{"id":114345,"date":"2022-09-06T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=114345"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:32:29","slug":"nelson-harm-reduction-advocate-determined-to-start-a-compassion-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nelson-harm-reduction-advocate-determined-to-start-a-compassion-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson harm reduction advocate determined to start a compassion club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><strong>A local harm reduction advocate says handing out illegal street drugs to known users was an act of compassion as much as it was a statement in support of a safe supply of drugs, amid soaring overdose and poisoning deaths in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dylan Griffith, founder of Kootenay Insurrection for Safe Supply, told KCR News that his organization received six grams of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin from the Vancouver-based Drug User Liberation Front (DULF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThey were bought off the dark web from criminal networks,\u201d Griffith told KCR during a vigil for victims of the toxic drug crisis earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't want to do that, but there is no safe supply in B.C, and the government is leaving us no choice.\"<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Listen to an interview with Dylan Griffith here:<\/b><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-114345-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dylan-Griffith-interview.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dylan-Griffith-interview.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dylan-Griffith-interview.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"p2\">14 other community organizations in the province received a similar package for distribution to users.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The next step, according to Griffith, is to establish a so-called Compassion Club in the Kootenays and to continue distributing a tested supply of drugs to users. In late July, Health Canada rejected an application from DULF to establish a similar concept in Vancouver. DULF has said it will appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Listen to a report from the overdose vigil from KCR News reporter John Rune:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local harm reduction advocate says handing out illegal street drugs to known users was an act of compassion as much as it was a statement in support of a safe supply of drugs, amid soaring overdose and poisoning deaths in the area. Dylan Griffith, founder of Kootenay Insurrection for Safe Supply, told KCR News&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":114351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,225],"tags":[16754,680,18419,18420,18418,2625,18421],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114552,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114345\/revisions\/114552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114345"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=114345"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=114345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}