Dustin Godfrey

The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt a constitutional challenge and giving doctors permission to force medications on youth. It’s doing so under the guise of “incr... See more

As British Columbia’s overdose crisis escalated in the second half of the 2010s, Jeremy Kalicum was getting his first experience in harm reduction—first in Nanaimo, a city a couple of hours north of Victoria, then in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. “You’re... See more

“DULF’s pilot project worked,” a Supreme Court of British Columbia judge stated on November 7, referring to the compassion club that sold tested heroin, meth and cocaine to members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Justice Catherine Murray pointed to the ... See more