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Changing how we talk about substance use

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Getting to Tomorrow Media Guide

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Sample Presentation to City Council

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Getting to Tomorrow Discussion Guide

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Latest Blog Posts

Shadow Stealer

This is the story of a girl who lost her shadow. She would spend most of her life searching for this shadow. She lost it as a…

A letter to Nanaimo

WARNING: This blog contains mention of sexual abuse Dear Nanaimo, I am writing this letter to inform you, the city I have grown to love and the…

Getting to Tomorrow: Nanaimo dialogues speech

June 16 – I am deeply grateful to be gathered here with you here on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. My name…

We have a lot of work to do and a lot of love to spread

My name is Annie and I am Cree from La Ronge in Northern Saskatchewan. I left there when was 8 because I was sick with Tuberculosis and…

OAT “Therapy” and me

I live in Nanaimo, also known as the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nations. It’s a city that goes by many other names: “The City with…

The Abyss

Unending darkness on unending night. Each way I turn, above me and below. Threatening to rebirth my greatest fears, But still I do not run from the…

I’m ready for a miracle

My whole life revolves around her Even though her evil side can burn She loves to feed off me Wastes my life, my energy Of the dangers,…

Why do I use?

I do it to forget Forget all the things I regret. I do it to escape reality To find a new identity. I do it to manage…

I lost my star

Monday night, I lost my star. A beautiful man that I have at heart.

Drug policy and racism in Canada

“The racist and anti-Black harms facilitated by drug law enforcement have extended beyond the criminal justice system.”

COVID & Harm Reduction

COVID & Harm Reduction

three people holding up signs at the safe supply rally in Vancouver, 2020

Resources for communities responding to dual health crises

News & Updates

News & Updates

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Opinion: COVID-19 made B.C.'s toxic drug crisis even worse (Burnaby Now)

Videos

Videos

Survival Sex Trade Awareness

I’d Rather Struggle: Substance Use & Stigma in Health & Social Services

Peer Health Navigator Program (Part 3): Knowledge

Peer Health Navigator Program (Part 2): Relationships

Peer Health Navigator Program (Part 1): Trust

Seeing Beyond Substances