April 14 marks ten years since British Columbia (B.C.) declared a public health emergency in response to the toxic drug crisis. Ten years later, we are still losing our loved ones at a devastating and horrific rate.

Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH) condemns the Government of Ontario’s decision to discontinue funding which will result in the permanent closure of supervised consumption services across the province. We are calling for this decision to be reversed immediately.

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.