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Ninety Alberta businesses have formed a coalition in support of harm reduction to counter the government’s assertion that businesses oppose supervised drug-use sites in their communities.
Each + Every: Businesses for Harm Reduction, a grassroots organization that brings together companies to accelerate drug policy reform, penned an open letter to the UCP government calling on it to “take immediate and meaningful action” to address the escalating drug toxicity crisis.
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“Alberta’s provincial government did not create the toxic drug crisis that claimed more Albertan lives in 2020 than COVID-19. Responsibility for the root of the crisis lies primarily at the feet of our federal government for perpetuating a century of racially oppressive drug policy fuelled by moral panic,” reads the open letter