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 | | Along with the on-site coordinator, two registered nurses are present at all times with an addiction counselor and physician support available on-call. | | | Injection drug use in the DTES Sept 15 2003 | | | Clients who enter the SIS are assessed and led through a waiting area to a 12-seat injection room where they can inject their own drugs under the supervision of trained medical staff. |
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| | Harm reduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Moderation Management is a program which helps drinkers to cut back on their consumption of alcohol and which encourages safe drinking behavior. | | | A bin allowing for safe disposal of needles in a public toilet in Caernarfon, Wales. | | | Critics claim that these measures will encourage addiction by making it easier to inject illicit drugs, although this has never been shown to be the case in the many evaluations of needle exchange programs. |
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| | Scoop: Urban Jungle: Vancouver's Safe Injection Site |
| | Opening a safe injection site does not in any way deal with drug trafficking, so further projects including heroin maintenance programs which supply the drug are also about to be initiated while enforcement continues to be a key pillar in the plan. | | | The idea of a safe injection site couldn't get beyond the public uproar of the philosophical and moral position of why an addict should be given a legal place to use drugs. | | | Thomas Kerr, research associate and co-principal investigator of ESIS (Evaluation of the Supervised Injection Site) with the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says, "It is tempting to offer conclusions, but that would misinform the public before it is evaluated and is given time to be scrutinized regarding its impact on population health." |
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| | Study plays down fears over safe injection site Vancouver experiment doesn't increase hard drug use, researchers find @ ... |
| | The report, the first of its kind, is proof that the reduction in harm pointed out in previous studies --including a decrease in sharing of needles and public disorder -- isn't outweighed by a possible increase in illegal drug use, said one of the authors, Thomas Kerr. | | | The authors interviewed 871 intravenous drug users about their drug use before and after the site was established. | | | Nor does the availability of the site significantly decrease the chance that addicts will seek treatment through methadone programs, according to the study done by the B.C. Centre of Excellence for HIV/AIDS and funded by Health Canada. |
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| | thetyee.ca Vancouver's Drug Experiment Winning Converts |
| | Safe injection sites and free clinical heroin will not only save addicts' lives, they will help prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitus, they will help control the cost of our ICBC premiums, and save us tax $$ by not having to scour the alleys cleaning up used needles. | | | As for the 'negative consequences of addiction', harm reduction also refers to reducing the amount of harm to society as a whole, not just the addict. | | | Face off with U.S. Even if some of these radical treatment ideas are located safely in the future, enough has gone on to get the United States in a tizzy over the Vancouver experiment. |
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| | Drug Policy Alliance: North America’s First Safe Injection Site Opens |
| | The injection site, modeled after clinics in Europe and Australia, will dispense clean needles to reduce disease and will monitor users to reduce overdoses. | | | U.S. Drug Czar John Walters has referred to Vancouver’s safe-injection site proposals as "state-sponsored personal suicide" ignoring the large body of evidence verifying that these harm reduction interventions prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases without increasing drug use. | | | The clinic is expected to service 800 drug users a day, who will bring their own drugs. |
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| | Injection sites by Jan 1: Campbell-Nov 5, 2002 |
| | There are 26 cantons and about 5,000 detox beds, compared to 99 in B.C. There are 3,500 treatment beds in Switzerland, maybe about 400 or 500 in B.C. "[Referring to the four-pillar approach to drug treatment in Vancouver] one of the pillars is safe-injection sites. | | | Larry Campbell wants a safe-injection site for drug addicts in place by Jan. | | | "I believe that the delivery of health care should be evidence-based and the research in Europe and Australia shows that [safe-injection sites] are effective. |
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| | Dr Bongs Weblog Entry - 06/25/2003: "safe-injection site wins police immunity" |
| | Safe injection sites are part of the government-approved, four pillars approach to improving conditions in the area and trying to combat the terrible toll taken by widespread drug addiction. | | | to establish, scientifically, whether supervised injection sites can improve health outcomes and reduce the harm to drug users," said Heather Hay, the Vancouver Community Director who will oversee the site's operation. | | | If drug users had been considered people, we would have gotten a far more immediate response." |
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| | Many believe part of a more responsible approach to harm reduction should be opening a safe injection site in Toronto. | | | The Vancouver mayor said the site does not equal a soft attitude towards hard drugs. | | | I think addiction to drugs is a health issue and it needs to be addressed through health, not through criminalizing the users.” |
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| | Capital News Online Injection-site plan shoots down committee, Rock's critics charge |
| | Safe-injection sites are places where addicts can shoot up with sterilized needles. | | | It is estimated that there are as many as 125,000 Canadian addicts, spreading disease by sharing needles. | | | Some critics claim safe-injection sites encourage abuse, rather than rehabilitation, for addicts. |
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| | Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network - Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review |
| | Previous studies have indicated that the involvement of injection drug users helps to increase the reach and effectiveness of harm-reduction interventions (eg, needle exchanges), and that user-driven interventions have been found to be more effective in terms of the coverage they provide than traditional service-provider interventions. | | | We are very disappointed that groups did this now, because we are supporters of the official-supervised safe injection site application that has been forwarded to Health Canada
.We are monitoring the situation, but we will not be taking any immediate action. | | | The experience of the SIS provides valuable lessons for those seeking to advance the interests of injection drug users through community mobilization and direct action approaches. |
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| | babble: safe injection site... |
| | It is a philosophy of treatment of proven effectiveness, based on considerable amounts of solid research and clinical experience dating back to the early 60's. | | | The idea of feeding hungry kids vs. providing a full range of treatment options for the medical problem of drug addiction and its resultant social issues is a false duality so clear, it's not worthy of response. | | | With respect to the Vancouver safe injection site, I recall the controversies around methadone clinics when they first started out. |
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| | CTV.ca Training begins for first safe-injection site |
| | Twelve nurses were selected out of a pool of about 50 applicants, along with hand-picked peer counsellors drawn from drug users and Downtown Eastside residents. | | | For this assignment, nurses will have to put aside previous lessons on preaching the evils of drugs to patients. | | | -- Nurses are taking a crash course this week on how to help someone through an overdose and a description of life in one of the country's most notorious slums as they prepare to open an experimental safe-injection site for drug addicts. |
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| | City of Vancouver News Release: Mayor Campbell welcomes opening of Vancouver's supervised injection site |
| | Campbell added that, while the supervised injection site is an important step forward in the Four Pillars Drug Strategy, it is only one part of a comprehensive approach to addressing the drug problem. | | | Campbell acknowledged the ongoing support and work by Vancouver Coastal Health, the Vancouver Police Department and the provincial and federal governments to bring the supervised injection site research pilot from vision to reality. | | | Harm reduction is key part of Vancouver's integrated "four pillars" approach to Vancouver's drug problem, which also includes prevention, treatment and enforcement. |
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| | Canada's safe haven for junkies - Salon |
| | Coaxing marginalized addicts to embrace an official safe-injection site could prove difficult -- let alone making the site an effective stepping stone to detox and rehabilitation. | | | Michelle comes back out, check in hand, and as we hustle back toward Oppenheimer Park, I ask her what she thinks about the coming site. | | | A 1997 study of more than 1,400 Vancouver needle users revealed an HIV infection rate of 18 percent -- the highest level anywhere in the developed world. |
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| | Vancouver Safe Injection Site - Political Forums |
| | A UN organization has expressed concerns to Canada over Vancouver& safe injection site for addicts, saying the approach violates international agreements on ways to control drug abuse. | | | I think the whole concept is misguided and offensive. | | | A drug strategy focussed on prevention would do little to help those people already hooked. |
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| | Experts Debate Injection Site for Addicts |
| | According to the British Columbia Center for Disease Control, more than 30 percent of the area's addicts are infected with HIV or have full-blown AIDS, and the city already was handing out needles to addicts in an anti-infection program. | | | The clinic provides a bowl containing a needle, a "cooker" and matches to heat up the drugs, and an antiseptic swab. | | | She added that worries about drug dealers congregating around the site have proved unfounded. |
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| | Wired New York Forum - Canada opens safe drug injection site |
| | The aim of the program, which has been endorsed by Vancouver's police, is to offer ''injection supervision'' to prevent overdoses, as well as provide clean needles to reduce the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases epidemic among intravenous drug users. | | | The facility, to be located in the heart of the British Columbia port city's drug- and crime-ridden Downtown Eastside neighborhood, will provide a clinic-like setting where drug addicts can shoot up under the supervision of a registered nurse in a facility that offers a legal safe zone for drug users. | | | We see it as a health issue, not a criminal problem.'' |
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| | HEALTH-CANADA: Drug Injection Site Pricks U.S., U.N. Agencies |
| | Sixty-three percent of users rated the centre's overall quality as excellent and a further 32 percent rated it as good, according to a study conducted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. | | | ”Harm reduction is the underlying philosophy behind the site,” he says. | | | From Mar. 10, 2004 to the end of August 2004, 107 overdoses occurred there among 72 clients but no one died. |
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| | Public Health & Education U.S. Officials Critical of Vancouver's 'Safe-Injection Sites' for Heroin Users; Health ... |
| | At the sites, drug users receive clean needles, tourniquets, water and cotton balls, and a nurse supervises drug users' activities and provides them with referrals to detox centers and homeless shelters. | | | However, critics of the sites -- including John Walters, director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy -- said that they will "encourage heroin addiction" and make Vancouver's heroin problem worse, according to the | | | U.S. Officials Critical of Vancouver's 'Safe-Injection Sites' for Heroin Users; Health Workers Say Sites Could Reduce HIV Transmission |
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| | Doug's Dynamic Drivel: Safe Injection Sites |
| | As such, it is necessary to have a group of their peers available to them on professional, yet still common terms, that can assist the addicted population. | | | If an addict ODs while at the site there will be nurses there who can take immediate action and likely save the person's life. | | | By doing so Vancouver joins 27 other cities around the world who are taking a positive step to try and improve the lives, safety and health of drug addicts. |
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| | FReep this poll and help rid America of heroin addicts |
| | a safe delivery method does not encourage them to be responsible, productive citizens, it actually enables them in their addiction. | | | "A person who chooses to use the injection site, the main thing, I think, is less risk of HIV," said the soft-spoken man. | | | using addicts are still using addicts no matter how safe the delivery method. |
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| | North America's First Safe-Injection Site Opens |
| | The first safe-injection site is located in a clinic that treats people with HIV and AIDS. | | | U.S. drug czar John Walters said the safe-injection sites will encourage heroin addiction and increase the city's drug problem. | | | Local health officials are hoping to curb the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C from intravenous-drug use and reduce the number of heroin deaths. |
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| | Canada's safe haven for junkies - Salon |
| | Friendly and mild-mannered, Oleson is modest about her role; she emphasizes that staffing a safe-injection site with addicts' peers is vital to promoting its use. | | | Megan Oleson is a registered nurse who works in critical care at Vancouver General Hospital by day; every night she comes here to provide clean needles and advice to junkies (who must supply their own drugs), with the help of volunteers including current and ex-users. | | | Safe-injection sites are first-contact work at the ground level. |
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| | Safe Injection Site May Not Benefit City: Expert |
| | Johnson said she wants to work with city police and agencies such as the needle exchange program Streetworks to study the problem of drug addiction in Edmonton and investigate whether safe injection sites would help. | | | "There is information that shows a site of this kind would help those who are on drugs to take some positive steps in their lives," Johnson said. | | | The study found that addicts who faced the highest risk of contracting infectious diseases, such as HIV, were most willing to use a safe injection site - a fact that critics have long disputed. |
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| | VCE and Lowe Riding "Back" Together? :: PEJ News |
| | Lowe said some people have told him the city shouldn't be "going down this route." But when they hear about the needles on the street and addicts shooting up in front of downtown businesses, they change their tune, he said. | | | Harm reduction isn't a safe-injection site, but it might be if the community says so? | | | "Having put the issue on the agenda, progressive councillors should overcome partisanship and work with others on council to ensure the issue is properly and fully addressed, for the benefit of our city, for the sake of injection drug users, for all of us." |
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| | Safe injection site visited by 600 users daily "exceeding expectations:" report on Sympatico / MSN Powered by ... |
| | Calling the project "state-sponsored suicide," Walters called the site a waste of resources that should go to treatment and said any policy making life easier for drug users will only attract more addicts. | | | VANCOUVER (CP) - Operators of North America's first safe injection site for intravenous drug users are claiming success, saying the site has "saved lives and improved lives." | | | The report's statistics, however, show a predominance of drug use at the safe injection site over treatment. |
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| | CTV.ca Vancouver's safe injection site nears capacity |
| | The safe-injection site, which is funded by the government and being run as a pilot project, provides drug addicts with needles and allows them to shoot up in a controlled environment. | | | The idea was put into practice to some degree earlier in the year. | | | Proponents argue harm-reduction strategies reduce the damage associated with illicit drug use, improve the health of addicts, increase their use of health and social services, and reduce the legal, social and health costs of addiction. |
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| | Drug Policy Alliance: Vancouver Mayor: Safe Injection Sites by March |
| | The Vancouver site will likely include a room where addicts can inject drugs under the supervision of medical staff and with clean needles, spoons and water. | | | Join the Drug Policy Alliance's work to promote drug policies based on science, compassion, health, and human rights. | | | It will also have a medical clinic for treatment of addiction-related health problems like abscesses and other infections, a counseling department for referrals to detox and treatment programs, and other associated services. |
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| | CBC News: Vancouver's safe-injection site a concern: UN |
| | The Vancouver site lets addicts inject drugs in a safe, sterile place rather than on the street, possibly with dirty needles. | | | Critics say it encourages drug use and does nothing to help addicts to quit their habit. | | | The site basically allows people to "inject drugs acquired on the illicit market with impunity," the report said. |
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| | Welcome to the Vancouver Courier - On Line - News |
| | Albert Fok said he and the 200-plus merchants of Chinatown have compassion for drug addicts, and a safe injection site in the Downtown Eastside should be considered if no other police or health measures are working. | | | Safe-injection sites are a sensitive topic in the Chinese community. | | | The chairman of the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants' Association says though he doesn't want a safe-injection site for drug addicts in the community, he could live with one a few blocks away. |
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| | Vancouver Safe Injection Site Proves Popular |
| | The nurses prevented six deaths by drug overdose since the site opened on Sept. 15, according to Townsend. | | | Intravenous drug users in the city's poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside come to the building to get clean needles. | | | The two nurses at the site, which opened less than seven weeks ago, are overseeing about 450 drug injections a day. |
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| | CBC News: Researchers deem Vancouver's safe injection site a success |
| | VANCOUVER - Vancouver's supervised drug injection site is making its Downtown Eastside a better place to live, according to a new study. | | | More than 500 addicts use the clinic every day. | | | Heart patients should avoid ADHD drugs: Health Canada |
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| | Study Says Safe-Injection Site Prevents Disease |
| | Researchers led by Thomas Kerr of the British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS looked at data from before and after the injection site opened in September 2003 and concluded that site users were 70 percent less likely to share needles. | | | A "safe-injection" site established for Vancouver IV-drug users has succeeded in cutting needle sharing and preventing transmission of diseases like HIV and hepatitis, http:/vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_needles-study20050318" target="_BLANK">CBC News reported March 18. | | | Government Study Finds Marijuana Safe for AIDS Patients |
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| | Global Challenges Canada Approves 'Safe Injection Site' for Heroin Users in Attempt To Curb HIV Transmission - ... |
| | Critics of the sites -- including John Walters, director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy -- have said that such programs will encourage heroin use and make Vancouver's heroin problem worse. | | | At the site, drug users receive clean needles, tourniquets, water and cotton balls, and a nurse supervises drug users' activities and provides them with referrals to detox centers and homeless shelters ( | | | Walters, who said he has concerns about Canada becoming "a major drug producer," has referred to the safe-injection sites as "state-sponsored personal suicide" ( |
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| | North America's First Safe Injection Site for IV Drug Users Unveiled |
| | "In-Site will help the community - both the drug users and other residents - deal with addiction in a new and progressive way," says Liz Evans, a board member in Health Quest. | | | Terms and conditions, including restrictions on redistribution, apply. | | | "This facility offers a practical solution to managing the negative impacts of drug addition including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and overdose deaths." There are 2,400 flowers on site to commemorate the lives of those in British Columbia who have died of preventable drug overdose deaths in the last 10 years. |
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| | COPE: Vancouver Opens North America's First Safe-Injection Site (SIS) |
| | -Based on solutions proven successful in jurisdictions including Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, Vancouver& safe injection site is part of a harm-reduction strategy that accepts abstinence from drug use may not be a realistic goal for some drug users. | | | -Operated by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), the SIS research pilot will provide: supervision of injections, including emergency response to drug overdoses; injection-related first aid (such as wound and abscess care); assessment and referral to primary health care and service providers; harm reduction teaching and counseling; and exchanges of condoms, needles and other injecting equipment. | | | -The three-year pilot project will also include a scientific, clinical evaluation of the effectiveness of the site and its health impacts. |
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| | Users have the opportunity "to be presented with options about moving to another drug, or moving to methadone, using counselling, getting calmness in their lives -- which is something they don't have as they race around the back laneways, avoiding the police... | | | Andrea Stevens Lavigne, the vice-president of education and health promotion at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said more research is needed on the effectiveness of supervised injection sites. | | | Safer injection sites can reduce the open use of drugs on the street and drug overdose. |
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| | The controversial safe-injection drug site is scheduled to have its official opening on Monday but likely won't be accepting clients for a few more days after that. | | | The project will be used to assess whether a harm-reduction strategy can reduce the damage associated with illicit drug use, improve the health of addicts, increase their use of health and social services, and reduce the legal, social and health costs of drug use. | | | While safe-injection sites are currently being used in some European countries such as the Netherlands, Vancouver has been widely regarded as a test city for others across Canada and the United States. |
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| | CANADA: Vancouver's Safe Site Popular with Junkies |
| | Maxine Davis, director of the Dr. Peter Centre, said five users have quit during the year and a half their center offered an injection site as part of its day health program which includes art and music therapy, counseling, hot meals, showers and medical services. | | | About 90 percent of intravenous drug users have hepatitis C and some 30 percent have HIV. | | | The roughly 5,000 heroin addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood prefer the city's first legal supervised safe injection site to drug use on the street, but some fear one such site is not enough. |
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| | B.C. crack addicts want government-funded pipe kits, safe place to smoke |
| | The kits follow the successful principle of the needle exchange. | | | She said the priority was on injection drug users because of the many health issues they face unrelated to their addiction, such as HIV and hepatitis. | | | The group wants access to a room specially built at the safe injection site for those who smoke or inhale their drugs. |
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| | AlterNet: DrugReporter: Safe Injection Site Opening in Vancouver, BC |
| | "It makes us the first health authority in Canada to have this exception that hopefully will allow us to establish scientifically whether supervised injection sites can improve health outcomes and reduce harm to drug users," Zanocco said. | | | A leading news site that focuses on the latest information about drug and alcohol abuse news, aiming to raise awareness and understanding of substance abuse and the problems it creates. | | | National grassroots coalition working to protect the rights of patients who use medical marijuana and the doctors who prescribe it. |
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| | Health officials say in the two years the Vancouver site has been operating, hundreds of overdose deaths have been averted, and many addicts have been directed to counselling and addiction services. | | | Dosanjh said if people at the local level believe that it works then a safe site should be established. | | | SURREY, B.C. (CP) - Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh says if neighbourhoods, health officials and local politicians are behind safe injection facilities for drug addicts, there should be more of them across the country. |
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| | globeandmail.com : Harper ‘not committed' to safe injection site |
| | A study earlier this year by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS concluded the supervised injection facility is not increasing rates of relapse among former drug users, nor is it a negative influence on those seeking to stop drug use. | | | Harper told a news conference Thursday the Conservative government is still deciding on the fate of the site where addicts are allowed to shoot heroin or use other injection drugs under the supervision of health-care workers. | | | Harper would say the government is asking the RCMP for an evaluation on the site because the Mounties have nothing to do with it. |
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| | CNEWS - Canada: Rogue safe injection site nurse honoured |
| | VANCOUVER - The nurse who set up an unauthorized safe injection site for intravenous drug users on Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside has been honored with an international human rights award. | | | At the storefront site, Oleson supervised injections, taught drug users safe practices and referred users to services they required. | | | The official safe injection site opened in September 2003 as part of Vancouver's Four Pillars approach to drug use harm reduction - prevention, harm reduction, treatment and enforcement. |
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| | But he did say, "One life saved is absolutely a success." Both Fogarassy and Metcalf said the Conservatives would impose stiffer penalties for dealers, while funding more treatment centres for people trying to quit drugs. | | | He said there have been 197 overdoses on the site, which could have turned deadly if emergency treatment was not available. | | | Fogarassy stopped short of saying he would defend the safe injection site if elected, insisting that more research was needed. |
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| | Drug crackdown may cut safe-injection site funds |
| | "What we're seeing here is a not-surprising position from [the Conservative] party that favours more of an enforcement approach to illegal drug use and of course the injection site is based on a harm-reduction approach," Adams said. | | | This site is a part of the canada.com Network. | | | Instead, he said the federal government must send a clear message that the proliferation of illegal drugs is unacceptable. |
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http://www.canada.com/national/features/decisioncanada/story_05.html?id=135e9983-3c42-42e6-83dc-e71c05150925
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| | Jacobs Super Patented Brain Thoughts » Save the Safe Injection site; Crack down on Violent Crime instead |
| | I urge Prime Minister Harper to consider the positive experiences of Germany, Switzerland and especially Holland in their more successful response to drug crimes. | | | The site has been a resounding success, leading people into treatment, slowing the spread of HIV and Hepatitis, saving lives by preventing overdoses and above all, it has not led to any increase in drug use. | | | Imagine how much safer our streets would be if Drug Addicts were in their own, safe area, getting their drugs from a nurse, not stealing a car to pay a dealer. |
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http://huntershack.org/nucleus/index.php?itemid=261
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| | Safe injection site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Safe injection sites are places for intravenous injectors of illegal drugs to use their drugs in a controlled and monitored environment. | | | Opponents state that sites send the message that the government promotes illegal drug use, and that the sites themselves are unnecessary, costly, and contribute to crime in the area which they are situated. | | | Proponents argue that these spaces save lives and improve hygiene for injecting drug users and act as a harm reduction strategy for the community overall by reducing the overdose factor, and prevalence of blood-borne diseases. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_injection_site
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