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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈

Legalize THC and classic psychedelics already! These substances have potential to help people heal:

- THC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahyd
- LSD: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD
- Psilocybin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocyb

Why keep these therapeutic tools hidden? Research shows promise for mental health treatment.

Screw the system! Boost if you're ready for change!

Image of mushrooms with the text 'LEGALIZE MAGIC' overlaid.
#LegalizePsychedelics#MentalHealthTreatment#PsychedelicTherapy
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Ms. Que Banh

At least a third of the publicly funded #AddictionTreatment beds #BCgovernment claims are available for drug users across #BritishColumbia do not actually offer treatment, the #IJF has learned.

“B.C. now has 3,645 publicly funded substance-use treatment beds, including 659 beds opened since 2017 with more to come,” the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions announced in an Aug. 27 press release.

But a breakdown of the available types of adult and youth treatment options provided by the ministry shows that its tally includes 1,232 low-barrier housing beds, accounting for about 34 per cent of the total.

#Addictions treatment is not directly provided in low-barrier housing in B.C., but is part of “a full continuum of support services,” the ministry said in an email to the IJF. This type of facility simply makes shelter available to people who use drugs, without requiring them to abstain or be in treatment.

The news comes as both the #BCConservatives and the #BCNDP government are touting #involuntary addiction care as a solution to the province’s ongoing #ToxicDrugCrisis.

That #political focus is deeply frustrating for Correne Antrobus of #MomsStopTheHarm, an advocacy group led by families affected by tainted illegal drugs.

theijf.org/bc-publicly-funded-

Investigative Journalism Foundation · One third of B.C.’s ‘publicly funded substance-use treatment beds’ don’t provide any treatmentBy Bethany Lindsay
#BCpoli#Medical#PublicHealth
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Knowable Magazine

Opioid use among youth is on the rise, as are overdose deaths. But a few trailblazing pediatricians are working to educate their colleagues so that more adolescents receive the medications that are recommended by professional groups as the first line of treatment. knowablemagazine.org/content/a

Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsMedications for opioid use disorder — MOUD — and adolescentsTreatment with drugs such as buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone is deemed the gold standard for youth with opioid addictions. Why isn’t it used more often?
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