RECAP Health Services

02/20/2026

We are all about kindness week. Thank you Victory Meat & Produce Market for the bag of goodies. Our staff and participants enjoyed them 💙❤️

02/14/2026

❤️ Roses are red. Harm reduction works. ❤️

This Valentine’s Day, we’re not talking about chocolate.
We’re talking about compassion with receipts.

At RECAP, love looks like:
💊 💉OAT and iOAT that keep people alive
🩺 🦠Hep C testing and treatment that actually cures
🚑 ⚕️Naloxone in every pocket
🫶 💟Care that doesn’t require “readiness”

We don’t make people prove they deserve healthcare.
We meet them where they’re at.

Because harm reduction isn’t enabling.
It’s evidence-based. ✅
It’s cost-effective. ✅
It saves lives. ✅

Happy Valentine’s Day from the RECAP team — where our love language is dignity.💙❤️

02/14/2026

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Naloxone nasal spray kits for emergency use are available on our Fredericton and Saint John campuses, including our residences and Moncton site. These kits, introduced in January 2025, are part of a coordinated effort to support emergency response readiness and promote safety across our university community.

The rise of opioid use in New Brunswick and the subsequent increase in opioid-related overdoses and deaths reflect a concerning trend across Canada. Making naloxone accessible is a proactive step toward supporting the safety and well-being of individuals on our campuses.

Visit https://bit.ly/3WhL9nJ for more information on naloxone, where to access kits in an emergency, training, resources and supports related to opioid use and risk for overdose.

02/12/2026

02/06/2026

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Oh Canada 🇨🇦 Harm reduction in Canada was never meant to stand alone but that’s exactly how it’s been implemented.

Over the past decade, policies like supervised consumption sites, safe supply programs, and decriminalization efforts have been rolled out as headline solutions to the overdose crisis.
In theory, harm reduction saves lives by meeting people where they are. In practice, without the proper supports wrapped around it, it has proven deeply ineffective and in some cases, harmful to both users and communities.

Harm reduction only works when it’s part of a full continuum of care. That means accessible detox, long term treatment, mental health services, housing, income support, and meaningful pathways to recovery.
In Canada, those supports are underfunded, wait listed, or simply unavailable. We’ve focused on keeping people alive day to day, while failing to help them build lives worth staying alive for.

Supervised consumption sites can prevent overdoses, but they don’t treat addiction. Safe supply can reduce poisoning from toxic drugs, but without medical oversight, counseling, and exit options, it risks entrenching dependency.
Decriminalization without treatment doesn’t remove harm, it just shifts it into public spaces, leaving users stuck and communities frustrated.

The result is a system that manages decline instead of promoting recovery. People cycle through emergency rooms, shelters, jails, and the streets with no clear off ramp. Families watch loved ones survive overdose after overdose, only to be told there are no treatment beds available.
Frontline workers are burned out, trying to fill gaps that policy refuses to acknowledge.

Criticizing the way harm reduction has been implemented is not the same as opposing compassion. In fact, it’s the opposite. True compassion means refusing to accept a status quo where survival is the only goal and recovery is treated as optional or unrealistic.

Canada doesn’t have a harm reduction problem, we have a support problem. Until housing, treatment, mental health care, and recovery services are built at the same scale as harm reduction policies, we will continue to fail the very people these programs claim to help.

If you think people deserve, and your community deserves better, then share this with every politician and person you know because nothing changes if we stay silent and keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Peoples lives depend on it.
People helping people is what it’s all about.❤️
Much love everyone!! Stay safe out there.

Charles Burrell
Founder
The Humanity Project for Social Solutions Inc.
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01/18/2026

01/15/2026

One of RECAP’s founders Dr. Duncan Webster, from Saint John, discussing respiratory illnesses 🦠 😷

01/13/2026

01/06/2026

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When Joyce, an LPN at Horizon’s Miramichi Regional Hospital, learned a local shelter would be opening later than planned, she knew she had to act. After seeing someone walking through town without a hat or mitts on a cold winter day, she challenged her colleagues to help keep their neighbours warm.

With support from the Psychiatry and Addictions team, winter items were collected and donated to Helping Hands Miramichi, where they will be shared directly with people experiencing homelessness.

Everyone deserves kindness, and even small acts can make a big difference. This is the in action. 💙
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Lorsque Joyce, une infirmière auxiliaire autorisée à l’Hôpital régional de Miramichi, a appris qu’un refuge local allait ouvrir ses portes plus t**d que prévu, elle savait qu’elle devait faire quelque chose. Après avoir vu quelqu’un se promener en ville avec rien pour se couvrir la tête ni les mains durant une journée froide d’hiver, elle a décidé de mettre ses collègues au défi de l’aider à réchauffer ses concitoyens.

Avec le soutien de l’équipe de psychiatrie et de traitement des dépendances, des articles pour l’hiver ont été recueillis et donnés à Helping Hands Miramichi, où ils seront remis directement à des personnes sans abri.

Tout le monde mérite d’être traité avec gentillesse et même les petits gestes peuvent avoir de belles retombées. Voici un exemple de ce qui se passe . 💙

12/25/2025

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Poppy the Elf went on a motorcycle ride with her friend Frosty and learned an important lesson: stimulants aren’t about ‘partying’ for most people — they’re about staying awake, coping with stress, or just getting through the day. 🙌🏼

They can boost energy, but also raise heart rate, increase anxiety, and seriously mess with sleep.
Harm reduction means real talk, safer choices, and supporting people — not judging them. ❤️

Also: hydrate. Even elves need water. 💧