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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
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A letter signed by more than 15 social agencies in Calgary is calling on the province to relocate supervised consumption services near or in homeless shelters frequented by those who need this type of assistance.
The letter, dated June 1, was sent to three cabinet ministers and signed by agencies that offer addictions support or shelter for Calgary’s vulnerable population. It comes shortly after the UCP confirmed it would be closing the Beltline supervised consumption site to open two new sites within undisclosed “existing facilities.”
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