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The Drug Hub
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Getting Out Alive: Surviving Homelessness as a Youth
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Finding the Grey: Tales from treatment from two harm reductionists
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Buying Time
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Experiencing Psychosis: An Article Written by Two Hysterical Women
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Criminalization of illicit substances: A structure to maintain inequality
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The Museum of Past Lives Lived
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Risk Mitigation Guidance is not safe supply – It’s an expanded form of Opioid Agonist Therapy
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Contact High
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Heroin, Crohn’s, and My Story
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Firefighters Suffering Silently
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Stigma is Killing Us
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Wasted Time
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Evaluating the Vancouver Model of Decriminalization
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Why Using Discriminatory Language to Say Only “Addicts” Can Help Themselves is Dangerous
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“You’ve Done Your Time in the Trenches”
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Loves Learning…
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On the Intersection of Transness, Substance Use, and a Broken Healthcare System
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36.4 degrees Celsius
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Enduring Prolonged Grief
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Even just by listening, harm reduction workers can improve mental health among people who use drugs
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To what extent do supervised consumption services allow oral, intranasal, and inhaled drug use?
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Dirty little secrets
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i cannot hold the ocean in my hands, though i’ve tried
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A Safe Place to Use
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Harm Reduction in shelters is a no brainer and will save and change lives
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Drug Use for Grown Ups: A Conversation between Stephanie and Dr. Carl Hart’s Latest Book
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The power of peers in the establishment of supervised injection sites
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Bill C-22 Maintains a Deadly Status Quo: A Montréal Perspective
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Bad Data Lingers: Happy Birthday to the Alberta SCS Report
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Sex, Drugs, and Harm Reduction: We all know it happens, let’s make it safe as possible for everyone who uses drugs.
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How an Alliance between the US and Canada could Empower People on Methadone Maintenance Treatment
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Hepatitis C infection secondary to illicit drug use for prisoners within the correctional system.
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Urinary drug screens: what are they used for and where is the evidence?
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Methadone Prescriptions and Holidays
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I was a Frontline Shelter Worker During the Ongoing Overdose Crisis. It’s Been Over Two Years and I Still Haven’t Recovered.
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