Tyson Singh is a member-researcher with P.O.W.E.R. and a frontline worker. His work focuses primarily on the intersection of policing and the toxic drug supply crisis.

Scotty Archondous is a member-researcher with P.O.W.E.R and board member of VANDU. Scotty has extensive experience in researching safe supply, and has felt the devastating impacts of the toxic supply crisis first hand.

Dave Hamm is a member-researcher with P.O.W.E.R (Police Oversight with Evidence and Research), and long-time member and current vice-President of the VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users).

Join CSSDP to learn about Sensible Drug Policy in practice. We are excited to be joined by three member-researchers from P.O.W.E.R the Police Oversight with Evidence and Research group. They will speak to the context in so called Vancouver. Register at cssdp.org.

Danielle advocates fiercely for the inclusion of living experience when shaping policy and fighting for change: “nothing about us without us!”

…creator of wellness plans for front line staff, The Curbside Philosophy Project, and naloxone training facilitation. She believes in patient centered health care, the power of community care, and mutual aid over charity.

Some highlights of her activism career include: Community of Practice on Psychosis from a lived perspective with The Doctor Peter Centre, round tables with MLAs, Community of Practices on warming stations and make shift overdose prevention sites…

Danielle advocates on the Alberta Community Council on HIV, runs her own outreach collective, is a Peer Navigator, co created a psychosis tool kit to be used by front line staff, and runs warming stations all over Alberta.

Danielle English is a harm reductionist and proud disabled woman that comes with a perspective and background of lived and living experience, as well as local and grassroots activism and outreach.

Join CSSDP to learn about Sensible Drug Policy in practice. We are excited to hear from Danielle English, from Inner City Health and Wellness Program, who will speak to the context in so called Edmonton. Register at cssdp.org or the link in our bio.

Her lived experience is as a person who used unregulated drugs and as a person identified as MAD. Kara has been peer supporting people navigating their own relationship to substances for the last 15 years.

Kara Bullock (she/her) is an organizer, artist and mother living on Unceded Sinixt Territory. She is a member of Walls Down Collective, also organizing with Mutual Aid Canada and Stop the Stack YYC.

Join CSSDP to learn about Sensible Drug Policy in practice. We are excited to hear from Kara Bullok from Walls Down Collective @WallsDownAB, who will speak to the context in so called Calgary. Register at cssdp.org or the link in our bio.

He then entered a residential treatment centre in Halifax where he stayed for a year. As Cultural Safety Coordinator at Mainline Needle Exchange, Morty uses his lived experience every day, doing peer support, educational workshops, outreach, policy work, and more.

Morty struggled with substance use and homelessness in his teens living in New Brunswick. At 18, he hitchhiked to Halifax where he stayed in various men's shelters. As a result of his addiction, Morty was hospitalized for liver and heart complications for several months.

Join CSSDP to learn about Sensible Drug Policy in practice. We are excited to hear from London 'Morty' Morton from Mainline @needleexchange2, who will speak to the context in so called Halifax. Register at cssdp.org or the link in our bio.

How does drug policy across so called-Canada affect your community? And what are the sensible drug policy alternatives? This pre-AGM panel brings together voices from different regions to share real experiences, challenges, and insights, followed by an open discussion and Q&A.

The full text of the policy stance on safer supply is here: cssdp.org/about/policy-stanc… Other stances will be forthcoming on our socials and can be found on our website 2/

𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 The series on our policy stances continues. Today we affirm that "Safe Supply, Saves Lives". #drugpolicy #safersupply #safesupplysaveslives 1/

This is the third post in our series on our policy stances, which inform and guide our work and advocacy. Criminalization is not a sensible drug policy. Full text here: cssdp.org/about/policy-stanc… #drugpolicy #criminalization #depenalization #decriminalization #legalization 1/