Urgent Action Needed: Stop the Rollback of Harm Reduction Services!

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.

Key issues include:

• Rising criminalization: Provinces like British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan are expanding enforcement powers, even as research shows harm reduction saves lives.

• Safer supply programs being cut: Federal funding for safer supply pilots has expired, and programs in Ontario and BC face tighter restrictions or outright closures.

• Involuntary treatment expansion: Provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing for more coercive treatment, despite limited evidence of its effectiveness.

• Supervised consumption services closing: Ontario and Alberta are limiting or closing essential overdose prevention sites, despite clear benefits.

These harmful policies are being enacted while the drug toxicity crisis worsens and new substances like medetomidine are making the unregulated supply even deadlier.

Moms Stop the Harm stands firm in its commitment to people who use drugs and their families. People deserve care, respect, and evidence-based support – not punishment or stigma.

Read Our Statement

What YOU Can Do

We need your help to stop these dangerous policies. Contact your Members of Parliament (MPs) and provincial representatives (MLAs, MPPs) to demand action! Urge them to:

• Halt the dismantling of harm reduction services

• Reinvest in evidence-based approaches like safer supply and supervised consumption

• Collaborate with communities and frontline workers to strengthen health-based responses, not punishment

You can use our template in the above linked statement to contact decision-makers and amplify your voice in advocating for life-saving policies.

Together, we can ensure that lives are saved, not lost. We have to act NOW.