#drugcrisis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #drugcrisis, aggregated by home.social.
-
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/ -
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
-
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’
-
Trump announces tariffs on Canada and Mexico to proceed on March 4, with additional 10% tariff on China, citing concerns over drug influx and border security
#YonhapInfomax #TariffImplementation #BorderSecurity #DrugCrisis #USTradePolicy #ChinaTariffs #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=52456 -
#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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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 #HousingCrisiscc: @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
-
This is not ‘overdose’ it is poisoning, call it what it is.
The solution to a poisoning crisis is safe supply.
#overdose #poisoning #DrugCrisis #ToxicDrugCrisis #ABPoli #CdnPoli
-
NEW: Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled in the U.S. in recent years. 2/3rds of them had someone nearby who didn’t respond.
In this 6th and final episode of "San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis," we hear how people are learning how to help when someone is overdosing.
"I think it’s really important, especially in our school and at my age, that we should be teaching our students how this is performed." -Burton HS student Jennifer Mendoza, who participates in a program that teaches students how to recognize drug abuse and reverse overdoses.
The DOPE project & the SF Department of Public Health launched a peer-responder program for people living in permanent supportive housing.
"It feels like I’m useful, like I have a sense of purpose. I’m actually helping within the community." -Susan Lefever, SRO resident.https://www.sfpublicpress.org/sf-students-sro-residents-train-to-reverse-drug-overdoses/
#SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoNews #California #Fentanyl #DrugCrisis #Naloxone #HarmReduction
-
‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids https://news.yahoo.com/monster-super-meth-other-drugs-124044157.html
The non-opioid drugs include those relatively new to the street, such as the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which can char human flesh, anti-anxiety medications including Valium and Klonopin and older recreational stimulants such as cocaine and meth. Dealers sell these drugs, plus counterfeit Percocet and Xanax pills, often mixed with fentanyl.#DrugAbuse #DrugCrisis -
Global News BC: Dignified focus needed for B.C. toxic drug crisis, doctor says https://globalnews.ca/news/10036898/bc-overdose-dignified-focus/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DrugCrisis #toxicdrugs #Addiction #Politics #Overdose #Health
-
Global News BC: B.C. coroner says fentanyl the main culprit as 184 people died of toxic drugs in June https://globalnews.ca/news/9842676/bc-coroner-june-drug-deaths-fentanyl/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #bctoxicdrugcrisis #BCoverdosecrisis #toxicdrugcrisis #DrugdeathsJune #OverdoseCrisis #DrugCrisis #drugdeaths #Fentanyl #Justice #Health #Social
-
Went to mcdonalds for a quick snack, didn't each much. I've never seen the dining area this way. People passing out on #heroin . It's getting sad and depressing around me. Its gloomy and people seem #blackpilled. Is anyone not seeing this? No one mentions it or they shut you down for being negative.
-
Global News BC: Province-wide approach to regulating public drug use coming, B.C. premier says https://globalnews.ca/news/9706217/bc-provincewide-open-use-drug-ban/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DrugDecriminalization #parksandplaygrounds #decriminalization #OverdoseCrisis #PublicDrugUse #OpenDrugUse #DrugCrisis #safesupply #toxicdrugs #Overdose #Health #Crime #Drugs
-
Global News BC: Province-wide approach to regulating public drug use coming, B.C. premier says https://globalnews.ca/news/9706217/bc-provincewide-open-use-drug-ban/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DrugDecriminalization #parksandplaygrounds #decriminalization #OverdoseCrisis #PublicDrugUse #OpenDrugUse #DrugCrisis #safesupply #toxicdrugs #Overdose #Health #Crime #Drugs
-
Global News BC: Province-wide approach to regulating public drug use coming, B.C. premier says https://globalnews.ca/news/9706217/bc-provincewide-open-use-drug-ban/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DrugDecriminalization #parksandplaygrounds #decriminalization #OverdoseCrisis #PublicDrugUse #OpenDrugUse #DrugCrisis #safesupply #toxicdrugs #Overdose #Health #Crime #Drugs
-
Global News BC: Province-wide approach to regulating public drug use coming, B.C. premier says https://globalnews.ca/news/9706217/bc-provincewide-open-use-drug-ban/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DrugDecriminalization #parksandplaygrounds #decriminalization #OverdoseCrisis #PublicDrugUse #OpenDrugUse #DrugCrisis #safesupply #toxicdrugs #Overdose #Health #Crime #Drugs
-
A woman with A POSSIBLY DISLOCATED HIP has been waiting for 3.4 hours now for the ambulance.. (Ottawa area)
The EMS have been super busy today.. My scanner stream can't keep up.. Lots of ODs, people found unconscious.. ALS has been unavailable a lot recently.
We have to do better :(
https://youtube.com/live/WWYperUQHTk
Just want to clarify that this is NOT the fault of the overworked paramedics, doctors, nurses, and other health care workers..
This is the fault of the government and, by proxy, the people who voted for them.
#FirstResponders #EMS #Ottawa #OnPoli #CanPoli #HealthCare #HealthCareCrisis #Canada #LiveStream #live #youtuber #DrugCrisis #OpiodCrisis