Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 34: Mish Waraksa draws on experience as a healthcare worker to discuss harm reduction and targeted misinformation surrounding it

Mish Waraksa, a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with over four years of experience working in safer opioid supply programs in Toronto, discussed how contaminants in the illicit opioid supply chain complicate the job of healthcare workers and the life-threatening side effects that come with Benzodiazepines and other impurities getting mixed into the street supply.

Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 33: Katie Langille draws on healthcare experience to talk Safer Supply and its positive effects on Toronto community

Katie Langille is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in the SOS Program at the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre. SOS is a Safer Opioid Supply program established in 2020. Clients receive prescriptions for pharmaceutical opioids to decrease their reliance on the toxic, unpredictable street supply.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps: the perpetual Woodstein Media contest

This is Woodstein Media’s first and likely only contest. There will be no others until someone succeeds at this task.

The contest is simple, at least according to the more conservative segment of society. All you have to do is pull yourself up by your bootstraps to win.

Is that a flag or a rag flapping over the misinformation superhighway?

A discussion of politics in an era when discussing facts means arguing reality. When the “freedom convoy” rolls on and the dust settles, will that red and white fabric be viewed as a flag representing “true patriot love” or as a rag concealing conspiracy theories and hatred?