Moms Stop the Harm challenges laws and policies that cause harm, including those laws that continue to drive the unregulated drug poisoning emergency in Canada. We call for an end to the failed war on drugs through evidence-based prevention, treatment and policy change.

stopping the harm: psychosocial outcomes of families of the opioid epidemic In 2020 we partnered with UBC researcher Jamie Piercy in a study that looked at the characteristics and perceived needs of families affected by the overdose crisis.

Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH) est un réseau de mères et de famille canadiennes dont un ou une proche a perdu la vie à cause de l’utilisation de substances, est aux prises avec la consommation de drogues, en a vécu l’expérience, est en voie de guérison ou espère s’en remettre.

March 15, 2025 - Moms Stop the Harm, a network of Canadian families impacted by substance use-related harms and deaths who advocate for changes to drug policy, have also raised criticism. "What this type of announcement does is instill fear in …

Moms Stop the Harm demande que cesse la guerre contre la drogue, une approche qui s’avère un échec, pour privilégier plutôt la prévention, le traitement et des changements dans les politiques qui s’appuient sur des données probantes.

Dec 19, 2024 · November 26, 2024 - Angela Welz and Moms Stop the Harm believe involuntary substance legislation like PChAD can cause serious harm and death. Welz knows first-hand, because she used the legislation to force her daughter into 12 days of treatment after she started to struggle with drug use in high school.

Sep 21, 2016 · Harm reduction. Aims to keep people alive and as healthy as possible. Reduces the risk of infections and blood born diseases. Connects people with social and health services and/or treatment. Reduces the need to access emergency services and saves healthcare costs. Encourages self-respect and offers hope. Harm reduction includes: Needle exchanges

Dec 23, 2015 · Deb Bailey, Vancouver, BC. I lost my daughter, Ola (nickname- Izzy), aged 21, on Dec. 23, 2015. She was struggling with an addiction to heroin and died after taking heroin which also contained Fentanyl.

Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH) is a network of Canadian families impacted by substance-use related harms and deaths. Families are not only the people we are related to. MSTH defines families as those that are acquired, by birth or chosen, whatever may be the case for you.

Kits are available from community health clinics, harm reduction programs and pharmacies. Make sure friends and family know how to administer Naloxone.