Across Canada, families are grieving preventable deaths caused by a toxic, unpredictable, unregulated drug supply. At the same time, access to voluntary, evidence-based treatment and mental health care remains inconsistent and often unavailable.

In response, some governments are proposing expanded involuntary drug treatment. Read on to see MSTH’s stance.

Across Canada, we are witnessing a disturbing trend of retreating from evidence-based health solutions in favour of criminalization, coercion, and the dismantling of proven harm reduction services. This is happening at a time when the toxic drug crisis is escalating, and people continue to die due to a dangerous, unpredictable drug supply

Moms Stop the Harm, the HIV Legal Network, and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition call on Health Canada to immediately release and implement the recommendations of its own Safer Supply Expert Review - expert guidance that was developed, then withheld from the public and never acted upon.

You may be wondering where Canada’s federal political parties stand when it comes to addressing the overdose and toxic drug crisis. We have some answers.

Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH) has reached out to all federal party leaders with seats in the House of Commons, urging them to respond to critical questions about the overdose and toxic drug crisis.