Manufacturers are required, by Tuesday, to ensure that warnings about harms such as cancer, impotence, leukemia and damage to organs are printed directly on individual cigarettes. Retailers must sell only packages with those cigarettes by July 31. toronto.citynews.ca/2024/04/29/cig…

“We should work toward solutions like housing and mental health supports and instead, they regressed to the only thing they know, which is punishment,” 🍉 Nurse Ranger 💊

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'“If you’re studying people who survived into middle age, didn’t quit drinking because of a problem and didn’t become a heavy drinker, that’s a very select group,” Naimi said.' ctvnews.ca/health/less-al…

'The province has not adequately increased harm reduction services like overdose prevention sites, expanded safer supply and accessible treatment options that are needed to save lives, say Mullins, Larkin and HRNA.' cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

'A recent study from CCSA shows that net government revenue from alcohol sales in 2020 was $13 billion, while the net social costs from alcohol use were $19 billion, leaving Canadians with a $6 billion alcohol deficit.'

Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

Our weekly report is out for the week of April 15th showing results from our #drugchecking project in Victoria, BC ( #yyj ). To learn more about our project and to access our monthly and yearly reports, please visit substance.uvic.ca #bcpoli #safesupplyNOW #harmreduction

'Living on the EIDGE' is a brand new VANDU Zine produced by and for illicit drinkers! (1/3)

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From Scotland: 'For the past six years, the price per unit of alcohol has been 50p but MSPs have voted to put it up to 65p from the end of September – a move designed to reflect rises in inflation.' bbc.com/news/articles/…

CISUR scientist Tim Stockwell presenting in Edinburgh today.

Our weekly report is out for the week of April 8th showing results from our #drugchecking project in Victoria, BC ( #yyj ). To learn more about our project and to access our monthly and yearly reports, please visit substance.uvic.ca #bcpoli #safesupplyNOW #harmreduction

'That's a lot of people that no longer exist, who were kind and thoughtful and just really lovely people.' -VANDU's Brittany Graham. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

The Ontario government’s proposed changes represent the largest deregulation of alcohol policy in Canada in decades, and a large body of research cautions that these changes may lead to increased alcohol consumption and associated harms.
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'There are still holdouts now, but I think the majority of people in epidemiology - especially alcohol epidemiology - are sceptical about the health benefits.' CISUR scientist Tim Stockwell in The Herald.

'Alcohol consumption in the United States has generally increased over the last 20 years, said Dr. Timothy Naimi, the director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria.' nytimes.com/2024/04/12/wel…

#Montreal 's 1st #SupervisedInhalation centre to open in Saint-Henri cbc.ca/news/canada/mo… via CBC News 🍁 #HarmReduction

As explained by Tim Stockwell, former CISUR director, lifetime abstainers start out less healthy than their drinking peers, beginning at the legal drinking age.'

The CISUR conducted an environmental scan to identify groups and organizations in Canadian provinces and territories who involve people with lived and living experience in their work.

The information generated from the search is now available: ow.ly/56Jn50R8v8h

'When asked Thursday by The Globe and Mail whether this meant requiring overdose prevention services or designated-use spaces in every hospital in B.C., the minister replied: “That is the purpose of the effort.”'

Do you want to know more about our safe consumption services in Mexico?

Listen to this ⁦NPR⁩ ⁦Radio Ambulante⁩ episode that shows the amazing work by ⁦Verter AC⁩ and ⁦PrevenCasa⁩

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