DRUG USERS LIBERATION FRONT OF BC

Please join Moms Stop the Harm as we host a webinar with guest speaker, Jeremy Kalicum, an addictions researcher and former drug checker with the B.C. Centre on Substance Use. Jeremy leads the Drug Users Liberation Front of BC (DULF).

DULF is an organization which works to ensure a future in which a safe supply of currently illicit and dangerous substances are made available to people who need them.

DULF formed in response to the record high rates of overdose deaths due to a poisoned drug supply. DULF partners with advocacy groups such as Vancouver Network of Drug Users (VANDU), Pivot Legal Society, Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH), and others.

Jeremy will provide an overview of DULF, a peer led model of support, often referred to as compassion clubs or co-ops, that would help get a safe supply of drugs to individuals at high risk of overdose.

“The “safe supply” movement seeks to counter this deadly progression by ensuring the integrity of the dosages that users have been conditioned to crave while providing care that keeps them alive and could wean them off drugs. “It’s not who we are to stand passively by,” says Kalicum. “We’re gonna do something, and we’re willing to take on personal risks to do that. But we can look at ourselves in the mirror and know that we’re doing what’s right.” (Time Magazine, Paul Moakley)

The BC Centre on Substance use recommended that the Compassion Club model of support be implemented in 2019 and many advocates including MSTH are now pushing for this life saving model of support as one strong pathway to stop the deaths.

Webinar Date: Monday, November 22, 2021

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Registration: Please click the button below to register for this free virtual presentation.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SAFE SUPPLY

Corey Ranger is the Clinical Nurse Lead for AIDS Vancouver Island and SOLID's safe supply project, the Victoria SAFER Initiative. He is also the President of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association and a board member for the HIV Legal Network. Corey is passionate about pragmatic public policy and ending the racist, colonial War on Drugs in the lands commonly referred to as Canada.

Corey Ranger will be presenting information on the fundamentals of safe supply, its roots in harm reduction and the liberation of people who use drugs, and the dire need to develop de-medicalized and lower barrier models for the provision of a safe supply. Corey will finish the presentation by discussing the Victoria SAFER Initiative, a flexible, harm reduction model for safe supply.

Moms Stop the Harm along with researchers, health care professionals, policy makers and politicians, continues to advocate that a “safe supply” of drugs is urgently needed to address the toxic illicit drug supply. Providing a legal and regulated supply of drugs has the potential to support people who use drugs to stay alive and to live safe and healthy lives.

Please join Corey Ranger as he explains what “safe supply” means, and shares information about the Safer Initiative in Victoria BC.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Date: Thursday, November 25, 2021

Time: 5 pm - 7pm MDT time (please note to click on time zone to update to the correct time for your area when you register)

Cost: free

*Please click on the registration button below to receive confirmation of your attendance to this zoom format event.