Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #drugcrisis, aggregated by home.social.
Good to see that Drug User Liberation Fund founders will not be facing jail time. And good to see that the government has been directed to change Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
But given how right wing the Carney Liberals are, I'm sure they'll appeal.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/09/29/DULF-Wins-Constitutional-Challenge-Judge-Applauds-Work/
#bcpoli #britishcolumbia #dulf #canada #markcarney #cdnpoli #canpoli #compassion #DrugCrisis #fentanyl #safesupply
https://www.europesays.com/africa/437664/ Catholic Bishops back parliamentary probe into Ghana’s drug trafficking crisis #CatholicBishops #CocaineSeizure #DrugAbuse #DrugCrisis #DrugMenace #DunkirkCocaineSeizure #Ghana #GhanaDrugTrafficking #GhanaInstitutions #GhanaPorts #NACOC #NarcoticsTrafficking #ParliamentOfGhana #ParliamentaryProbe #TemaPort
The homelessness scourge in cities like London, Ont., exposes the evils of wealth inequality
#LondonOntario #Ontario #Canada #Homelessness #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #WealthInequality #Poverty #MentalHealth #WealthTax #DrugCrisis #SocialJustice
https://the-14.com/the-homelessness-scourge-in-cities-like-london-ont-exposes-the-evils-of-wealth-inequality/
Demand for naloxone training increasing as Winnipeg’s drug crisis worsens, consultant says
As Winnipeg faces a worsening drug crisis, more people are looking to be prepared in the event of…
#Canada #Winnipeg #DowntownWinnipeg #drugcrisis #MandyMondaca #naloxone #responsetraining #trainingsession #UrbanWagons #VictorMandaca #VictorMondaca
https://www.europesays.com/canada/134414/
https://www.europesays.com/people/154049/ Fatal overdose outside Gavin Newsom’s office puts drug crisis on grim display #california #CaliforniaHighwayPatrol #CaliforniaStateCapitol #CapitolBuilding #CPR #DavidBuchan #DrugCrisis #GavinNewsom #GovernorNewsom #HighwayPatrol #JeffRainforth #LosAngeles #SacramentoFireDepartment #SanFrancisco
Geopolitics of Faith: Pope Leo XIV’s Two Simultaneous Battles Against Mafia and Division https://www.byteseu.com/2023210/ #ChristianMartyrs #CopticCatholicDialogue #CopticChurch #DrugCrisis #DrugTrafficking #EcumenismOfBlood #Featured #Geopolitics #InternationalSecurity #OrganizedCrime #OSCE #PopeLeoXiv #TawadrosII #VaticanDiplomacy
Geopolitics of Faith: Pope Leo XIV’s Two Simultaneous Battles Against Mafia and Division
Pope Leo XIV this week solidified the core principles of his global diplomacy by addressing, almost simultaneously, two…
#Politics #Christianmartyrs #CopticCatholicdialogue #CopticChurch #drugcrisis #drugtrafficking #ecumenismofblood #Featured #geopolitics #internationalsecurity #organizedcrime #OSCE #PopeLeoXIV #TawadrosII #Vaticandiplomacy
https://www.europesays.com/2991874/
https://www.europesays.com/2991874/ Geopolitics of Faith: Pope Leo XIV’s Two Simultaneous Battles Against Mafia and Division #ChristianMartyrs #CopticCatholicDialogue #CopticChurch #DrugCrisis #DrugTrafficking #EcumenismOfBlood #Featured #geopolitics #InternationalSecurity #OrganizedCrime #OSCE #Politics #PopeLeoXIV #TawadrosII #VaticanDiplomacy
This common antidepressant helps people cut back on methamphetamine – new study
#Health #PublicHealth #Addiction #Meth #DrugCrisis #Methamphetamine #MentalHealth #Recovery #Treatment #Medicine #HarmReduction #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Wellness #Science
https://the-14.com/this-common-antidepressant-helps-people-cut-back-on-methamphetamine-new-study/
From #geopoliticaluncertainties to #AI-drivenmisinformation, from climate pressures to a worsening housing and #drugcrisis, our country is navigating MANY challenges. Meeting them requires more than technical fixes; it demands investment in the social fabric. 🇨🇦 ❤️
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The traffickers are winning the war on drugs
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/10/16/the-traffickers-are-winning-the-war-on-drugs
#HackerNews #traffickers #warondrugs #drugpolicy #drugcrisis #addiction
CPH Daily Bulletin 9/11/2025 Cont
Fed up with drug users, street #vigilantes are wielding #Narcan ‘like a weapon’
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/11/san-francisco-drug-users-narcan-attacks/
Aurora pursues crack down on gas-station psychoactive drugs and paraphernalia
‘Really, it’s gray market area items, and it’s basically the businesses or these entities taking advantage of the lack of enforcement’
Aurora pursues crack down on gas-station psychoactive drugs and paraphernalia
‘Really, it’s gray market area items, and it’s basically the businesses or these entities taking advantage of the lack of enforcement’
Stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine have seen a surge in related deaths in California. The state is experimenting with a program to incentivize sobriety, which has resulted in overdose deaths dropping by 10% over the past year. #DrugCrisis
#Drugcrisis deepens our #economic woes
"urine testing suggests tt actual number of #amphetamine users cld exceed 5 million, or 7.6% of population. With the cost of an amphetamine tablet ~30 baht, drugs hv become increasingly accessible to low-income earners, driving the # of users even higher. >95% of #drugaddicts in #Thailand r btw 15-59 yrs old.. Alarmingly, #government lacks baseline data on number of #drug #addicts, as no statistics r available fr any official agency"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2917571/drug-crisis-deepens-our-economic-woes
A #BCConservative candidate has gone viral with this video of her getting a 'snorting kit' from a vending machine outside the Emergency Room of the Nanaimo Hospital.
My question to her is:
Would she rather people get a snorting kit and tips from a biker-gang drug pusher?
People are dying and getting diseases from dirty pipes and stuff. This is an extremely cheap way of making sure people don't die... which is what Hospitals do.
When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.
Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”
The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.
Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #BreakTheStigma #AddictionEducation #Fearmongering #StopStigmatizingAddiction #Health #Medical #HealthPolicies #MediaManipulation #BreakStatusQuo #FundTreatmentServices #FundHealthCare #FundMedicalServices #CommunityHealth
Very glad to see this Class Action approved and moving ahead. Not only is it right and fair for the people who got the financial rug pulled out from under them (causing some to die by suicide) but it makes it clear just how many people were helped by UBI! It was working!!! People were getting out of the hole our current systems create!
#UBI #CanPoli #GLBI #CdnPoli #ONPoli #Ford #Poverty #DrugCrisis #HousingCrisis
cc: @scottsantens
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-basic-income-pilot-class-action-1.7149814
NEW: A drug crackdown in the Tenderloin that was supposed to encourage people into treatment focused heavily on Latinx people, yet jails offered English programs only. Service providers for Latinx inmates demanded access to the jails at last week's Sheriff’s Oversight Board meeting. This week, a Spanish recovery program was launched. But some longtime jail workers give it less than 2 weeks.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/service-providers-demand-access-to-latinx-jail-inmates/
#SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoNews #Jails #DrugCrisis #Rehabilitation