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Drug checking is a harm reduction practice that provides chemical analysis of substances. Fentanyl test strips help drug users ensure that substances are free of dangerous fentanyl. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Scaling up community drug-checking services in B.C. could help respond to the overdose crisis

Piotr Burek, University of Victoria; Bruce Wallace, University of Victoria, and Dennis Hore, University of Victoria

Most consumables in Canada have quality controls that inform purchasing and consumption decisions. People who use illicit drugs deserve the same. Drug checking provides that harm-reduction service.
Resistance to policies like safe supply still create barriers for vulnerable people, despite evidence that harm reduction saves lives. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Let evidence, not opinion, guide harm reduction policy and practice in Canada’s drug poisoning crisis

Karla Ghartey, University of Toronto and Ross Upshur, University of Toronto

Harm reduction is grounded in evidence. But policies, stigma and ignorance about substance use still create barriers in battling Canada’s drug poisoning crisis.
Methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine distributed by the Drug User Liberation Front, a grassroots organization proving a safe supply of illicit drugs, in Vancouver, in April 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Safer supply of opioids saves lives: Providing alternatives to toxic street drugs

Rose A Schmidt, University of Toronto; Gillian Kolla, University of Victoria, and Nat Kaminski, University of Toronto

People are dying from using a toxic drug supply. Safer supply and other approaches that listen to the needs of people who use drugs are critical to saving lives and addressing the opioid crisis.

Related Topics

  1. Addiction
  2. British Columbia
  3. drug poisoning
  4. Drugs
  5. Fentanyl
  6. Harm reduction
  7. Opioid crisis
  8. Opioids
  9. Overdose
  10. Substance use

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