Dan Werb
@dmwerb
Author of THE INVISIBLE SIEGE, Winner of the 2022 Writers' Trust Prize. Order @ hyperurl.co/3ugz1e. Director of @drugpolicyctr. Many interests. Subscribe below!
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Today in Gaza, the Ministry of Health declared the Gaza Strip a polio epidemic zone. This is beyond devastating news to anyone who cares about public and population health. This also affects neighbouring countries and is a major setback for the global polio eradication program.
Genocidal intent: Netanyahu's far-right minister Smotrich implied "he believes blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is 'justified & moral' even if it causes 2M civilians to die of hunger, but the international community won’t allow that to happen." timesofisrael.com/smotrich-it-ma….
He was deeply involved in supporting and advocating for people whose drugs and was a co-founder of the Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance and the Toronto Harm Reduction Workers Union. Here he is in a documentary “Good People Use Drugs”: youtu.be/odJCkeFygpY?si…
Some of the best health researchers in the country including Dan Werb & Ayden Scheim worked on this peer-reviewed article in the The Lancet. Read them on the efficacy of safe injection sites, and dismiss the cheap political scapegoating.
Earlier this year, a study in the The Lancet found a 67% reduction in overdose deaths in neighbourhoods within 500 metres of supervised consumption sites. That reduction in mortality rippled as far as five kilometres from the sites. via Toronto Star thestar.com/news/gta/heres…