Break The Needle By Alexandra Keeler A recent report calls on the newly-created Canada’s Drug Agency to implement a strategy to improve prescription medication practices As...
Break The Needle By Alexandra Keeler The launch of Alberta’s Centre of Recovery Excellence comes as Ontario and Saskatchewan also shift to recovery-oriented models This fall,...
A photo of the South Riverdale neighbourhood. (Photo credit: Andrea Nickel) News release from Break The Needle By Alexandra Keeler Ontario’s decision to close safe consumption...
From Break The Needle British Columbia’s top doctor released a report arguing that the legalization of all drugs combats “racism” and “colonialism.” That’s historically illiterate. The...
News release from Break The Needle SABRINA MADDEAUX This month, police in London, Ont., admitted to what critics have said all along: safer supply diversion is...
Dr. Bonnie Henry has been British Columbia’s provincial health officer since 2014. She has used her position to advocate for expanded legal access to addictive drugs....
A man considers using a prescription opioid. Credit: Dreamstime By Liam Hunt Addiction physician Dr. Sharon Koivu has seen the effects of safer supply programs in...
A London police drug seizure in April included 9,298 Dilaudid eight milligram tablets. By Matthew Hannick Doctors and journalists wondering why local police failed to disclose...
Dr. Lori Regenstreif, MD, MSc, CCFP (AM), FCFP, MScCH (AMH), CISAM, has been working as an addiction medicine physician in inner city Hamilton, Ontario, since 2004....
BREAK THE NEEDLE By Rahim Mohamed The recovery-oriented PROSPER Symposium was protested by harm reduction activists. A star-studded symposium on recovery-oriented drug policy went off without...