Episode 8.17 - Calling Out CoRE!

About this episode

The episode discusses the issues surrounding a paper published by CoRE that was used to justify closing Supervised Consumption Sites, featuring insights from addiction research experts.

On March 10th, 2026 CoRE (which is a part of the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction) published a paper in the Journal “Addiction” that the UCP then used to justify shuttering Supervised Consumption Sites. But there’s some pretty big problems with the paper, and there’s some massive problems with how it has been represented! To get to the core of the problem, we sat down with 3 professors who are experts in addictions research, Dr Tara Gomes from the University of Toronto, Dr Kora DeBeck from Simon Fraser University and Dr Rebecca Saah from the University of Calgary! You’re going to want to stick around for the end of this episode as it has a surprise that you definitely won’t see coming! If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight back against the $6 Million lawsuit against us by Sam Mraiche, the man who imported Vanch masks and the Turkish Tylenot as well as who hosted MLA's and Ministers in his skybox as he had business with the government... You can do that at www.savethebreakdownab.ca! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we're trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our Patreon site at…

People in this episode

Host: The Breakdown

Guests: Dr Tara Gomes, Dr Kora DeBeck, Dr Rebecca Saah

Topics covered

• addiction research
• supervised consumption sites
• mental health policy
• academic critique
• legal defense

Keywords

• CoRE
• supervised consumption sites
• addiction
• mental health
• research critique
• legal defense
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CoRE, Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction

Products: Vanch masks, Turkish Tylenot

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