Doctors for Safer Drug Policy
@dsdp.ca
A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
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While it’s certainly a niche target audience, our podcast #RecoveryReform is now in the top 5 most popular harm reduction podcasts! That’s pretty cool. Looking forward to building more in 2026!
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Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy | Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton
Recovery Reform endeavors to break the stigma around substance use and explore recovery beyond traditional narratives. Hosted by McCauley Sexton, founder and Executive Director of Recovery Reform and ...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
While it’s certainly a niche target audience, our podcast #RecoveryReform is now in the top 5 most popular harm reduction podcasts! That’s pretty cool. Looking forward to building more in 2026!
recoveryreformpodcast.podbean.com
recoveryreformpodcast.podbean.com
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Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds
Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds
Study published in JAMA Network Open tracked rates of assault, auto theft, break-and-enter, robbery and theft over $5,000 from 2014 to 2025.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds
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42 people died from unregulated drugs while in a medical facility between January 1 2023 and August 31 2025 in British Columbia
Here is the list.
Remember when people were complaining about drug users in hospitals ?
Here is the list.
Remember when people were complaining about drug users in hospitals ?
January 2, 2026 at 10:33 PM
42 people died from unregulated drugs while in a medical facility between January 1 2023 and August 31 2025 in British Columbia
Here is the list.
Remember when people were complaining about drug users in hospitals ?
Here is the list.
Remember when people were complaining about drug users in hospitals ?
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“Addiction treatment: what it is, where it currently fails, and how it could meet the needs of people and communities.”
“Addiction treatment: what it is, where it currently fails, and how it could meet the needs of people and communities.”
Addiction Treatment in Context: Principles for a System of Just, Accessible, and Voluntary Care - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
Position Statement Veuillez noter : une traduction française de cette déclaration sera bientôt disponible. December 30, 2025 This statement outlines the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition’s organization...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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“Addiction treatment: what it is, where it currently fails, and how it could meet the needs of people and communities.”
“Addiction treatment: what it is, where it currently fails, and how it could meet the needs of people and communities.”
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The "nobodies" doing "nothing" are the ELITES and most of the politicians representing you. PEOPLE in their communities are in motion, everywhere. You just have to pay attention and importantly you have to JOIN THEM.
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The "nobodies" doing "nothing" are the ELITES and most of the politicians representing you. PEOPLE in their communities are in motion, everywhere. You just have to pay attention and importantly you have to JOIN THEM.
We think we've been good docs this year. Check out our Christmas Wishlist 👇
December 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
We think we've been good docs this year. Check out our Christmas Wishlist 👇
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"B.C. instead focused on funding policing, and treatment and recovery beds, which Lapointe said was problematic because the province is not tracking how these investments reduce overdoses, deaths or harms caused by unregulated drugs."
#bcpoli #harmreduction
"B.C. instead focused on funding policing, and treatment and recovery beds, which Lapointe said was problematic because the province is not tracking how these investments reduce overdoses, deaths or harms caused by unregulated drugs."
#bcpoli #harmreduction
Ex-BC Coroner Testifies about Failures to Prevent Toxic Drug Deaths | The Tyee
Lawyers for DULF are arguing the compassion club had to take matters into its own hands.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"B.C. instead focused on funding policing, and treatment and recovery beds, which Lapointe said was problematic because the province is not tracking how these investments reduce overdoses, deaths or harms caused by unregulated drugs."
#bcpoli #harmreduction
"B.C. instead focused on funding policing, and treatment and recovery beds, which Lapointe said was problematic because the province is not tracking how these investments reduce overdoses, deaths or harms caused by unregulated drugs."
#bcpoli #harmreduction
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Police exhortations to be taken off mental health calls also prompt us to interrogate pushes in cities across Canada to police "disorder." The one runs counter to the other.
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Police exhortations to be taken off mental health calls also prompt us to interrogate pushes in cities across Canada to police "disorder." The one runs counter to the other.
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"Doctors like Dr. Caroline Ferris fear that if patients they’ve stabilized are stuck all day waiting for a pharmacist to watch them take their prescriptions — which can be several pills a day — they’ll likely return to using street drugs and could overdose."
"Doctors like Dr. Caroline Ferris fear that if patients they’ve stabilized are stuck all day waiting for a pharmacist to watch them take their prescriptions — which can be several pills a day — they’ll likely return to using street drugs and could overdose."
As witness rule kicks in, addiction doctor worries patients could die
Dr. Caroline Ferris says some people may fall through the cracks when new rules requiring that use of safer supply drugs be supervised take effect Dec. 30.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"Doctors like Dr. Caroline Ferris fear that if patients they’ve stabilized are stuck all day waiting for a pharmacist to watch them take their prescriptions — which can be several pills a day — they’ll likely return to using street drugs and could overdose."
"Doctors like Dr. Caroline Ferris fear that if patients they’ve stabilized are stuck all day waiting for a pharmacist to watch them take their prescriptions — which can be several pills a day — they’ll likely return to using street drugs and could overdose."
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here there is a case report of someone who survived 2 non-fatal ODs
"We know that our patient received XR-Bup and his risk of fentanyl overdose should have been minimal. However, with the increasing potency of the fentanyl, it is likely that XR-Bup alone is not as effective against overdose."
"We know that our patient received XR-Bup and his risk of fentanyl overdose should have been minimal. However, with the increasing potency of the fentanyl, it is likely that XR-Bup alone is not as effective against overdose."
Opioid overdose after extended-release buprenorphine injection: a case report
Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Encompassing All Addictive Disorders (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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December 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
here there is a case report of someone who survived 2 non-fatal ODs
"We know that our patient received XR-Bup and his risk of fentanyl overdose should have been minimal. However, with the increasing potency of the fentanyl, it is likely that XR-Bup alone is not as effective against overdose."
"We know that our patient received XR-Bup and his risk of fentanyl overdose should have been minimal. However, with the increasing potency of the fentanyl, it is likely that XR-Bup alone is not as effective against overdose."
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“I think it’s shaping up to be an unmitigated disaster."
The BC government has fast-tracked a law to skirt a constitutional challenge to involuntary treatment, and given doctors permission to force medications on youth, reports
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The BC government has fast-tracked a law to skirt a constitutional challenge to involuntary treatment, and given doctors permission to force medications on youth, reports
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BC Government Doubles Down on Forced Drug Treatment - Filter
The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“I think it’s shaping up to be an unmitigated disaster."
The BC government has fast-tracked a law to skirt a constitutional challenge to involuntary treatment, and given doctors permission to force medications on youth, reports
@godfrey.bsky.social:
The BC government has fast-tracked a law to skirt a constitutional challenge to involuntary treatment, and given doctors permission to force medications on youth, reports
@godfrey.bsky.social:
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"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca
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BC Government Doubles Down on Forced Drug Treatment - Filter
The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"It’s a classic example of governments using words to not mean what they actually mean" @dsdp.ca
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