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nurse practitioner, harm reduction, safer supply, health is political - “all diseases have two causes - one pathological, the other political “ rudolf virchow
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Ireland and Scotland both set to open drug consumption rooms in 2025. A long time in the making and a welcome intervention 🏴 🇮🇪
IRELAND’S FIRST EVER medically supervised drug injection facility (MSIF) is set to open in Dublin in December, according to the charity overseeing the service.#harmreduction saves lives. www.thejournal.ie/supervised-d...
'This will save lives' - Ireland's first supervised drug injection centre to open this December
Merchants Quay Ireland said the facility will host medical staff who can “intervene when overdoses happen”.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Ireland and Scotland both set to open drug consumption rooms in 2025. A long time in the making and a welcome intervention 🏴 🇮🇪
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The Harm Reduction Nurses Association is in profound opposition to the recent passage of Ontario's Bill 223, which mandates the closure of existing supervised consumption services (SCS) & prevents the establishment of new sites.
#onpoli #harmreduction
#onpoli #harmreduction
December 4, 2024 at 12:10 AM
The Harm Reduction Nurses Association is in profound opposition to the recent passage of Ontario's Bill 223, which mandates the closure of existing supervised consumption services (SCS) & prevents the establishment of new sites.
#onpoli #harmreduction
#onpoli #harmreduction
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Some of the best-informed understanding of public health interventions (PPE etc) in COVID has come from sources in Africa, via practitioners who are simply better at their jobs than ours - more practical, and more focused on outcomes.
We ignore them at our peril.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...
We ignore them at our peril.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...
Opinion | The U.S. Response to Bird Flu is Not Reassuring the World
The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Some of the best-informed understanding of public health interventions (PPE etc) in COVID has come from sources in Africa, via practitioners who are simply better at their jobs than ours - more practical, and more focused on outcomes.
We ignore them at our peril.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...
We ignore them at our peril.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...