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RECLAIM @reclaimcollective.bsky.social · Nov 13
We are Reclaim Collective, an innovative and forward thinking group of professionals with lived experience with substance use, mental health, compounded grief/trauma and work in all levels of non-profits. Check out our website 🤗
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Check out this new piece on safer supply from Fifth Estate featuring our pal Jordan Westfall 💯
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Open letter to Postmedia and @calgaryherald.com to call for the OpEd by @guyfelicella.bsky.social to be republished immediately. Silencing people with lived experience is not in keeping with journalistic standards silences us all.
#media #journalism #freespeech
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Screenshot of letter P1 We, the undersigned, are writing to you in regard to an opinion article by Mr. Guy Felicella [ Reprinted here by the Breakdown ] that was published in the Calgary Herald on October 1, 2025, but was subsequently removed without this being communicated to the writer. We ask that this article is re-published immediately and that an apology is issued. Mr. Felicella wrote his article in response to a previous opinion piece by Mr. Marshall Smith , the former chief of staff of the Premier of Alberta, published in the Calgary Herald on September 23, 2025, entitled “Opinion: Banning public drug use is bold, courageous and obvious”. This letter does not mean to address the substance of Mr. Smith’s or Mr. Felicella’s articles, but rather the issue of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. As a person with considerable lived experience in substance use and as an advocate who bridges harm reduction and recovery, Mr. Felicella expressed his concern over Mr. Smith’s approach. In his article Mr. Felicella did not defame, slander or misrepresent facts. He offered a different perspective that is informed by lived experience of substance use, near death from toxic drugs and his recovery journey. Opinion sections in Canadian newspapers are supposed to offer differing opinions, not only those that are in line with the editorial board or of people with power and influence. This is clearly stated in the Ethics Guidelines of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), which we assume you and your publication espouses to. The removal of Mr. Felicella’s article and the suppression of differing opinions is in contravention of this guideline. It is akin to US-style politics that punishes those in opposition to the current administration. While Mr. Felicella is not Jimmy Kimble, we feel that this is an attempt at silencing him. We therefore demand that the opinion article by Mr. Felicella is republished immediately, in keeping with Canadian journalistic standards and CAJ guidelines. Many of the undersigned have offered countless hours to Postmedia journalists in interviews, with expert opinions or background briefs. While some of us will continue to do so for the time being, as we value the efforts of those frontline journalists, others may no longer make themselves available. We all pledge to no longer share Postmedia new stories on our social and alternative media platforms, which, combined, have considerable reach. We hope that you will stand by and show that you uphold the principle freedom of expression by your actions, and that you can stand firm against undue influence and legal challenges designed to silence critics. Regards, Link to letter and signatures https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rzKSdaVEAki8NQifrbis6nkpxMQm7wjp/view?usp=drive_link
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Hey hey, we are excited for another #ResearchSpotlight with Julia Reid! Click the link below and we’ll see you Thursday, November 13 at 12 pm EST 👀
Partnered with @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social

Register:
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November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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We are super excited to present at the @drpetercentre Community of Practice on October 29 👻

We will chat about how and why we formed, what we do and our lived experiences in #HarmReduction
Please join us 🎃

To register:

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October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Thursday October 23 at 12 EST / 10 MST

Join Reclaim and @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social for this timely discussion on the impacts of de-prescribing, program closures and the current realities facing safe supply clients in #Ontario

Register here:

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October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Check out this research on Safer Opioid Supply #SOS program closures that our cofounder Andrzej is a co-author on
👇👇👇
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October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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EDMONTON #yeg

Check out your municipal candidates’ take on drug policy and harm reduction👇👇👇
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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#RECLAIMcollective showed our support to numerous #IOAD2025 events in Alberta and Ontario 💜🕯️
September 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🔥 Our Support Don’t Punish 2025 webinar kept building energy as it went. Voices from around the world came together to share truth, strategy, and solidarity.

This global conversation was a collective resistance that left us feeling connection and love for PWUD worldwide.

#DrugSky #HarmReduction
September 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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COMRADE APPRECIATION POST!! We’re not just “peer researchers.” We out ourselves as PWLLE because governments only listen when there’s data. That’s how we’ve won naloxone, SCS’s, and harm reduction supplies by turning our lived experience into evidence.
#RECLAIMcollective #UnderDogs #LivedExperience
August 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Peep our guest article for #SupportDontPunish with @drugdatadecoded.ca

If you missed our first ever webinar (in preparation for SDP), the recording will be up soon. Huge thanks to our speakers, it was 🔥

drugdatadecoded.ca/reclaim-coll...
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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From Prairie Harm Reduction and @reclaimcollective.bsky.social - June 26 is Support Don’t Punish Day. Let’s stand up & speak up now and not let Sask follow Alberta’s harmful policies. #skpoli #yxe
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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In support of this global fight against the war on drugs, RECLAIM Collective will host an international online event in preparation for Support. Dont Punish on June 24th 💥

To register:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Join us at the weekly drop in meeting on Thursday, when we welcome Clare Snelgrove to chat about drug checking in Toronto 🫶🙌
Link to register:

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June 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Out now in Harm Reduction Journal, our team's reflections on key considerations for rural community-based research with families of people who use drugs. Paper and project led by
@hollymathias.bsky.social in partnership and funded by CIHR via CRISM. 🧪

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Rural community-based participatory research with families of people who use drugs: key considerations from a multi-provincial research partnership - Harm Reduction Journal
North America continues to contend with an unregulated drug crisis that is impacting communities of all sizes. Community-based participatory research that meaningfully engages people who use drugs, fa...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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For over 4 years, the National Safe Supply Community of Practice (NSS CoP) - now known as @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social - has been a cornerstone fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among healthcare providers, frontline workers and people with lived and living expertise.
May 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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May 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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re-up: let's raise another $10K for Trey's fam. we have to take care of each other.

#Vancouver

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Support for Trey Helten’s partner and kids. Ashtrey forever.
The Downtown Eastside is reeling.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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We’ve had a hard go across Canada the past few years —SCS’s being shut down, loss of safe supply, loss of decrim, implementation of forced treatment, abstinence only Alberta model, encampment sweeps and defunding of harm reduction orgs… the list goes on.
May 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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We’re excited too!
hollymathias.bsky.social Holly Mathias @hollymathias.bsky.social · Mar 21
Looking forward to speaking at this event with @reclaimcollective.bsky.social!

Join us for a free screening of Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy on Monday March 24th at 6:30 pm in Wetaskiwin.

More info in the link: bit.ly/kmoedoc
March 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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SCOOP: Aaron Brown wins injunction, potentially stalling Alberta government's closure of Red Deer overdose prevention site.

AB government is legally bound to restore full operating hours at the site within 3 days.

Aaron Brown's affidavit is reprinted in full ⬇️
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Injunction obtained against Red Deer overdose prevention site rollback
Aaron Brown, the plaintiff seeking to stop the Alberta government's closure of Red Deer's only overdose prevention site, won an injunction to halt the government's rollback of the site's operating hou...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Happy Holidays!
Reclaim will be taking a break until January 6. Have a restful holiday season and we will catch you in 2025!
December 23, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Hozho Total Wellness
I remove and block any energies around me that pretend to like me, drain me, use me, envy me, or secretly compete with me. We are here to inspire and help each other succeed. I stay in my own lane, focused on my own mission, only vibe with energies that want to grow and uplift.
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December 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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"we tested the drugs all over the place and guys, I think we're fucked"
Multiple samples in different colors and textures, containing several Fentanyl Analogs (including Carfentanil), Benzodiazepines, Veterinary Tranquilizers (Tranq) and Nitazenes (a group of potent opioids), were tested throughout the Fraser Health region.
December 13, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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This was absolutely awful, our Comms girl remembers 😢 Organizing a search party while in a different province was tricky but we found you my dude. All busted up in hospital.
Thank you for sharing, we know this was life changing for you 💚👊
jordanwestfall.bsky.social Jordan @jordanwestfall.bsky.social · Dec 6
Powerful post about withdrawal.

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2 years ago I had a seizure during benzo withdrawal so badly I broke both my shoulders. I collapsed on a Zoom call. I had a torn rotator cuff, several fractures, and 2 dislocations. Took 2 surgeries 2 repair damage. All from withdrawal.
December 6, 2024 at 11:16 PM