Harm reduction nurse with lived experience.
Joined May 2012
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31 Mar 2023
A little look into the monitoring program I was mandated into from 2016-2020. Thousands of dollars. Hundreds of urine samples.
This is causing so much harm to so many people.
30 Mar 2023
Workers in British Columbia are being forced into mandatory drug testing and controversial ‘recovery’ programs run by private companies.
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k rock retweeted
1 Mar 2025
Harm reduction isn’t about nudging people toward abstinence—it’s about rejecting the idea that drug use makes someone disposable in the first place.
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10 Feb 2025
The gap between First Nations and non-First Nations life expectancy in Alberta is 19 years, wider now than any other point on record. This is a provincial and national emergency. #ableg
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k rock retweeted
5 Feb 2025
the fact that the decline in deaths is consistent across jurisdictions with vastly different approaches indicates that the primary cause of the reduction of fatalities is the changes in the unregulated drug supply –
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k rock retweeted
14 Oct 2024
Alberta’s ban on safer supply undermines personal freedom and restricts evidence-based healthcare.
Safer supply and political interference in medical practice: Alberta's Narcotics Transition Services
Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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k rock retweeted
5 Oct 2024
Unhoused people are victims of homelessness, not the cause of homelessness.
Demonizing them won’t actually get rid of homelessness.
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5 Oct 2024
RT @ehyshka: Much needed context on the political debate surrounding Calgary’s lone SCS.
If closed, Calgary would stand out as one of the…
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k rock retweeted
3 Oct 2024
As the future of Calgary's only supervised drug-use site is being debated, some stats on its usage: Safeworks has recorded more than 305,000 client visits since opening in Oct 2017. Between then and March 2024, staff responded to 7,730 overdoses. There have been no deaths. #yyc
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k rock retweeted
3 Oct 2024
@DanWilliamsALTA Detox beds are great, but last I checked, they don’t save lives during an overdose. Calgarians know we need BOTH. 294 signatures say you're missing the point. Sign here: forms.gle/thJn62ijK4bJ346N7 #ableg #yyccc #abpoli
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k rock retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Hi folks. It's been a long time. I have been off this platform for many reasons. It's pretty toxic around here sometimes and I needed a long extended break. It was nice. I probably won't stay for long.
But let's talk about Family Medicine in #Alberta 👇
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13 Sep 2024
RT @ehyshka: A lot of recent media coverage on supervised consumption sites in Canada. If you want to know how they work and what the evide…
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5 Sep 2024
A note from our federal chief nursing officer on the importance of harm reduction: Nursing is harm reduction.
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k rock retweeted
3 Sep 2024
Your reminder that reducing access to sex education at the same time as reducing access to reproductive healthcare will result in more sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies.
But maybe that is the point?
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3 Sep 2024
The Alberta government says it’s moving ahead this fall with legislation that would require parents to proactively sign up to have their children opt-in, rather than the usual practice of opting out, for sex education. calgary.citynews.ca/2024/09/…
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k rock retweeted
5 Sep 2024
The overdose situation we find ourselves in is not coming in waves as is often described - it is a wildfire that is fueled by an unregulated and unsafe drug supply caused by decades of prohibition.
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