Dustin Godfrey

New Westminster

it's not delivery; it's digiornalist. harm reduction, justice, housing, etc. tenant organizer. *they/them* 🏳️‍⚧️ opinions are my cat's. https://t.co/n4APOopTy

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Articles

BC Enters 10th Year of Overdose Crisis, as It Shutters Harm Reduction Policies

1 week ago | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

As people gathered in Vancouver’s Victory Square on April 14 to mark nine years since British Columbia declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency, an ambulance blaring its siren sped by.
Despite Court Win, Few Consumption Sites Saved From Ontario Shutdown

3 weeks ago | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

Harm reduction advocates in Ontario succeeded in winning a court injunction against a new provincial law barring supervised consumption sites from operating within 200 meters of a school or daycare—a requirement that had meant at least 10 of Ontario’s 17 sites faced closure by March 31. But most of those targeted sites will still shut down.
Last-Ditch Court Bid Aims to Block Ontario Consumption Sites Shutdown

1 month ago | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

People who use drugs and a service provider are fighting legislation enacted by the Ontario provincial government which, if implemented, would shut down at least 10 supervised consumption sites by March 31. Two participants at supervised consumption sites (SCS), Katharine Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues, along with SCS operator the Neighbourhood Group Community Services, have applied with the Ontario Superior Court for an interim injunction to stop the new law taking effect.
Canada Lets Trump’s Trade War Fuel Its Own Drug War

1 month ago | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

The Canadian government has continued to step up its resourcing of border enforcement in response to tariff-related demands by United States President Donald Trump, despite calling his claims of fentanyl pouring over the border “bogus.”On March 4, Trump turned a US-Canada trade war from rhetoric into reality, imposing 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports. Since then, he has exempted certain goods, threatened that tariffs could increase further and prompted reprisals.
BC Government’s Crackdown on Safe Supply Spreads Fear

2 months ago | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

British Columbia’s provincial government has ended its take-home safe supply program for new participants, with an intention to transition existing patients to witnessed ingestion too. The program provides pharmaceutical drugs, mostly opioids, to protect people who use drugs from the acute risks of the adulterated street supply.
Police “Support” for Harm Reduction in Canada Soon Evaporated

2 months ago | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

Amid a policy shift away from harm reduction, senior police officials in Canada have been signalling their approval, though some of them ostensibly supported harm reduction and drug decriminalization before. Experts say not only are the police wrong to suggest that decriminalization or harm reduction don’t work, but that police actions have themselves undermined such initiatives.
Canada's Supreme Court to Rule On Scope of Good Samaritan OD Law

Jan 14, 2025 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

In September 2020, a truck pulled over in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to report an overdose. Cheryl Delorme had lost consciousness and stopped breathing, and those in the truck with her began performing CPR and called 911. By the time Constable Heidi Jo Marshall of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived on the scene, an ambulance had already attended and was able to stabilize Delorme, who had indeed overdosed.
DULF Unveils Defense Strategy for Compassion-Club Criminal Charges

Oct 17, 2024 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in Vancouver has outlined its intended defense to criminal charges against two of its founders for distributing tested heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. It’s framing the charges, against a compassion club designed to save lives, as unconstitutional.
Why Alberta’s OD Figures Don’t Make a Case Against Harm Reduction

Sep 27, 2024 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

Canadian opponents of harm reduction have been pointing to recent data from Alberta as proof the province’s treatment-based approach to drug policy is successful. There are good reasons to believe these conclusions are not only premature, but deeply flawed. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, made a surprise onstage appearance at a Recovery Day street festival in British Columbia on September 7.
BC Government’s Involuntary Drug Treatment Expansion Plan Condemned

Sep 19, 2024 | filtermag.org | Dustin Godfrey

The British Columbia government is moving towards a regime of involuntary treatment for people who use drugs who have both “severe” mental illness and head injuries from overdoses. The program’s first beds in non-criminal cases are slated to open in a local jail.