Centre of Recovery Excellence using health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety The Alberta government's Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers ...

Here I’m criticizing the Alberta government’s ‘study’ on its own supervised consumption site closures by the merits of its *corruption alone*

Someone more qualified should examine its methodology. Knowing this government, I expect it’s very bad.
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What to know about Alberta's Bill 11, which threatens public health care in Canada. Report by @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Up to 89 percent of ambulances for overdoses concealed in record year, as Alberta health care careens into crisis The Alberta government says it has “the most transparent data reporting system in North America" for drug toxicity. In reality, internal data manipulation causes most emergency calls to go unreported.

Alberta Health Services docs obtained via freedom of information request show that up to 85 percent of provincial EMS dispatches for drug toxicity were not reported by the Alberta government, @drugdatadecoded.ca reports:
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I recently spoke with @cmaj.ca podcast about involuntary treatment for substance use. Have a listen.

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Toronto’s Supervised Consumption Sites and Local Crime This ecological cohort study evaluates the association between overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites and local crime and disorder in Toronto.

Toronto’s Supervised Consumption Sites & Local Crime jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"...associated with neutral to positive improvements in local crime trends."

"...assaults, robberies, thefts over $5000, bicycle thefts, and thefts from motor vehicles also decreased."

Profit is, indeed, the whole point. Excellent summary.

A few companies have made a great deal of money under the Alberta Recovery Model and there's little to show that they have actually delivered on the outcomes Albertans expect. Are people's health outcomes better off with a two-tier, American-style healthcare? The answer is almost always NO.

Involuntary treatment for substance use: application of Kass’ ethical framework to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of develo...

I contributed to this @cmaj.ca Commentary because:

1. Choosing control over care is a failure of imagination that invites despair; and,

2. Health equity requires advocacy.

#HealthEquity
#DecolonizeCare
#CareOverControl
@dsdp.ca @nobill53ab.bsky.social
www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250910

An Alberta Doctor’s Back-to-School Memo on Measles and Vaccines | The Tyee The illness is highly infectious and dangerous. And, like other diseases, preventable.

An Alberta Doctor's Back-to-School Memo on Measles and Vaccines via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Province moving backwards by closing harm reduction centres by Shaye Ganam Bonnie Larson is a clinical assistant professor in the University of Calgary Department of Family Medicine

Thanks Shaye Ganam @globalnews.ca for having me on the show to discuss how #harmreduction services are essential resource hubs and part of the solution to the drug poisoning crisis.
#healthequity

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Trying to reach physician colleagues with this one 😬 … generally a tough, conservative audience.

We Need Alternatives to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act | The Tyee A doctor calls for better investments in housing and mental health care, not policing.

We Need Alternatives to Alberta's Compassionate Intervention Act via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Psychedelics Approval - Money Visions - Alberta Views For patients with substance use disorders and trauma, psychedelics would now be available as treatments. Did I hear that correctly?

So happy to see @bonnierae.bsky.social’s “Money Visions: What’s behind the UCP’s approval of psychedelics?” nominated for a National Magazine Award!!! 🔥
Read it at @albertaviews.bsky.social: albertaviews.ca/money-visions/

People living with HIV deserve better.
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