The Governor's task force calls for criminalizing public drug use -- but does not include overdose prevention sites. Back in 2016, British Columbia legalized these, recognizing that people are dying rapidly from the unregulated, highly variable and toxic drug supply. www.opb.org/article/2023...

Without supervised use, including communities ready to reverse overdoses, people die. There are more overdose prevention sites now that British Columbia has legalized them, and I wrote about Overdose Prevention Society. www.streetroots.org/news/2023/11...

Kaia Sand | Canadian overdose prevention sites ‘keep people alive’

Kaia Sand launches ‘Better not Backward’ column series exploring next steps two years into Measure 110 with a visit to the Overdose Prevention Society