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Source: Peer support workers on front lines of the OD crisis need support too: Expert|CityNews1130.comOriginally published on August 12th 2018 VANCOUVER – Trey Helten has known almost every one of the 50 or so people he has treated for overdoses on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside since February. As a former heroin ...

Source: City of Vancouver releases 23 recommendations to combat ongoing opioid crisis|Global News.ca A new report shows overdose deaths in Vancouver remain high, with a large number of victims not necessarily who you’d think they are. Ted Chernecki reports. The City of Vancouver is out with 23 recommendations to combat the ...

Source: Global State of Harm Reduction 2018|Harm Reduction International(HRI.global) Global State of Harm Reduction 2018 The 2018 Global State of Harm Reduction is the sixth edition of this report, and the most comprehensive ever thanks to a coordinated effort of over 100 harm reduction practitioners, academics, advocates and activists from around the world. ...

Source: Don’t keep naloxone kit in your car this winter, health advocate warns|CBC.ca Drug becomes less effective when it’s exposed to temperatures below 5 C As temperatures begin to drop, health officials are war ning British Columbians not to keep naloxone kits in their cars. The medication, which can reverse a ...

Source: The opioid epidemic’s first corporate casualty may be a drugmaker that helped fuel the crisis|the Star.com Sitting in a Boston courtroom in a dark, pinstriped suit, the former top sales executive at Insys Therapeutics Inc., Alec Burlakoff, listened as federal prosecutors read out crimes he and the company had allegedly ...

Source: The Other Side of the Opioid Epidemic: Chronic Pain Patients|the Fix.com “It is borderline genocide,” said DeLuca, 37. “You are allowing [chronic pain patients] to go home and essentially suffer until they kill themselves.” Last year, Lauren DeLuca went to the emergency room in the middle of the night, ...