Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition has a mission to advance and realize drug policies grounded in compassion and guided by science, and shift the public narrative on substance use and people who use drugs. Their vision is for a safe, healthy, and just Canada in which drug policies and legislation, as well as related institutional practices, are based on evidence, human rights, social inclusion,..
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
2w ago
Job Title: Communications Director, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
Reporting To: Executive Director
Application Deadline: May 5, 2024, 11:59PM Pacific
Desired Start Date: Late June, 2024
Location: This position is open to applications from across Canada, and CDPC staff work largely remotely. CDPC offices are located on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. This position requires that the successful candidate be loca ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
1M ago
Ontario, Canada | March 18, 2024
Two weeks have passed since 51 groups from across Ontario sent an open letter calling on the provincial government to immediately fund and support supervised consumption sites. But despite the coalition’s request for an emergency meeting by March 13, Minister of Health Sylvia Jones and Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Michael Tibollo have not responded.
The groups are speaking out to secure emergency funding and prevent impending closures of sites in Sudbury and Timmins. More than 500 people have died from drug poisoning in Ontario ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
1M ago
Police communications about drug seizures vary widely in their accuracy. These statements rarely share specific evidence or data sources and sometimes contain errors or overstatements, as in the recent case in Belleville, Ontario and emerging information on Prince George. Police announcing large seizures of prescribed alternatives to the unregulated drug supply as Prince George RCMP did this month may drive fear and influence policy, even if based primarily on assumption. Without forensic testing, police may base their conclusions on visual assessments of shape, size, colour and packaging. Man ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
1M ago
Ontario, Canada | March 5, 2024 — Fifty-one community groups from across Ontario are calling on the provincial government to immediately fund and support supervised consumption services amidst the worsening toxic drug crisis. In an open letter released this morning, the coalition called for eight urgent actions, including direct emergency funding, with a deadline of March 29. Citing recent and imminent closures of sites in Windsor, Sudbury, and Timmins, the group demanded swift intervention to prevent further deaths.
In Ontario, seven to 10 people are killed every day by t ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
1M ago
March 4 2024
The Honourable Sylvia Jones
Ministry of Health
sylvia.jones@ontario.ca | sylvia.jones@pc.ola.org
777 Bay Street, 5th Floor
Toronto, ON M7A 2J3
The Honourable Michael Tibollo
Ministry of Health
michael.tibollo@ontario.ca | michael.tibollo@pc.ola.org
7 Queen’s Park Crescent
Toronto, ON M7A 1Y7
Dear Minister Jones and Associate Minister Tibollo,
RE: Supervised Consumption Services site closures due to lack of funding from Ministry of Health
We write to you with grave concern regarding the Ontario gov ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
2M ago
February 08, 2024: Belleville, Ontario is back in the news with another spike in overdoses. In November 2023, Belleville experienced a similar spike. At that time, Belleville police stated the spike was likely due to “opioids laced with GHB”. We were skeptical of this claim, but needed to wait for any lab-based analysis of the drugs involved. The results came back in January and we developed the following statement.
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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
3M ago
A misinformation campaign around public use legislation distracts from real solutions
January 31, 2024 | One year ago today, British Columbia decriminalized personal possession of small amounts of some drugs in limited locations in a three-year pilot project. Since then, an organized political campaign has spent time and money to cloud public perception and discredit evidence-based efforts. Let’s cut through the rhetoric and talk about what is and isn’t working with decriminalization, and what a better way forward ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
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British Columbia, Canada | January 31, 2024
Frustrated by insufficient responses to escalating toxic drug deaths, today a coalition of civil society organizations and people who use drugs unveiled a comprehensive policy platform aimed at ending the unregulated drug crisis and fostering healthy communities.
Released on the one-year anniversary of the launch of British Columbia’s decriminalization pilot, To End a Crisis: Vision for BC Drug Policy outlines a roadmap for transforming the province’s drug policies.
It has been nearly eight years since the province first ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
3M ago
People who use drugs will suffer the consequences of backward-thinking and restrictive policies
January 26, 2024 | Two leading national human rights organizations have addressed the Saskatchewan provincial government to express profound concern over changes that restrict access to vital harm reduction supplies and safety information. The HIV Legal Network and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition sent the letter yesterday, urging the government to reverse the changes and ground policy in evidence, human rights and best practice.
On January 18, Saskatchewan’s provin ..read more
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
4M ago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BC Supreme Court rules in favour of Harm Reduction Nurses Association, pauses coming into force of BC’s public drug consumption law
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands | Vancouver, BC | December 29, 2023
Today, the BC Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction to the Harm Reduction Nurses Association (HRNA), suspending the coming into force of BC’s Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act until March 31, 2024. The court granted the injunction on the grounds that in severely restricting public drug consumption, the Ac ..read more