MySafe in the News
Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
2021 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The 2021 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit was held from August 23rd – August 27th, 2021. Dr. Mark Tyndall presented on the first day.
STATEMENT FROM MYSAFE SOCIETY
MySafe is a national program providing prescribed hydromorphone tablets (dilaudid) to eligible participants as an alternative to the poisoned street supply of drugs. Their prescription is stored in a highly secure storage locker, that can be accessed once per day...
People are dying from poisoned drugs. Politicians must act to ensure safe supply
‘Many unhoused people in Toronto aren’t so much living on the street as dying on it. A record 216 homeless people died in 2021 — more than four a week.’By Star Editorial Board Mon., April 18, 2022 If there’s one thing we can learn from new data from Toronto...
Alberta’s safe-supply committee is missing an opportunity to protect people from harm
ZOE DODD, ERIS NYX, COREY RANGER AND MARK TYNDALL MARK TYNDALL CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED MARCH 11, 2022 Zoë Dodd is a community scholar with the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions and co-organizer with the Toronto Overdose...
Sydney overdose prevention site could include machine that dispenses safe supplies of opioids
Organizers hope to take part in nationally funded project that uses palm scanning to safely dispense opioids Tom Ayers · CBC News · Posted: Sep 28, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: September 28, 2021...
Opioid vending machines could be the next big thing in safe supply
The doctor who introduced Canada’s MySafe program thinks the technology may save livesColumn by Tracy Giesz-Ramsay JUNE 8, 2021 Alarge, blue screen lights up the front surface of a grey appliance standing by a brick wall. An illustration of a palm moving toward a...
They’ve saved hundreds of lives. Will B.C. provide a safe drug supply to help save theirs?
Sarah Grochowski, Vancouver Sunsgrochowski@postmedia.comDecember 12, 2021 Harm reduction workers on the front lines of Vancouver’s opioid crisis have mourned the deaths of four co-workers in the last two months, and now they are calling for an immediate increase in...
Le gouvernement du Canada appuie l’expansion d’un projet novateur d’approvisionnement plus sécuritaire pour qu’il soit offert dans quatre villes au pays
Communiqué de presse Il s’agit d’un nouveau moyen de fournir des produits pharmaceutiques comme solution de rechange aux drogues illégales toxiques pendant la pandémie et par la suite 2 mars 2021 | Dartmouth (Nouvelle‑Écosse) | Santé Canada La crise des...
Government of Canada supports expansion of innovative safer supply project to operate in four cities across Canada
News release Project to provide new way of delivering pharmaceutical alternative to toxic illegal drug supply during the pandemic and beyond March 2, 2021 | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia | Health Canada The overdose crisis continues to affect communities and families across...
$3.5M in funding for ‘vending machines’ that dispense safer drugs to prevent ODs
The doctor leading London's safer drug supply program says a new machine that dispenses hydromorphone tablets to those with prescriptions for the opioid could help people manage and better access their supply. Megan Stacey, March 9, 2021 London...
Doctor on London’s frontlines weighs in on opioid dispensing machine
The doctor leading London's safer drug supply program says a new machine that dispenses hydromorphone tablets to those with prescriptions for the opioid could help people manage and better access their supply. Megan Stacey, March 9, 2021 London...