#safeinjection — Public Fediverse posts

It's been a busy few days for the #FirstResponders in #Ottawa / #Ontario

They're significantly #overworked #understaffed and we really need to step up for them and demand that the government increase the #medschool spots, Fund #SafeInjection sites

https://youtube.com/live/WWYperUQHTk

Yesterday people were waiting as much as 4+ hours for code 3 pickups due to ambulance delays from the #OpiodEpidemic hitting Ontario these last few days..
There have been SO MANY ODs ITS INSANE.. Wait times are up all over the province due to lack of ambulances... #fentanyl

See discussion here:

https://reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/11kallb/a_woman_with_a_possibly_dislocated_hip_has_been/

#PublicSaftey #EMS #Canada #canpoli #onpoli #epidemic #ottawa #healthCare #healthcarenews

"Stuck In Time: Harm Reduction in the 21st Century"

My graduate thesis in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University. Please read, enjoy, and share!

http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/67823

#mastodon #science #writing #sciencewriting #nonfiction #thesis #johnshopkins #harmreduction #warondrugs #addiction #drugs #opioids #psychedelic #entheogens #police #policeviolence #policecommissions #taser #methadone #MAT #bones #grants #decriminalization #safeinjection #crime #massincarceration #history