Overdose Awareness Day is an international event held at the end of every August. In Nova Scotia, 56 people died in 2018 from opioid related overdoses alone. Continue reading
How do you balance harm reduction needs and people’s concerns about having those services close to home? Continue reading
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The federal government has granted HaliFIX Overdose Prevention Society a one-year exemption to operate an Urgent Public Health Need Site out of the basement of Direction 180 on Gottigen Street. Continue reading
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Supervised consumption sites have been a hot topic in Alberta long before the last provincial election. Continue reading
In Alberta, funding for any new supervised consumption sites, including a permanent facility planned for Red Deer, was recently frozen, pending a review. Continue reading
HIV-AIDS Regional Services (HARS) Kingston now has a new outreach tool in the form of a mobile harm reduction vehicle. Staff are working to retrofit a used ambulance as a regional mobile unit, providing services to rural areas within the Kingston region. “This week, what we’re doing is we are taking off all of the… Continue reading
The initiative, Get Your Drugs Tested, encourages users to send samples of the drugs they’re using to an overdose prevention site to be screened for what’s in them. Continue reading
Interior Health says the site will only stay up while repairs are made to its mobile safe injection vehicle. Continue reading
Barrie city council will decide whether to endorse the site’s application at its meeting on June 3. Continue reading
The HaliFIX Overdose Prevention Society plans to apply to Health Canada for an exemption that would allow them to proceed with building a “barebones site.” Continue reading