CSSDP Calgary

📣 UPCOMING EVENT 📣
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP) Calgary is hosting a Harm Reduction, Safer Substance Use, and Drug Policy Research Showcase!!

Come join us and learn about the amazing harm reduction, substance use, and drug policy research going on at the University of Calgary. Also, hear from The Alberta Alliance Who Educates and Advocates Responsibly about their community outreach and drug testing pilot program!

May 19th from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM at Health Sciences Centre on Foothills Campus (zoom info to follow for hybrid event)

Sign up here or use the QR code on the poster: https://forms.gle/43QcbTo1db5hb7AS9

Effective drug policies and harm reduction programs require leadership and meaningful collaboration with true experts - people who use drugs 👇

As People Who Use Drugs, We Are the Safer Supply Experts—Not Physicians Safer supply saves lives. It’s that simple. People who use and sell drugs have long known this, and academic research ...

Opinion: Why Alberta's police chiefs are misguided on drug decriminalization Every day in Canada, 19 families lose a loved one to opioid poisoning. More people die this way than in motor vehicle accidents or from heart attacks. Across…

"For the longest time, we said, 'Hey, learn CPR, learn first aid, maybe you'll save a life,'" said Jones. "Well, now — carry a naloxone kit, maybe you'll save a life."

Why more young Albertans are packing naloxone kits to save peers at bars and parties | CBC News When Jordan Knapp noticed a friend sitting pale, silent and sweaty on a couch at a Calgary house party, she instantly recognized an opiod overdose and used a naloxone kit to save him. She's far from the only young Albertan to carry the kits everywhere these days.