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Category: Media Kit

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The Impact of Stigma and Avoiding Stigmatizing Language

October 12, 2020 (November 10, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

Because many of the activities around substance use are criminalized, people who use substances are stigmatized twice—as people who use drugs and as criminals.

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Difference Between Supervised Consumption Sites and Overdose Prevention Sites

May 13, 2020 (October 26, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

While there are differences between overdose prevention and supervised consumptions sites operate, both saves lives and make communities safer

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Types of Drugs

May 13, 2020 (January 13, 2021)
By peterkimcdpc

There are four main classifications of drugs grouped according to their physiological effects.

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Public Health and Human Rights Approach to Substances

May 13, 2020 (December 27, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

Envisioning a new way forward that protects public health and makes communities safer for everyone

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Outcomes of our Current Drug Policies

May 12, 2020 (December 30, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

Our current drug policies have fuelled overdose deaths and high-level organized crime. They’ve done little to protect public health.

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Difference Between Decriminalization and Legal Regulation

May 12, 2020 (October 26, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

Drug polices grounded in public health and human rights principles will save lives and keep Canadians safe.

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What is Harm Reduction?

May 12, 2020 (October 23, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

The evidence is clear: harm reduction saves lives, saves money, and does not enable drug use.

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Canada’s Current Approach to Drugs

May 12, 2020 (October 26, 2020)
By peterkimcdpc

Rather than promoting health of Canadians, drug laws introduced in the early 1900s were meant for social control and aimed at certain groups of people

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The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition is a partner project with the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), a research centre based at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

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