On Drug Deaths, Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment
Of late, CPC leader Pierre Poilievre has been making a lot of noise about drug addiction, deaths resulting from overdoses, and so on. So far, much of his rhetoric and…
drug policy
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Nicole Grether writes about the hundreds of thousands of young people orphaned by COVID-19 in the U.S. alone, while Kyodo News reports on…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dyani Lewis writes that we know enough to ensure clean indoor air if we care enough to work on limiting the spread of…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Eric Anderson writes that capitalism has been developed to exploit psychological vulnerability for profit. And Ludvig Weir and Gabriel Zucman highlight how the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Maura Hohman discusses how COVID-19 has been found to cause increased heart problems in young people (among other harm to health) –…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Richard Denniss calls out Australia’s government for its “nothing to see here” approach to an ongoing public health emergency. And Falko Tesch…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Abinaya Vijayaraghavan and Jennifer Rigby report on the World Health Organization’s recognition that COVID-19 remains a global public health emergency even as far…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ed Browne examines the differences between the Kraken variant and the forms of COVID-19 which have come before. Char Leung, Li Su…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk helpfully lists some of the most important facts which people need to keep in mind in evaluating COVID-19 risks (and…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olha Puhach, Benjamin Meyer and Isabella Eckerle examine what we’ve learned about viral shedding from the COVID pandemic so far, while Bhanvi Satija…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Benjamin Veness writes that the best way to address the dangers of long COVID is to prevent spread of the underlying viruses.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the looming prospect that COVID-19 infections will cause ongoing damage by exhausting people’s immunity, while Betsy Ladyzhets writes about…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Pratyush Dayal reports on the COVID outbreak which has infected every single resident of a Regina care home. And Dan Scheuerman reports…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – David Macdonald offers a reminder that any difficulty employers are having finding workers is a result of their failing to pay wages…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachel Aiello reports on Health Canada’s approval of COVID booster vaccines targeted at the Omicron variants. And Andrew Romano discusses the hope…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC News reports on the rise of COVID levels in Saskatchewan cities’ wastewater. David Axe reports on the development of the BA.4.6 variant…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bedir Alihsan et al. examine the effectiveness of face masks in preventing COVID-19 infections in both health care and community settings. And…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder discusses the imminent prospect of a majority of Americans suffering from long COVID as more and more dangerous variants are allowed…