Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Overdose deaths are surging in Canada, and clergy close to the crisis are doing the hard work of saying goodbye. We are all treasures and valuable. Drug users are like the lepers of our time. You can’t talk about them. They are not viewed as people. We need to relearn that we are people together. […]
New data from BC Coroners Service shows 1,716 died of an overdose in 2020. When Albert Einstein explained the 6th dimension and associated growth patterns, he said, “From chaos comes creation. . . “ Because so many have died from overdose (the chaos of extreme drug addiction) there is forward movement (the creation) in BC […]
Street Fentanyl Surges In Western U.S., Leading To Thousands Of Deaths By Brian Mann, NPR, November 17, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/934154859/street-fentanyl-surges-in-western-u-s-leading-to-thousands-of-deaths Seven months ago, when Jake got out of jail in Phoenix, he expected to go back to using his drug of choice: heroin. But the street market for illegal opioids had changed. “I just started smoking […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Universal Mother Mary: Go to the missions, go to the homeless shelters, go to the places of addictions, go to the hospitals where the crack babies cry and need. There are plenty of places for you to begin. Go to the abused children, the women who suffer in silence. And simply offer your Love […]
By Karen Howlett, The Globe and Mail, November 12th, 2020 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-morning-update-canadas-provinces-have-filed-opioid-related-claims/ Canada’s provincial governments have filed opioid-related claims totaling US$67.4-billion in a U.S. court, revealing for the first time how much they have spent fighting an epidemic that has killed thousands of people and devastated communities across the country. The provinces are attempting to recover […]
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business, October 21, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/business/purdue-pharma-guilty-plea/index.html New York (CNN Business) — Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for its role in creating the nation’s opioid crisis and will pay more than $8 billion and close down the company. The money will go […]
San Francisco Is Giving Pregnant Black & Pacific Islander Women $1,000 A Month Rates of premature births & infant mortality are significantly higher for women of color compared to white women, and the new supplement is designed to narrow racial & financial disparities among expectant mothers. By Ashleigh Carter, Now This, Sept. 16, 2020 https://nowthisnews.com/news/san-francisco-gives-black-pacific-islander-moms-1000-a-month […]
Ontario’s coroner reported a 25% rise in fatal overdoses as advocates warn of increasingly toxic street drugs By Susan M. Knight, CBC, June 10, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drug-overdoses-covid19-1.5605563 An epidemic of fatal drug overdoses across Canada is on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that harm-reduction workers and doctors say exacerbates the toxic supply. Overdose prevention sites […]
Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same Jason Lemon, Newsweek, 5/9/19 (https://www.newsweek. com/mexico-decriminalize- drugs-negotiate-us-1421395) Mexico’s president released a new plan last week that called for radical reform to the nation’s drug laws and negotiating with the United States to take similar steps. The plan put forward by […]
Listen to Drug Users and Advocates, the CERB is Harm Reduction Overdose Prevention Ottawa, June 7, 2020 https://overdosepreventionottawa.wordpress.com/ Reckless. This is how Raina Gagnon, an addictions counselor in Ottawa representing Centretown Pharmacy, described the distribution of emergency funds to people who use drugs in an opinion piece last week. Gagnon argues that by accessing the […]
The historic heart of Vancouver is our Downtown Eastside (DTES). One of our oldest neighbourhoods, it is home to many low-income residents. Here people volunteer, contributing countless hours to help improve the community, working for social justice. The residents of the Downtown Eastside struggle with complex challenges including the overdose crisis, escalating crime connected to […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca On the Government of Canada website under the title, Opioid-related Harms, more than 13,900 apparent opioid-related deaths occurred between January 2016 and June 2019 — that’s one every 2 hours. In this BuzzFeed News post called, This Was the Decade Drug Overdoses Killed Nearly Half a Million Americans, author Dan Vergano, December 6, 2019, […]
October 17, 2019, voiceoffreedom.ca https://tinyurl.com/y6hjmf8e Within this post, ‘Our people are dying. . .’ is a candid look at Canada’s Vancouver Downtown Eastside, considered “the epicentre of the country’s opioid crisis. . . the deadly toll of fentanyl. . . laced into street drugs.” “British Columbia has seen the highest drug-related deaths in the country.” […]
By Melanie Schuman, Jean Casarez and Taylor Romine, CNN, August 28, 2019, httpss://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/us/purdue-settlement-ohio/ In the nationwide case, more than 2,000 states, counties, municipalities and Native American governments are suing Purdue Pharma and other opioid companies. Their cases were rolled into one that’s being handled in the federal court district in northern Ohio. The trial date […]
A judge on Aug. 26 found Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid crisis, ordering the company to pay the state $572 million. (Video: Reuters) Johnson & Johnson is Responsible for Fueling Oklahoma’s Opioid Crisis, Judge Rules in Landmark Case Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, August 26, 2019, httpss://www.washingtonpost.com/health/johnson-and-johnson-is-responsible-for-fueling-oklahomas-opioid-crisis-judge-rules-in-landmark-case/2019/08/26 NORMAN, Okla.— A judge Monday found […]
