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...
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. 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....
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...
Illustration courtesy of Midjourney News release from Break The Needle Vancouverite Mark Budworth says he was exposed to illicit drug smoke while recovering from an ankle...
Image courtesy of Midjourney. BREAK THE NEEDLE AND ADAM ZIVO How a Small Population Fuels a Black Market Epidemic, Echoing Troubling Parallels in Sweden A significant amount of...
“It’s just… it’s created more addicts,” says David McEvoy, an Ottawa-based outreach worker who specializes in overdose prevention. BREAK THE NEEDLE APR 28 “Safer supply” refers...
