{"id":16450,"date":"2017-12-07T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=16450"},"modified":"2022-10-04T22:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T02:27:29","slug":"good-samaritan-drug-overdose-act-wallet-cards-now-available","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/good-samaritan-drug-overdose-act-wallet-cards-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Wallet Cards now available"},"content":{"rendered":"With Canada\u2019s fatal overdose crisis still surging, the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, issued 50,000 wallet-size cards with vital information about the 2017 <em>Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act<\/em>. The cards and an accompanying fact sheet were provided to people who use drugs, service providers and volunteer organizations serving people at risk of experiencing or witnessing an overdose emergency, and stakeholders in health, social services, government and law enforcement across Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full news release in the download below.<\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\">As of March 2019,<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><b>the cards have all been distributed. We hope to be able to distribute more copies in the future.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\">You can download <a href=\"..\/see-an-overdose-call-911-immediately\/?lang=en\">the free PDF version of the card here.<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Wallet Cards now available\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16444\/?tmstv=1776680436\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Canada\u2019s fatal overdose crisis still surging, the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, issued 50,000 wallet-size cards with vital information about the 2017 Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act. The cards and an accompanying fact sheet were provided to people who use drugs, service providers and volunteer organizations &#8230; <a title=\"Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Wallet Cards now available\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/good-samaritan-drug-overdose-act-wallet-cards-now-available\/\" aria-label=\"More on Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Wallet Cards now available\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-16450","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22568,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16450\/revisions\/22568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=16450"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=16450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}