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A homeless man stays in a warm area after having dinner at a shelter in Thunder Bay, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Drug dealers are plundering people’s homes into ‘trap houses,’ driving up homelessness and violence in Thunder Bay

Marta-Marika Urbanik, University of Alberta; Carolyn Greene, Wilfrid Laurier University; Katharina Maier, University of Winnipeg, and Matthew Valasik, University of Alabama

Fentanyl dealers expanding into new markets across Canada are devastating smaller cities like Thunder Bay, fuelling violence and worsening the homelessness crisis.
A wall at a supervised consumption site in Ottawa is decorated with notes written in chalk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Supervised consumption sites reduce drug overdoses and disease transmission — and deserve government support

Carolyn Greene, Athabasca University; Katharina Maier, University of Winnipeg, and Marta-Marika Urbanik, University of Alberta

Supervised consumption sites provide essential community connections and services for those who use them. By closing them, governments are risking the welfare of people who use drugs.
Annie Storey holds a cross with a photo of her late son Alex Storey, before a march to mark the five-year anniversary of British Columbia declaring a public health emergency in the overdose crisis, in Vancouver, on April 14, 2021. CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Overdose crisis: The COVID‑19 pandemic has laid bare decades of drug policy failures

Katharina Maier, University of Winnipeg and Rebecca Hume, University of Winnipeg

Across the country, overdose deaths have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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