Fraser Health and Surrey RCMP are issuing a warning to people who use drugs following a dramatic increase in the number of overdoses in the last 24 hours. “It…
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Series of 7 Community Education Lectures Please join speaker Mark Haden, M.S.W., Adjunct Professor UBC School of Population and Public Health at the Simon Fraser University-Surrey Campus 13450 – 102nd Avenue, Surrey,…
Series of 7 Community Education Lectures Please join speaker Mark Haden, M.S.W., Adjunct Professor UBC School of Population and Public Health at the Simon Fraser University-Surrey Campus 13450 – 102nd Avenue, Surrey,…
By Mike Archer. For those who don’t understand why the mentally ill, the drug addicted and the alcohol dependant have trouble ‘pulling themselves up by their bootstraps’ here is a…
From DebbieBrayerBlog. [excerpt] In the wake of the tragic loss of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a great artist, partner, father, brother, and son, I offer the following facts about the neurological…
By Regina Dalton. It’s not unusual to hear people make comments — often less than charitable — about those who deal with addictions. Through my own experiences offered below, I…
In the interests of pointing out the obvious (to a group of people who clearly wouldn’t recognize it if it smacked them in the face), the dusty old game plan…
By Phil Gibson. Tory Health Minister Panicked about Wrong Drug Crisis Lost in Conservative clucking over heroin is a serious spike in prescription painkiller deaths. Published on The Tyee.ca, 7 Oct…
By Cory Doctorow. A ratty paradise that challenges our assumptions about addiction Originally published on Boingboing.nett at 7:34 pm Mon, Sep 16, 2013 Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park [excerpt] This article…
By Pastor Ward Draper. These words were posted on my Facebook wall as a comment after I had posted a link to a Huffington post article regarding the homeless lawsuits…