for systemic change are usually the hardest. But thanks to an international community of experts, including and especially those with lived expertise on the…
Originally posted on straight.com on June 9th, 2016 at 1:43 PM Stacey Forrester is a Vancouver-based harm-reduction advocate and nurse involved in projects on health and safety at live-music events and…
The idea that marijuana is legal in this country is one of the persistent myths about this substance. In fact, marijuana is still illegal and is listed…
It seems that in Canada, public meetings about harm reduction bring out the best and worst in people. This was certainly the case on Wednesday at a…
Is it possible for a Canadian interested in issues like scaling-up harm reduction and drug law reform to envy the U.S.? That’s the worrisome question that crossed…
Remember that media-fueled tempest in a teapot in June of this year? That brief but startling drug scare raised the profile of “legal highs” like MDPV, though…
The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition is based out of Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Health Sciences.