Series on toxic drug series continues Feb 26 and March 26

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Panelists at Jan. 29 opening event

Our first event is a wrap in our speaker series on the toxic drug crisis, “Out of Harm’s Way: Insight, Innovation and Action on the Toxic Drug Crisis.” More than 200 people attended the event at First Metropolitan Church sanctuary.

Bookmark these dates/times for the next two events, which we expect will be equally enlightening: Wednesday Feb. 26, 3-6 p.m. for a look at BC interventions and evidence related to the toxic drug crisis; and Wednesday, March 26, 2-5 p.m., for a powerful dialogue among people with lived experience talking about their own experiences with recovery (in the broadest definition of that word). Click here for updated information on these events as the dates draw closer.

Thank you to the participants of our opening dialogue on Jan. 29 – from left to right in the photo above: harm reduction and recovery advocate Guy Felicella; former BC chief coroner Lisa Lapointe; Canadian Drug Policy Coalition Executive Director DJ Larkin; Qom Qem outgoing director Lacey Jones (and incoming Director of Toxic Drug Response for the First Nations Health Authority); Moms Stop the Harm co-founder Leslie McBain; and moderator Dr. Perry Kendall, BC’s former provincial health officer.

Check back here for more details as those dates approach. Admission is free for all events. See you there!

Public dialogue on toxic drug crisis starts Wednesday

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Peers is excited to launch our speaker series this week on the toxic drug crisis. “Out of Harm’s Way: Insight, Innovation and Action on the Toxic Drug Crisis” gets underway Wednesday with the first of three events.

Join us Wednesday Jan. 29, 1-4 p.m. in the sanctuary at First Metropolitan Church (corner of Quadra and Balmoral streets) for our opening event, featuring a dialogue with former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, Leslie McBain of Moms Stop the Harm, harm reduction and recovery advocate Guy Felicella, QomQem Director Lacey Jones, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition ED DJ Larkin, and BC’s former provincial medical health officer, Dr. Perry Kendall.

More details at the link, where we’ll be posting more information about the next two events soon. All events are free – hope to see you there for one of the most important conversations of this decade.