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11
Dec
All About Drug Checking (Part 2): The Team and the Tech of Music Festivals
Read moreSummer time in British Columbia means the start of music festival season and one of the busiest times of year for drug checking. There were
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21
Nov
Statement on BCCSU Research Independence
Read moreIt is common practice in the health system to evaluate novel (ie. new, different, or innovative) solutions to urgent and emerging public health crises. Examples
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01
Nov
New RN & RPN Certified Practice for Opioid Use Disorder
Read moreThe BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) has approved new and amended standards, limits, and conditions creating a new designation of certified practice for
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26
Jul
All About Drug Checking: The People Behind the Machines
Read moreIn a job that’s part outreach, part technical, drug checking technicians play a pivotal role in community harm reduction. Community drug checking services started being
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13
Apr
More harm: Decamping and displacing unhoused people
Read moreLast week the City of Vancouver forcibly displaced people living in tents along Hastings Street on the Downtown Eastside. City workers and police removed people
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16
Aug
10,000 lives
Read moreAt least 1,095 British Columbians are believed to have been lost to the toxic drug supply between January and June 2022, according to preliminary data
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