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OPEN LETTER: Supervised Consumption Services site closures due to lack of funding from Ministry of Health
March 4 2024 The Honourable Sylvia Jones Ministry of Health [email protected] | [email protected] 777 Bay Street, 5th Floor Toronto, ON M7A 2J3 The Honourable Michael Tibollo Ministry of Health [email protected] | [email protected] 7 Queen’s Park Crescent Toronto, ON M7A 1Y7 Dear Minister Jones and Associate Minister Tibollo, RE: Supervised Consumption Services site closures due to lack of funding from Ministry of Health We write…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BC Supreme Court rules in favour of Harm Reduction Nurses Association, pauses coming into force of BC’s public drug consumption law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BC Supreme Court rules in favour of Harm Reduction Nurses Association, pauses coming into force of BC’s public drug consumption law xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands | Vancouver, BC | December 29, 2023 Today, the BC Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction to the Harm Reduction Nurses Association (HRNA), suspending the coming into…
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Cheap, Easy, and Lifesaving—Naloxone Treatment for Overdose
How much does it cost to save a life? That question got a clear and striking answer this week in the case of overdose from heroin in the United States. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that distribution of the overdose antidote naloxone—a safe, non-abusable, and inexpensive medicine—to one in five heroin users in the…
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Attorney Generals Speak Out On Pot Prohibition
Last Friday, in a commentary piece for the Globe and Mail, four former B.C. Attorney Generals came out in very clear terms and said what needs to be said: Canada’s pot laws don’t work. “As four former attorneys-general of British Columbia, we were the province’s chief prosecutors and held responsibility for overseeing the criminal justice…
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Book Review-The Political Economy of Narcotics: Production, Consumption and Global Markets
by Craig Jones Former Executive Director, The John Howard Society of Canada. The Political Economy of Narcotics: Production, Consumption and Global Markets By Julia Buxton, PhD Zed Books, 2007, Julia Buxton sets herself two purposes: first, to explain how the “balloon effect” undermines even the best executed drug prohibition policies conceived according to the logic…
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The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition on Cannabis Regulation
Canada is at a turning point in terms of cannabis policy. The Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation has released its discussion paper for input. The Task Force proposes five elements of a new system for cannabis. I discuss each of these elements from the CDPC’s perspective. Minimizing harms of use A public health approach…
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Unions Can Take a Stand on Drug Policy
Bad drug policy hurts workers. You’d be hard-pressed to find somebody in this country whose community hasn’t been affected by the drug poisoning crisis. That’s why it’s so important when labour unions take a stand on drug policy. There’s momentum building in the labour movement to protect workers and their communities from the unregulated drug…
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B.C. physicians issue report on drug policy and law reform
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by David Eby (Reposted with permission) It’s hard to imagine an area more difficult for politicians talk about than drug policy reform. Maybe raising taxes. Today, B.C.’s Health Officers council gave the politicians some breathing room by issuing a report that calls for a provincial dialogue on reforming drug law in Canada and…
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21st Century Justice: The Economics of Public Safety
Every day, most of us make certain assumptions. We assume that we are generally safe in our homes and on our streets. We assume that the government services that we rely upon will continue unimpaired. We assume that our lot, as individuals and as a community, will improve over time. We don’t expect a collapse…