@guyfelicella
@jenniferelle_
Your case is not the norm. Statistics are screeming in your face that safe supply is not working evidenced by a rampant increase in addiction and overdose stats. Increased access to narcotics is only widening the problem. To say otherwise states that you aren't paying attention.
on xmas eve we grieve those we have lost and express gratitude to those providing overdose response
in 2024 we again say no more dying: it is not in the public interest to criminalize Jeremy & Eris–or anyone else–for undercutting the toxic supply!
Jan 16—800 Hornby–Noon
@PaulNuki
the headline is wrong because fentanyl overtook heroin in the market 7 years before decrim was implemented, you can't even respond to criticism in good-faith
Why does B.C. follow Dr. Bonnie Henry’s recommendations for one public health emergency, but not the other one?
B.C. Premier David Eby discusses.
This is VANCOLOUR
@CHEK_News
📺
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DULF Solidarity Committee obviously stands with
@andreasereda
, and against those weaponizing & lying about drug laws/use for electoral clout, all while everyone is dying from the real consequences of drug policy
This is unconscionable.
"A 38-year-old woman had overdosed this past Saturday, just one day after he said paramedics and firefighters would no longer respond to calls along certain sections of the block without a police escort" 💔
syringe distribution was unsanctioned
safe injection sites like Insite were illegal
overdose prevention sites from Vancouver to
@TorontoOPS
to Scotland were breaking the law
it is not in public interest to criminalize saving lives!
When we saved lives at the unsanctioned overdose prevention site I was also charged.
Thanks to
@AamerAnwar
the charge was dropped, let's hope for a similar outcome for our activists at
@DULFBC
It should never be a crime to save lives.
#Solidarity
Trafalgar Sq - 3pm Tues 16th
"We are survivors. We use drugs for different reasons, and our reasons may change - we use drugs for pain management, for our incurable grief, for relief, for joy, to get through the day..."
words from five members of the DULF compassion club:
"people die at these sites or shortly after leaving or being evicted from them. This alarming fact is not tracked by formal government bodies and the BC Coroner’s office is not empowered to pursue these deaths."
Today’s announcement on the launch of 180 publicly funded treatment beds is a significant milestone in our commitment to supporting individuals facing addiction challenges across the province. 1/3
YOU ARE NEEDED:
1) Show up Friday, November 3rd at Main & Hastings
2) Email stakeholders to show it is NOT in the public interest to spend public resources charging DULF's founders:
Details here & solidarity events👇🏽🧵
UBC Med student Elaine Hu
@elainehu_
giving us an overview of the public health & science evidence for safe supply. A recent study found that “people with opioid use disorder are 61% less likely to die after receiving safe supply only once per day.
charges against DULF's founders Jeremy & Eris are not in the public interest
if you haven't already, send an email to those with power to show public support. template here:
You may have heard:
DULF court date delayed while prosecution service assesses moving forward with charges. Why?!
We have a new email template at
Help us &
@momsstoptheharm
tell the PPSC: Drop the charges now!
busts like this tend to generate further negative impacts, particularly with no regulated market alternative for people to turn to
"It's time for journalists to stop reporting uncritically on drug busts:"
Arrests, fentanyl, cocaine and cash seized in VPD investigation of Montreal’s Zone 43 gang, working with (for?) the Wolfpack in the DTES. Story to follow…
solidarity with
@harmreductlynn
saying free DULF from DUBLIN - just as David Eby wakes up with his morning coffee and decides what drug user hate he'll spew today
the BC government published a 252 page Freedom of Information document on DULF-related gov't correspondence
there are 251 pages in support of DULF & 1 countering DULF's work...it's from Elenore Sturko
#dulfsaveslives
#cdnpoli
Canada's first "safe supply" program in London started in 2016.
It’s a warning to BC that the harms of "safe supply" continue to get worse.
Conservatives of BC will end Eby's dangerous drug experiment and instead fund detox, treatment & recovery.
#bcpoli
🚨 BREAKING: Vancouver Fire fighters set to respond to a record 9,000 overdose calls in 2023. Over 80% of deaths occurred indoors, fuelled by Fentanyl. Our members risk burnout; urgent action needed for their well-being as well as the public.
#VancouverFirefighters
#VanPoli
There is no such thing as safe use of illicit drugs.
Yesterday at the SARM Convention I spoke to how our government will focus all of our resources and opportunities on providing a recovery oriented system of care.
thank you everyone who came out today from Vancouver to Nelson to Calgary to Dublin to Belfast to London to virtual support ❤️&✊🏽
the administrative of justice for saving lives should be to free DULF immediately. and let us get back to work on ending the crisis!
#nomoredrugwar
In Ontario Dilauded made up roughly half of all Hydromorphone police seized in 2023. LPS Deputy Chief Paul Bastien believes it’s a consequence of “safer opioid supply”
Under the NDP, taxpayer funded drug trafficking is also happening in BC.
#bcpoli
syringe distribution was unsanctioned
safe injection sites like Insite were illegal
overdose prevention sites from Vancouver to
@TorontoOPS
to Scotland were breaking the law
it is not in public interest to criminalize saving lives!
as
@momsstoptheharm
,
@msth_BC
Director Traci said, this is an APPALLING framing of a crisis killing 6 of us per day in BC
today, CDN Health Minister said the drug toxicity crisis harming & killing our communities is "a crisis of people who don't have enough love." Disgusting ⬇️
🧵 "How Police Drug Seizures Are Making Life Worse on the Downtown Eastside"
VPD claims not to target users. But officers seized small amounts of drugs more than 15,000 times in three years
The Drug User Liberation Front, funded with tax dollars by David Eby and the NDP, has been charged with criminal drug trafficking.
@voteBCUnited
has long been calling for an investigation into DULF, which was buying illicit heroin, cocaine, & meth with your tax dollars.
#BCpoli
More than 8,000 people died prematurely last year by overdose/poisoning in Canada, and it has become so normalized in the public sphere that this barely got media coverage over the past three days.
A symptom of dehumanization.
what could be worse than trying to prep for an OD response so that someone doesn't die, where seconds are of the essence, and this shitty creep named Simon tries to follow you to snap photos that he'll later edit like he's on broken windows XP computer
Simon, that time when you tried to follow me to a suspected OD and I had to ask you not to, did you plan on publishing that persons photo without their permission?
Do you think that doctors should hand out "safe" meth and cocaine? Dr. Andrea Sereda, one of Canada's most prominent safer supply activists, seems to think so – although she's apparently withholding that information from the public.
Take a listen.
chairing a committee that leaned on a PDF crafted by a disgraced academic that did not even follow the correct steps for one of the most basic research methods, and which would never pass any peer review process (and hasn't!), is not really something to be proud of actually
When I served as Chair of the Safe Supply Committee we investigated safe supply policies. We found no evidence that they would reduce overdoses and that these policies would have the opposite effect and result in more drugs ending up inthe hands of our children and more overdoses
"Due to prohibitionist policies and practices, a poisoned illegal drug supply, and inadequate access to flexible substitution programs, Canada is currently experiencing the worst illegal drug overdose death epidemic in its history"
@NSS_CoP
which is led by
@HealthCentre
in
#LdnOnt
posted a thread in support of
#DULF
and compassion clubs in Nov/23
@HealthCentre
is part of
#LdnOnt
’s Whole of Community System Response to the addiction and homeless crisis facing our city.
Any questions regarding this?
DULF SC praises HRNA on their legal victory and injunction against
@Dave_Eby
&
@mikefarnworthbc
's draconian Bill 34
Bill 34 would increase the criminalization of people *suspected* of using substances almost anywhere outdoors during a public health emergency🧵
politicians can follow Elenore Sturko's panic as she runs from provincial riding to riding to avoid losing. or they can be morally courageous and support solutions to the public health emergency
#DULFSAVESLIVES
Eby’s NDP funded DULF & Trudeau’s Liberals supported it.
Former Liberal Minister Carolyn Bennett visited the illegal operation & to celebrate, DULF trafficked illicit drugs in her honour.
It’s time for a public inquiry.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
Lesson learned: if you relentlessly tell the truth, again and again, in the face of a powerful disinformation campaign, eventually you can affect change.
💥 THURS MARCH 7, 8AM
🚩 850 WEST GEORGIA
RALLY for
@DULFBC
& VANDU's judicial review on March 7–8
In 2022, Health Canada rejected our Section 56 exemption request to operate a life-saving compassion club. We're fighting back.
For more on the case:
Health Canada could've protected DULF legally—instead their staff chose to make DULF vulnerable to police raids & arrests
that ultimately cut 47 people off a program where no one died
Legalize compassion clubs to save lives now!
Court Will Decide If Crackdown on ‘Compassion Clubs’ to Save Lives During Overdose Crisis Was Reasonable.
Judicial review to evaluate whether Vancouver drug advocacy group can distribute safe supply through “compassion clubs”
#bcpoli
#canpoli
"demonizing a class of drugs as the source of the problem not only misses the point but has done tremendous harm...its as if all opioids have become a free-floating evil that cause death on contact"
Karen Ward
Staff are working hard to secure ongoing funding to continue the operation of additional public washrooms in DTES. However, we need to find a way to do this effectively, given the $400,000+ in grant money your organization has received to operate this bathroom.
#vanpoli
on one hand, a lot of people will likely die based on all the trends and information we have
on the other hand, as Keith points out, it could be quite popular!
@dulfsolidarity
but also… I have always felt safer in a drug den than in a bar full of conservative men. AND..”Drug dens” were the birth places of harm reduction before we even had a name for it
making the crisis seem unsolvable instead of employing known supply intervention strategies is a political strategy that costs peoples' lives and places blame on the dead
im very tired of people conflating the poisoning massacre with addiction.
these are separate issues that overlap but they are not the same thing and do not have the same solutions.
FFS.
after
@DULFBC
's closure:
they found themselves their room, using alone during an ongoing toxic drug crisis that has killed more than 34,400 Canadians since 2016.
“It’s fucking scary,” Felix told
@TheTyee
Read this story by
@Michelle_Gamage
:
#vanpoli
🧪median fentanyl concentration: 8.9%
🧪median fluorofentanyl concentration: 9.2%
🧪carfentanil found in 10 down samples
🧪benzodiazepines found in 54% of down samples
🧪bromazolam is the most common benzo found at a median concentration of 3.6%
🧪xylazine found in 17 samples
Notably, the President of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police, Fiona Wilson, testified in parliament that *half* of the hydromorphone recently seized in the province could be attributed to safer supply. [19]
email template updated to include language & recommendation from today's Death Review Panel Report, which sounds like the framework
@DULFBC
had been showing us is possible
please continue to write in & show that charges are NOT in the public interest!
We’re taking action to give police the enforcement tools they need to keep parks, hospitals and transit safe from public drug use. We’re doing this while we expand treatment options to help people stay alive and get better.
(2/3)
Jennifer Whiteside re-releases a similar statement each month while refusing supply intervention &
@adriandix
doesn't even acknowledge the blood covering his hands
Today, we acknowledge with deep sadness the latest report from the BC Coroners Service, which reveals the tragic loss of 181 and 185 people in British Columbia this May and June due to toxic-drug poisoning.
we slightly edited the lie that Adam Zivo obtained a recording of a private meeting......what he actually obtained was a recording of a public youtube video
We slightly edited the column, and added an editor's note. The main argument of the column, I believe, stands as is. Those running publicly funded programs shouldn't be surprised by scrutiny. I offered Dr. Sereda space to write a rebuttal last year, she declined.
there is nothing to gain by engaging with this already disgraced academic with too much time on his hands
advice to our followers:
1) block this rage farming troll
2) experience relief
Drug legalizers insist diverted "safe supply" is not causing addiction, especially in youth.
If you say it is, they accuse you of spreading misinformation & fearmongering.
Bonnie Henry says diverted "safe supply" is causing addiction, incl in youth, and calls it compassionate.
While the coroners service calls for "access without a prescription to the class of opioid & stimulant drugs", the government shuts down and criminalizes DULF.
This is a travesty, a crime, in light of the fact that every day in BC almost 6 families plan funeral.
#DULFsavesLives
probably worth noting that these "opinion" pieces are being done while he runs a nonprofit with Conservative Party (
@CPC_HQ
) candidate. a content creator willing to put ppl in potential danger for a grift
Rally and March for Safe Supply, in Solidarity with Drug User Liberation Front
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
War Memorial, Central Memorial Park, Calgary
1:30-2pm: Speeches
2-2:30pm: March to Provincial Courthouse
DM to speak or help organize.
Please share 💜
Today, we learned that the radical BC NDP plan to put hard drugs on the shelves of retail spaces in British Columbia.
Yes, you read that right. Dr. Bonnie Henry, Adrian Dix, David Eby and this extremist NDP government needs to go.
#bcpoli
Join us:
“When the law is impeding that kind of prevention of death, the law needs to be changed,” Dylan Griffith said.
Nelson group rallies in support of safe drug supply
At a certain point you have to look at BC’s political institutions and leaders and think not only are some captured in a corrupt narco economy but some are useful idiots with views apologetic to a narco economy that will only make BC’s drug overdose crisis worsen.
🚨 News 🚨 BC's top doctor, Bonnie Henry, commissioned a confidential report which concluded that "safer supply" diversion would be a "financial windfall" for "profiteers" and organized crime. She then buried the report and ignored its findings. [1]
What happened to consequences?
If you are a drug dealer causing addiction and harm you should have swift and harsh consequences. How is it that we allow drug dealing in places like hospitals and prisons? Harm reduction should not mean a free for all.
Have a real treatment