The pictured tweet is in reply to a post by Mike Ellis (AB Min. of Mental Health & Addictions) about the cancellation of a planned SCS in Calgary & I am so fucking tired of bad faith assholes like @Twolfrecovery & @sheldonbailey promulgating this incredibly damaging idea (1/x) that harm reduction & recovery are mutually exclusive, which they do in order to discredit harm reduction (distorted facts & outright lies) & thereby promote their grift - aka abstinence-based recovery - as the one magic solution to addiction, homelessness & the mass (2/x)

I’m currently re-reading @sarahschulman3’s brilliant & beautiful book-length essay on the aftermath & consequences of the American AIDS crisis, The Gentrification of the Mind, and I’m struck by her identification of those who were hit hardest by AIDS as a ‘despised class 1/x of people who were easy to either vilify or ignore. Drug users were members of that despised class, and our government’s slow & ineffective response to the toxic drug crisis shows us how little has changed in 50 years. Drug users are still a despised class of people 2/

Daphne Bramham’s recent “opinion” piece on the need for a national debate on safe supply is further proof that op-ed pages are where truth, ethics & all other journalistic standards go to die. She doesn’t even express an opinion so much as scatter various lies, omissions & (1/33) ad hominem dog whistles in such a way as to give the impression of a coherent argument where none exists. Let’s dig in:
1. I’m going to jump ahead to THE BIG LIE. DB doesn’t even get the date right, never mind other basic facts in this almost entirely FALSE paragraph. (2/33)