The encampment provided shelter to over 150 mostly Indigenous people.(Tim Evans) Many harm reduction practitioners address this reality by placing special emphasis on supporting unhoused substance ...

Stigma can look like telling a person who uses substances that they’re broken, or their spirit is broken, said Kali Rufus-Sedgemore, an Indigenous harm reduction worker and advocate who said ...

“Harm reduction is a pretty controversial topic ... reaching and the latest in a long line of injustices brought upon indigenous peoples.” According to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Indigenous people make up only about 12 per ... while funding for supervised consumption sites and harm reduction initiatives lags far behind need. The ongoing overdose crisis reveals the human ...

Still, Wieman said the latest figures also show that harm-reduction measures are helping to slow the number of deaths. Working with the BC Centre for Disease Control, she said the health authority ...

The opportunity to stay alive. Today, Martinez is the capacity building and Hepatitis C coordinator for the National Harm Reduction Coalition, but his first encounter with harm reduction was as an ...

This “shows us what we are doing, particularly in the area of harm reduction, is helping,” said Dr. Nel Wieman, chief medical officer of the First Nations Health Authority.

Dr. Nel Wieman says Indigenous Peoples continue to be disproportionately ... in the public discourse about the crisis and harm-reduction measures aimed at saving lives. "Now is not the time ...

Still, Wieman said the latest figures also show that harm-reduction measures are helping to slow the number of deaths. Working with the BC Centre for Disease Control, she said the health authority ...