Tag Archives: war on drugs

Source: Denver council approves safe injection sites with lessons from Vancouver|CityNews1130.com VANCOUVER – As an overdose crisis began taking shape in Denver, Colorado, one of the places the city’s leaders looked for answers was north of the border. Councillor Albus Brooks says he hopped on a plane to Vancouver last ...

Source: How America Convinced the World to Demonize Drugs|Vice.com Originally published August 13th 2018 Much of the world used to treat drug addiction as a health issue, not a criminal one. And then America got its way. In Baltimore, a young black man is sent to prison for felony cannabis possession. ...

Source: What I saw in a day on the Downtown Eastside shocked me|The Globe & Mail How have we let things go so wrong for Canada’s roughest neighbourhood? It’s just another day on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A young man sits on the wet sidewalk, his legs spread wide, sucking the smoke ...

Source: My Year On Death Row|National Post Originally published August 23, 2018 Inside Canada’s ‘other opioid epidemic’ — patients cut off from medical painkillers By Dawn Rae Downton Illustrations by Mike Faille It started in my feet, which ached constantly whether I wore flats, heels, trainers, or went barefoot. Physiotherapy and orthotics? ...

Source: How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis|The Guardian Originally published on August 29th 2017 The campaign to cut off heroin supplies has encouraged the growth of labs producing the opioid. We need to instead embrace a public health approach A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to ...

Source: The making of an opioid epidemic|The Guardian When high doses of painkillers led to widespread addiction, it was called one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine. But this was no accident. By Chris McGreal Jane Ballantyne was, at one time, a true believer. The British-born doctor, who trained as an ...