{"id":200744,"date":"2023-12-06T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=200744"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:27:51","slug":"redun-continues-to-advocate-for-safe-inhalation-site-in-nelson-amid-drug-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/redun-continues-to-advocate-for-safe-inhalation-site-in-nelson-amid-drug-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"REDUN continues to advocate for safe inhalation site in Nelson amid drug crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/ankors.bc.ca\/redun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rural Empowered Drug Users Network<\/a> (REDUN) emphasized the need for a safe inhalation site in Nelson at the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drugpolicy.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Drug Policy Coalition<\/a> webinar yesterday on the drug crisis in the Kootenays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bridging Community Connections in Nelson: Human Rights and Harm Reduction<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was done in partnership with several local organizations: REDUN, <a href=\"https:\/\/ankors.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANKORS<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/caibc.ca\/openprofiles\/nelson-fentanyl-task-force-nftf-castlegar-fentanyl-opioid-working-group-grand-forks-community-action-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nelson Fentanyl Taskforce<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It featured a panel discussion on human rights, harm reduction, overdose prevention services, and the role of low-barrier public healthcare in preventing overdose fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speakers at the discussion included Beeta Senedjani of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Tiffany Teal of REDUN and Zoey Dodd of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the story on CJLY below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rural Empowered Drug Users Network (REDUN) emphasized the need for a safe inhalation site in Nelson at the\u00a0Canadian Drug Policy Coalition webinar yesterday on the drug crisis in the Kootenays. The event titled Bridging Community Connections in Nelson: Human Rights and Harm Reduction was done in partnership with several local organizations: REDUN, ANKORS and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":200914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[30006,33858,680,2532,30007,26907,33859],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200744"}],"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=200744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200959,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200744\/revisions\/200959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200744"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=200744"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=200744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}