Tell Jason Kenney how you feel about his decision to cut #HarmReduction while four Albertans die from #DrugPoisoning every day!

While letters are unlikely to change this government ideological beliefs, they will show how we feel and create a public record that will establish who was on the right side of history for future generations to see.

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Harm reduction in Alberta is under assault by an uncaring government that ignores the evidence and the mounting overdose deaths.

When the UCP government came to power in 2019 they halted the proposed consumption site in Medicine Hat and cancelled the deployment of an approved and ready-to-go mobile site in Calgary that was to serve hard-hit diverse communities in the south-east of that city.

On August 31, 2020 (on International Overdose Awareness Day), the Alberta government shut the ARCHES consumption site in Lethbridge under allegations of financial mismanagement that was not substantiated by a subsequent RCMP investigation.

On April 30th, 2021 the site attached to Boyle Street Community Services, last offered at an emergency shelter at the Edmonton Convention Centre, was closed and Alanna Smith from the Calgary Herald broke a story about the closure of the Safeworks site at the Sheldon Chumir Centre in Calgary. There will be further changes and possible cuts in other cities.

This is all in addition to funding cuts to harm reduction service providers and the re-writing and weakening of Alberta's harm reduction policy.

Thankfully through public legal action, the injectable (iOAT) treatment programs in Edmonton and Calgary were saved, but only for those who are currently in the program, as no new patents are being accepted.

The government instead is praising what they call the Alberta Model, largely focused on abstinence-based residential care.

Jason Kenney and his UCP party, do not realize that dead people need coffins not beds, and that every overdose that is reversed means a family does not have to arrange a funeral.

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