STILL DYING FOR ACCESS in Alberta!

October 19, 2022 by Angela Welz

In Alberta people are DYING FOR ACCESS to harm reduction, safer supply and evidence based treatment.

In February of 2022, Moms Stop The Harm and Albertans for Evidence-Based Drug Policy joined in solidarity with people who use drugs in rallies and vigils held in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge for the many lives lost to drug poisoning deaths. Nothing has been done since that time and in fact the Alberta government has made matters incrementally worse and the deaths continue to ravage communities and Albertan families.

Update - Paper Petition to the Government of Canada

October 05, 2022 by Angela Welz

Please consider helping by doing a petition!

In November of 2019, Moms Stop The Harm members launched a petition urging the Government of Canada to take action on the drug poisoning and overdose crisis.

This was all during the time of COVID lock downs, but our members took heed and completed petitions and sent them to their MPs who then presented them in the House of Commons, thereby sending our urgent message to the federal government!

You can find out more information here on how you can help us continue this important work by reading more below.

IOAD Awareness Day 2022 - suggestion ACTIONS

July 18, 2022 by Angela Welz

Please consider helping by doing a petition!

In November of 2019, Moms Stop The Harm members launched a petition urging the Government of Canada to take action on the drug poisoning and overdose crisis.

You can find out more information here on how you can help us continue this important work by reading more below.

MSTH is sending MP's to summer school this year

June 27, 2022 by Angela Welz in Public Health Emergency, Drug poisoning crisis

The House of Commons is taking a summer break and MPs are heading back to their homes until September 19th, 2022 when the HoC resumes.

On June 1st, 2022, MP Philip Lawrence (Conservative), who represents the riding where I live in Ontario, voted NO to sending Bill C-216 to the Standing Committee on Health for further evaluation. This got me thinking; Lawrence should really be hitting summer school over the next couple of months to better educate himself on the national public health emergency that is the toxic drug and overdose crisis.

I decided to give MP Lawrence his first assignment: READ THE BOOK Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis by Benjamin Perrin. I bought a copy and delivered it in person to his constituency office; while Lawrence was still in Ottawa, his chief of staff received it and my request for them both to read it this summer. I told him I'd be expecting their reports before they head back to session in the fall.

Poppy Seeds for a Safe Supply NOW!

April 19, 2022 by Angela Welz

A Bereaved Mother’s Day Action by Moms Stop the Harm

Moms Stop the Harm is sending one thousand Poppy Seed Packets to Canada’s Prime Minister and other members of parliament starting on April 25th to the 29th of April, 2022, in time for Bereaved Mothers Day on May 1, 2022.

For Moms Stop the Harm, poppy seeds have special meaning: they represent a safe supply of psychoactive substances.

Moms Stop the Harm is fighting to create a safe supply of substances because our loved ones continue to be harmed and to die from an increasingly toxic drug supply. The Canadian government has the ability to establish a regulated and safe supply of psychoactive substances. But, our federal government still has no National Safe Supply Strategy.