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🍉 Nurse Ranger 💊 Profile picture
@CoreyRanger
Oct 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
New face, same murderous policy.

As @ABDanielleSmith shuffles the cabinet and dispenses her favours, let’s take a quick look at the storied history of being a #UCP “Minister of Mental Health and Addictions”.

@NACMilliken is your next prohibition peddler for #ABLeg.

#abpoli
First up is @jasonluan88.

Jason came out strong with his tin foil hat and big pharma conspiracies.

He immediately displayed his incompetence with this gem below. Image
Then one time Jason suggested naloxone, the life saving antidote to opioid poisonings, was enabling opioid use. Image
But he served his purpose like a good little drug war soldier.

#Alberta initiated its dismantling of #HarmReduction, using disinformation tactics like the SCS Review Report as rationale for their malice. Image
Then we had @MikeEllisUCP.

Former cop-pro-cop Mike Ellis took the ball from Luan and further highlighted why cops should never be consulted on issues caused by cops. ImageImage
What’s important as Premier Smith announces a cabinet shuffle, is that we need to stop being outraged by individuals within the #UCP.

They’re just warm bodies with marching orders to disparage and destroy #HarmReduction.

Their policy is social murder.

theprogressreport.ca/the_alberta_mo…
The real source, Marshall Smith, architect of the ‘#alberta mode for addiction’, is out of your reach. Read this by @JeremyAppel1025.

Don’t be distracted by @NACMilliken, that’s why he’s here.

The problem is the party and the politics.

#ABLeg

theprogressreport.ca/architect_of_a…

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Oct 31
I’ve been reviewing the @bccoroners most recent report on unregulated drug poisoning deaths.

When I filtered expedited toxicology to only include 2024 results, I was shocked.

This is a mass poisoning situation. A crisis that can only be solved with legal regulation.

#bcpoli Substances detected in expedited toxicology among unregulated drug deaths.
This is not an opioid crisis or a fentanyl emergency—this most recent update shows four different benzodiazepine analogues being regularly detected in toxicology. Bromazolam alone is being found in 39% of unregulated drug deaths.
Couple this with variable concentrations of fentanyl + fentanyl analogues and we have a toxic mix with no quality control or predictability.

Benzodiazepines + opioids produce a synergism, profoundly increasing sedation and respiratory depression.
Read 8 tweets
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Sep 16
A desperate campaign promise from a leader feeling the ground shrink beneath his feet.

A promise lacking proof. A callous approach touted as dignified.

Involuntary care won’t keep us safe. This new idea is an old failed idea.

🧵

#bcpoli #cdnpoli

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
We’re going to cover a lot of ground in this 🧵 about involuntary care.

First, let’s acknowledge that today’s announcement was the opposite of novel or innovative.

Involuntary care has been implemented in many iterations and has shown to do more harm than good.
The concept of involuntary care, or forced treatment, is often flouted as compassionate. Coupled with weaponizing “public safety” language, people who use drugs are framed as incapable of making their own decisions and as dangers to the community at large.
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Aug 31
Driving home from #IOAD2024 event in #PortAlberni today and noticed someone slumped against a building with another person standing over them looking anxious.

I decided to pull over and check things out.

🧵

#bcpoli
When I arrived on scene I saw the person on the ground was motionless and the other person was calling 911.

I introduced myself and let her know I was a nurse, asked her if I could take over.

“Yes” she said nervously.
As I assessed, I explained to the bystander what I would be doing.

S - stands for stimulate
A - stands for airway
V - stands for ventilation
E - stands for evaluation

M - stands for medication (naloxone)
E - stands for evaluation
Read 11 tweets
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Feb 1
Have you read this review of #SafeSupply from PHO Dr Bonnie Henry yet?

Here’s a 🧵 of my key takeaways.

#Bcpoli A review of prescribed safer supply programs across British Columbia: recommendations for future actions
Yes, the biggest takeaway is that prescribed safer supply is here to stay. Or at least that it should be.

And we are not going to call it that anymore. Dr. Henry has recommended the term now is “prescribed alternatives”
There’s a lot of unpack in this review but we now have the Provincial Health Officer and @bccoroners aligned on safe sup—prescribed alternatives.

✅it saves lives
✅it reduces harms
✅it improves life physical + mental health
✅we need improved access

www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/bir…
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Jan 11
📣NEW📣

Very important evaluation for #SafeSupply in BC

Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance opioid and stimulant dispensation on mortality and acute care visits during dual public health emergencies: retrospective cohort study



#bcpolibmj.com/content/384/bm…
“This study found that RMG opioid dispensations were associated with a reduced likelihood of all cause and overdose related mortality among people with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder.”

This is a massive study of almost 12,000 people. Graphical depiction of the protection provided by at least one day of RMG dispensation. One graph shows reduction in all cause mortality and the other graph shows reduction in overdose mortality related to access to RMG.
“The protective effect of RMG opioid dispensations on mortality is congruent with findings from an evaluation of a prescribed opioid safer supply programme in Ontario in which mortality was rare among participants receiving medications”

cmaj.ca/content/194/36…
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Apr 17, 2023
Did you know?

1️⃣BC’s #SafeSupply is accessible to around 4,535 people

2️⃣BC has around 101,000 people who would qualify for an ‘opioid use disorder’ diagnosis

3️⃣That’s an accessibility rate of <5%

4️⃣It’s year 7 of this public health emergency

Source: news.gov.bc.ca/factsheets/esc… A sweet graphic Corey made ...
That 101,000 doesn’t even include people who use episodically, recreationally, or first time users

Which makes that <5% estimate GENEROUS, at best

Meanwhile, the carnage worsens and the drug supply volatility kills our loved ones

#SafeSupply now

#bcpoli From January 1st to Decembe...
We act like BC has a viable and accessible #SafeSupply, but we don’t

The cons will say the streets are flooded with safe supply, but it isn’t

The BC Gov will say they are different from the callous Alberta government, but they aren’t

Alberta Model™️=BC Model™️ Freddy from scooby doo unma...
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