harm reduction

On Monday our federal health minister, the one with no medical training, the very same one that went on TV and claimed that he actually believes enforcement is a form of harm reduction, took it upon himself to lecture the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association on what he contends is the ethical contradiction of supervised injection sites for drug user.  read more »

This is a Video about Vancouver's Insite, a safe and supervised enviroment for the I.V. drug using community in Vancouver. Since the opening of Insite, overdose rates and the instances of bloodbourn illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and HEP C have visably dropped. Other important benifits are seen in the health, safety and dignity of the drug using community.

http://www.communityinsite.ca/

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I noticed a story on the front page of the Freeps today. City staff has reported to the community and protective services committee that it would take five years and $15 million to address the growing drug problem in the city's core, with a safe injection site as part of that strategy.  read more »