NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social Healthcare professionals against the Compassionate Intervention Act (Bill 53) in Alberta. Committed to providing education, support, and resources so we can better care for patients, each other, and community.
Dr. Shazma Mithani, MD, FRCPC @drshazmamithani.bsky.social Inner city ER Doc | Mom | Advocate | Speaker |
Find me on all platforms @drshazmamithani
*Posts are not medical advice
The Maple @readthemaple.com Canadian news & opinion that confronts the status quo. 100% reader-funded & independent.
Edited by @alex.readthemaple.com & @davide.readthemaple.com
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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social The PWUD Community-Controlled Peak Organisation that represents our network of Australian peer-based harm reduction & peer-led Drug User Organisations (DUOs) and supporting Asia-Pacific programs. #PeerPower
www.aivl.org.au
Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social Current project: telling the story of the rise and fall of Boston’s containment zone for street drugs and homelessness, 2014-24. Day job: doctor caring for people who are homeless or formerly homeless.
https://www.joewrightmd.com
SIGNAL: joewright.72
@kirtun.bsky.social @kirtun.bsky.social
National Survivors Union @national-nsu.bsky.social The United States national drug users union
Mat Southwell @matsouthwell.bsky.social Technical advisor, drug user advocate and human rights activist working on harm reduction, drug treatment and community mobilisation with people who use drugs.
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Bill McColl @caphilldcne.bsky.social Harm Reduction, HIV and Public Health is my thing. I ride the bus, watch the Caps, Nats and Wolverines, play bocce, read and hike. DC is 🏡
Release: Drugs, The Law & Your Rights @releasedrugs.bsky.social UK's centre of expertise on drugs and drug law. Global reports on decrim and racist policing. Campaigning for rights of people who use drugs.
Need advice? Contact 020 7324 2989/ ask@release.org.uk
Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social Medical anthropologist. Rig slinger. Drug/overdose research. Harm reduction collaborator. 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 Opinions my own.
Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй.
The Loop @theloopuk.bsky.social Award winning UK drug checking charity (#1200533) founded in 2012
TEDI member
‘Top 20 public health achievement of the C21st’ (as voted by RSPH)
We promote harm reduction, health & wellbeing through drug checking, testing, research, training & information.
Magdalena Harris @pwud-pride.bsky.social Harm reduction & home baking
Prof of Inclusion Health Sociology, LSHTM
Current projects:
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/ihost
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/sipp
History: http://youtu.be/0H51Nk-I7PA
Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱
Judith Aldridge @judithaldridge.bsky.social Drug use, drug markets, drug policy. Internet-facilitated drug supply. Criminology @University of Manchester
David Pugliese @davidpugliese.bsky.social Journalist since 1982. Spencer Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom.
Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj) @sajamersa.bsky.social Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj) disseminates addiction-related original research, policy positions, & commentary. Peer reviewed. Dynamic. Owned by @AMERSA, Inc. https://amersa.org/about-the-journal/ Tweets&ReTweets are our own. EiC= @adamjgordon
Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify.
Substack - tristansnell.com
Amarjeet Sohi @amarjeetsohiyeg.bsky.social Former Mayor of Edmonton, Member of Parliament, the Federal Minister of Infrastructure & Communities and Natural Resources
Ashley Salvador @ashleysalvador.bsky.social Edmonton City Councillor running for re-election in #WardMétis. #YEG Urban Planner, Sustainability & Sociologist. Founder. Cities, climate action, health, inclusion. She/her #yegcc
www.ashleysalvador.com/recentlinks
Aaron Paquette 🇨🇦 @apaquette.bsky.social Award winning Author, Artist, & Speaker, Nehiyaw, ᐅᑭᒪᐤ ᑭᐦᐄᐤ, business innovator, Métis, & Edmonton City Councillor for Ward Dene. Official handle: @aaronpaquette.bsky.social
Beth K @bethklingenberg.bsky.social Community Health Nurse with a thing for Harm Reduction. Living on stolen Treaty 6 land. All views are my own.
Barrie Encampment Support Network @barrieesn.bsky.social The Barrie Encampment Support Network is mutual aid community comprised of people with diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. We operate on a mutual aid model of neighbours caring for neighbours. We are a community of love!
#Homelessness #HarmReduction
Niamh Eastwood @niamhrelease.bsky.social Drug policy reform, radical harm reduction (it’s a movement not an intervention) ❤️ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Kathryn Dong @kathryndong.bsky.social MD, MSc, FRCPC, DRCPSC. Addiction Medicine / Population Health. Views and opinions are my own. She/Her.
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
Always check the latest posts for updated advice/information.
We reserve the right to remove misinformation, spam, and hate speech under our posts.
Kathleen Cochran @momsforallpaths.bsky.social We are moms who love our children who use drugs problematically- #HarmReduction- #healthbaseddrugpolicies- #endoverdose- #endprohibition
StoptheDrugWar.org @stopthedrugwar.org
Substance Use Health Network (SUHN - formerly NSSCoP) @nsscop-suhn.bsky.social An interdisciplinary community of people from across Canada/Turtle Island who are working to increase access to a continuum of care options for people who use substances. www.substanceusehealth.ca
Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition @bmorehrc.bsky.social BHRC mobilizes community members for the health, dignity, and safety of people targeted by the racist war on drugs and anti-sex worker policies.
linktr.ee/bmorehrc
Get Your Drugs Tested @gydt.bsky.social Free street-drug analysis service in Vancouver, Canada.
Sponsored by The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary and The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary.
Founded 2019 by @DanaLarsen
Over 80,000 test results online at GetYourDrugsTested.com
Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social Associate Professor (Medicine/Public Health/Anthro) at Yale | opinions own
The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) @cduhr.bsky.social The Center for Drug Use & HIV Research is dedicated to increasing the understanding of the drug use-HIV epidemic, particularly among high-risk people -NIDA P30DA011041.
Exchange Supplies @reducingharm.bsky.social Andrew Preston, founder of Exchange Supplies a social enterprise working to reduce drug related harm, employ people who use drugs, and reform drug laws.
Carrie Mae Garber 🇨🇦 She/Her @medeek68.bsky.social Settler on Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc land. Harm Reduction, Prescribed Safer Alternatives & Vaccine advocate. Nurse. Housing First. 2SLGBTQIA+ ally. 🎵Choir geek. Owned by 1 puppy & 3 cats (will post pics). Posts solely my own
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
Emily Bodechon @ebodec.bsky.social Laboratory Scientist | Moms Stop the Harm | Harm Reduction Advocate | Flying Ninja
Workers for Ethical Substance Use Policy @wesup.bsky.social No Drug War On The Shop Floor
wesup.org
xʷməθkʷəýəm, Skwxwú7mesh & Səlilwətaɬ territories.
@katieellen.bsky.social @katieellen.bsky.social Neurodivergent white settler living in Mi'kma'ki. IDU, harm reduction proponent seeking drug policy reform. Researcher, consultant and advocate. BOD of Moms Stop The Harm.
Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social Vancouver, B.C. journalist covering politics and housing for TheTyee.ca
Instagram and TikTok: @jenstdenis
Email: jstdenis at thetyee dot ca
Gillian Shorter PhD @gwshorter.bsky.social Reader in Psychology @QUBelfast
President @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social
Alcohol/other drugs, #HarmReduction, drug consumption rooms, OPCs, SCS #AddictionSci
Loves: dogs, dance, run, sea, joy
Views own (she/her) bi #BeMoreLyra
In my own time and space
Marion B. @i-love-science.bsky.social *Dog Mom *Blue Jays Fan *Canadian First, Albertan second *My Body My Choice
#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead
#NeverVoteConservative
#ABResistance
Any Positive Change CA SSP @anypositivechange.bsky.social We are a non-profit California Authorized Syringe Service Program.
Radical love and empowerment for People Who Use Drugs. Come visit us on Facebook also at https://www.facebook.com/AnyPositiveChangeLakeCo?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Carolyn Brost Strom @carolynbroststrom.bsky.social 🇨🇦Prairie born, Registered Nurse & TB Nurse Clinician. #Prevention #Advocacy #SkPoli
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
2025 #Sanctum36HourChallenge Alum
https://youtu.be/V42P2w0J9s0?si=qa5JXjEQDdDpoUhD
Kelly Knight @kellyrayknight.bsky.social Medical Anthropologist @ University of California - San Francisco
Associate Director, Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative
Opioid Industry Document Archive
addicted.pregnant.poor
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Brittlestar @brittlestar.com Social Media Darling. International Bestselling Author. Occasionally funny. Brittlestar.com
Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com Activist, organizer, photographer. Environmental justice advocate + drug policy reformer. Vegan. Views mine. 🏳️🌈
📍Manaháhtaan
MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social Executive Director of Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project, DrPH student. Focused on harm reduction and COVID. She/her.
Rebecca Penn @rebeccapenn.bsky.social Harm reduction, public health, puppies, cats, opossums… an uninvited settler in Mi’kma’ki; MSTH, NSSCoP, views my own.
Trevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social Professor of Economics, University of Calgary | Alum U of T & SFU | Inflation, carbon taxes, equalization, internal trade, R, and more! | 💻 📊 📝 🍻
Andrew Leach @aleach.ca Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Alberta. Interested in climate change, constitutional law, and energy infrastructure. Find me here or on the web at aleach.ca.
eli solomon @elisolomon97.bsky.social med student, harm reductionist
Simon @simbris.bsky.social Social Justice | Harm Reduction | OPC Worker | 🏳️🌈 | Mental Health | Exhausted Nurse | Random Topics | #AusPol | Coffee enthusiast
📍Ballarat | Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung lands
Mark Gilman @markgilman2.bsky.social Harm Reduction: Research, Policy & Practice since 1981. From the Deeply Vale Free Festival to today. The war on drugs is over...drugs have won.
Christina Bailey @christinabailey.bsky.social Boston Nurse for the Homeless | Drug User Health | Street Med | HIV/AIDS Care | Harm Reductionist
dave lucas @davidewlucas.bsky.social Health & Housing Justice • Landback • Shihtzu propagandist • @NBA psychoanalyst • NYC/TO/WPG
Quinn Leffingwell, MPH @quinnleffingwell.bsky.social Tulsa, OK. Interested in substance use, maternal and child health, and harm reduction. He/him. Chelsea FC and OKC Thunder.
Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports @drugalcreports.bsky.social Welcome to DAD Reports, a companion journal to Drug and Alcohol Dependence. An alternative home for sound addiction science. Publisher Elsevier and EIC @terifranklin.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/drugalcreports
Monica Barratt @monicabarratt.bsky.social Drugs, harm reduction, humane drug policies, drug checking, drug markets, social equity. Academic + advocate. Curtin, Loop, Bluelight.
Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social Community-led effort to action solutions to Waterloo Region's drug poisoning tragedy. It's a crisis, not a spectator sport! Unfunded. Volunteer. Non-partisan. Honest. Find us on Insta at: @wrdrugactionteam
World Health Systems Facts @healthsystemsfacts.bsky.social World Health Systems Facts is a project of the Real Reporting Foundation. We provide reliable statistics and other data from authoritative sources regarding health systems and policies in the US and sixteen other nations.
https://healthsystemsfacts.org/
Dana Larsen @danalarsen.bsky.social Founder of The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary & Get Your Drugs Tested (world's busiest free drug analysis service.) I gave away 10 million cannabis seeds.
danalarsen.com
getyourdrugstested.com
potheadbooks.com
youtube.com/@dankarson
D.M.Trott [Author: The Drug Users Bible] @dmtrott.bsky.social This is the official BlueSky account of DM Trott, the author of The Drug Users Bible. Ignorance kills education saves lives.
Information: www.DrugUsersBible.com
Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social He/him. Public policy researcher/analyst, journalist.
Editor, DrugPolicyFacts.org and HealthSystemsFacts.org.
Producer/Host, Free Culture Radio
https://kboo.fm/program/free-culture-radio
and Century of Lies
https://drugtruth.net/century-of-lies
Drug Policy Facts @drugpolicyfacts.bsky.social Drug Policy Facts is a project of the Real Reporting Foundation. We provide excerpts of current information and statistics with complete citations and links to the source materials.
https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/
Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social Trauma‑informed journalist, documentary storyteller,writer, artist & advocate. Writing and witnessing from systems of failure, grief & lived experience. #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #4Ryan https://substack.com/@christinenayler nationalapology.ca
Kat @donnelkh.bsky.social RN/FNP, healthcare for the homeless, St. Paul, http://mncare.org, healthcare is a human right https://vimeo.com/392038940
my words are my own. Photos w/consent.
Claire O’Gorman @claire-o.bsky.social nursing, health equity, systems change. settler on Blackfoot lands. she/her.
Chyrell Bellamy @drchybellamy.bsky.social healing/living with MH/SUD! Lived Experience! Peer Support! Health For All! Community Led Research! CBPR/ Recovery and Harm Reduction. Alum Rutgers & UMICH & Yale/ Professor Yale Psychiatry; YCCI associate director
@yogarunwork.bsky.social @yogarunwork.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Psychiatry, UCalgary, personal account
Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social Leader of Alberta’s NDP.
You deserve better. We're ready.
Join us: albertandp.ca/ready
Amy O'Donnell @profamyodonnell.bsky.social Professor of Applied Health & Social Care Research | Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK | Research interests: Substance use; Mental Health; MLTC; Complex Needs | Mother of 2 giant adults (1 w/AuHD + anxiety) & 3 smaller cats.
Azra Panjwani @azrapanjwani.bsky.social MSc student in public health at UAlberta. Interested in harm reduction, health equity, substance use, and mental health. lots of cat content!!!! she/her
https://linktr.ee/cssdpedmonton
Mike @mcrocklin.bsky.social "The heat came by and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day"
Harm Reduction, Rights, music, dogs, family...just another Mike
@kyspeak.bsky.social @kyspeak.bsky.social Small city Albertan. Former PO. Psych Degree. Gardener. Music Lover. Music/Art/Lit lover.
michael parkinson @88xtc.bsky.social Human systems engagement, design, and policy planning. Upstream prevention pro. Drug strategy specialist. Population health, justice, socio-economics, (in)equity. Struggling musician, failed pro hockey player. Waterloo region, Ontario, Canada
Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com Nomad & Print Artist since 1998: Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling. Traveling along my German grandmother’s roots. Mover: Strong voice against Trumpism. Linktree: linktr.ee/Strandjunker
Rakhi Pancholi @pancholirakhi.bsky.social Mother, partner, lawyer, and proud Albertan. Deputy Leader of the Alberta NDP. MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud. Tell your dog I said hi!
Richard Elliott @relliotthhr.bsky.social Health & human rights. Lawyer, independent consultant, former ED @HIVlegal. HIV, harm reduction & drug policy, COVID, 2SLGBTQ+, access to meds, SRHR, other health & human rights issues, #cdnpoli. Plus fantasy & SF. Halifax. #CanadaSky (he/him)😷 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Alex F. @multiphasic.bsky.social Commercial determinants of health. Harm reduction. Baseball. Crabs. Punk rock.
He/him. Good-bad (not evil).
ashlee, mph @avs.bsky.social ABD in public health (pregnancy and work, work-family policies) that was a former primatologist and union steward (she/her/hers)
Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social I helped legalize cannabis in Canada and won some precedent setting medical cannabis cases. Now I practice law in British Columbia and run a cannabis company called Great Gardener Farms. Dad and husband. Deadhead. Lions fan. He/him.
Duncan Dwyer @duncandwyer.bsky.social Harm Reduction Public Health Educator. Universal bodily autonomy advocate. Follower of science. Intolerably disruptive believer in kindness, also in mischief. Pursuing beauty to its lair.
REMINDER: There is no moral imperative to tolerate the intolerant.
Kootenay Insurrection for Safe Supply @kootenaysafesupply.bsky.social Posts by Dylan Griffith on #harmreduction #safesupply#housing #defundingcops #revolutionarylove & #raccoons
4B Harm Reduction Society @4bharmredux.bsky.social
Nina C. Christie | PhD, MPH @ninachristie.bsky.social AAAS Congressional Fellow
I study substance use, harm reduction, social connections, and drug policy
PhD & MPH from University of Southern California
(she/her/hers)
Website: www.ninacchristie.com
Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social Film-maker & Green Councillor for St George Central, Bristol. Interests include drug law reform, harm reduction, feminism, BLM, LGBTQPI+, climate change, nature, politics, public transport, netball and music. Not always in that order. FT single parent.
Stephen Husbands @stevehusbands.bsky.social Prof of Medicinal Chemistry, Life Sciences, Uni of Bath. Neuropharmacology, pain, illicit drugs, harm reduction. All views my own.
Erin, the Time Traveling Junkie @pukeuprainbows.bsky.social Drugs, dragons, and doodles.
Fentanyl isn’t in the water, fentanyl IS the water. Safe supply is harm reduction and harm reduction is also fentanyl. They/Them🌻
Drug Nerd @drugnerd.bsky.social Psychonaut love learning about and trying leagal psychoactive matter. Health and fitness enthusiast focused on longevity through a vegan lifestyle, smart supplementation, and consistent workouts. Into biohacking and optimizing cognition with nootropics.