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Advocates worry health policy change another government dismissal of harm reduction Janet French © Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press A woman prepares her dose of crack cocaine at a supervised consumption site in Ottawa in January 2021. A newly revised health policy has become the latest symptom of a provincial tug-of-war between government and harm reduction experts in Alberta. At the behest of the UCP government, Alberta Health Services has revised its strategy on substance use, where the phrase harm reduction has been crossed out dozens of times and references to a recovery-oriented approach have been written in. Though these are small changes within the text of a nine-page document, they send a loud signal about the ongoing debate between Alberta s UCP government and substance use experts around the best way to tackle the province s deadly struggle with addictions.

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