What if drug users in recovery had, like, a home?
Has anybody thought about that?
11.03.2026 20:07
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What if drug users in recovery had, like, a home?
Has anybody thought about that?
Technically, you don’t even need to look at the methodology of this ‘study,’ because the whole thing reeks so badly of conflict of interest, data manipulation and misinterpretation that none of it is worth considering on methodological grounds.
But all the same!
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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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"After years of mass fatalities during a toxic drug crisis, researchers warn that sometimes the population at risk can shrink. When thousands of people die, fewer people remain in the statistics."
“You can’t die twice.” @reclaimcollective.bsky.social
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The authors want to claim that closing SCS didn't cause deaths *without citing* the landmark study from Toronto showing that SCS reduced deaths in neighbourhoods that contain them by 67% vs neighbourhood that don't!
How do you square that? Well, bad science. 8/
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That's not only disingenuous. This is a *government study.* Saying they simply receive provincial funding is a choice that degrades the very notion of arm's length research.
But some of these authors have grown awfully comfortable with conflicts of interest, so this shouldn't be surprising. 5/
So CoRE published a 'study' using data collected at supervised consumption sites.
The main problem? As I showed in those two stories from February, dead people were somehow presenting their personal health numbers at consumption sites.
The data are worthless. 3/
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Begging news outlets, especially @globalnews.ca, to refuse to report Alberta government propaganda around drug death rates without context.
1. Alberta's capital Edmonton is breaking fatality records. Report that first.
2. Lethbridge is the 4th biggest city in the province. It still has...
“Canada’s refusal to fully uphold the right to life has allowed for thousands of preventable deaths across the country. We are hopeful the committee will hold Canada to account & spur the changes we need to ensure all people in Canada can be healthy & safe”
Read more: drugpolicy.ca/canada-chall...
Nowhere has the “free market” solved an affordable housing crisis alone. As I noted Netherlands 34% non-market housing, Denmark 21%, Britain 16%, France 17%. Canada sits at just 3.4%. We need a real plan to scale co-ops, public and geared-to-income homes, with federal investment to match the crisis.
🧵 SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION CLOSURES
It’s been obvious for years that Alberta’s UCP government wants the sites closed.
So what’s stopped them? Why didn’t they just do it after Kenney said he wouldn’t “help addicts inject poison” in 2018?
They needed plausible legitimacy. 1/
The government is taking credit for the fact that Albertans are sicker and doctors are working harder, and calling it a 'gift' to the profession.
ABs shouldn't be fooled by their song and dance...
Even worse: govt is spending MORE per pt in CSFs and private delivery!
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Alberta has a serious disinformation problem, its government weaponizing “experts” willing to cash in credentials for power.
Last year, that tactic — and those people — were leveraged to help close supervised consumption sites across Ontario.
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I wrote you a piece about the concept of moral injury and why we need the voices of the prophets during times when concepts like "ethical compass" and "basic decency" elude us as a collective.
Among other things, it explains moral injury and how to heal from it, which, you know, might be useful.
political determinants of health
www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/01/24/a...
We have tried absolutely nothing and it hasn't worked so now the only obvious solution here is to blame others from other places.
Hey it’s me, a racialized person born in Alberta to an immigrant parent, with trans and queer friends, saying that the UCP does not get to determine who belongs here. All of us, and the Albertans yet to come, deserve to be here. And we must stand with Indigenous people to honour treaty promises.
the only motivation for encampment "sweeps" is cruelty
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SCOOP(s)
The Playbook for closing supervised consumption sites.
Far too many ledes in this story, and it’s already in two parts. (One was even a CBC headline this morning.)
Please read & share - this one cost dozens of hours and $378 in FOIP fees!
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From the DM's...
A very well placed source is telling us that at least one policing agency in Alberta is compiling wishlists of individuals they immediately want to detain for forced treatment as soon as the facility is built.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
read the first peer-reviewed research paper using data P.O.W.E.R. collected and analyzed via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social:
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#drugsky #harmreduction @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social @hracollective.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social
We need stricter gun laws and universal, single payer, mental health care.
Alberta's new two-tier legislation encourages a private health insurance market for services covered under the Canada Health Act. It's a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed+ profit-taking, not “European” health care @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
“Bill 11 brings two-tier, American-style health care to Alberta. It will mean that Albertans will experience a system where those who have money will be able to pay to have access to quicker care & the rest of us will be left waiting longer or go without," said FOM's Chris Gallaway.
Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway
The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test
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“The only people, frankly, benefiting from the current model are organized crime and some of these private residential treatment centres who are charging exorbitant amounts to families... without any evidence that those are effective,"
Read @thetyee.ca full article here: thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
First, the UCP said there was an “election integrity crisis," which led to a voter ID law.
Then a “national unity crisis” → a sovereignty referendum.
Now a “crisis of confidence” in the courts → defunding judges.
There is no evidence of these crises.
The UCP is trying to manufacture them.
TL;DR: Alberta would need 11 hospitals in Edmonton and Calgary to be resourced to the Canadian average.
1/6 🏥 Why is Alberta’s healthcare system under such strain? It’s not "management"—it’s a numbers problem 40 years in the making. Let’s look at the data. 🧵 #AbLeg #CdnHealth
