Vancouver saw a DECREASE in complaints about public drug use since #decrim Jan ‘23.

Interesting … because that has not been the political narrative by the opposition parties provincially and federally

#bcpoli #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis

Thankfully things that are illegal don't happen so case closed. We can go back to innocent 2022 when nobody used drugs in parks.

My wife was born a year later. Ridiculous that people continue to pretend apartheid is some abstract concept from history.

This was just 38 years ago.

Did X delete YouTuber Maher Musalli's account after he made this (brilliant) video about the Gaza Genocide?

'A preliminary analysis of clinical notes from a random sample of 2,700 patients with SUD or opioid use disorder (OUD) diagnoses showed that 84.4% (n=2,279) of patients had notes that contained stigmatizing language.'

... and we wonder why LLMs write with bias? 🫠

wait macklemore actually cooked with this

To discuss legalisation of heroin betrays a deep misunderstanding of the current crisis (one can only assume intentional at this point) - good luck actually finding any heroin in BC.

The reflections of health service providers on implementing contingency management for methamphetamine use disorder in Australia

Simon Clay, Zachary Wilkinson, Meredith Ginley et al Shalini Arunogiri Samantha Colledge-Frisby (PhD) Jack Nagle Michael Farrell @RebecaMcketin

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…

Despite the success of pill testing trials in Australia, there continues to be ideological opposition to a practice that could save lives.

Read the article: insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/16/pill-t…

In Norway they tax their fossil fuel industry properly and give kids free university education, but here in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni. Budgets are all about choices #auspol #insiders abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0…

“According to the report, Hamas was guaranteed by the U.S. for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and that Israeli forces will not continue fighting once the hostages are released. An Israeli official told Haaretz that 'Israel will, under no circumstances, agree to end…

Quite a statement by the International Criminal Court, asking that they stop being 'intimidated' and 'threatened' (no brownie point for guessing by whom...)

We can only imagine the pressure they must be under...

And those threats are real: remember that the US has a law…

“When I was your age, I already owned a house”

A few weeks after a copper (allegedly) murdered two gay men, NSW Police have granted bail to a 28 yo cop charged with assault, stalking and harassment—and he’s been suspended *with pay*

Stop asking why we don’t report to police

Israeli authorities block, delay, and restrict the entry of humanitarian aid and essential medical supplies into #Gaza . As they hold full control over entry and exit points into Gaza, we are struggling to bring in vital equipment including generators, oxygen concentrators and…

MARC Deputy Director Prof. Suzanne Nielsen spoke to The Guardian about new research presented at today's Emerging Researcher Symposium.

The study found almost 40 per cent of pharmacies do not stock the life-saving overdose medicine naloxone.

Read here: theguardian.com/australia-news…

A Palestinian student at Columbia was arbitrarily suspended along with many other arbitrary suspensions today. Columbia is racially profiling students who have no involvement with the ongoing protests and suspending them with no due process.

we will knock the teeth out of the mouths of every associate professor and poli sci major in this god damn country if that's what it takes to make you love netanyahu