Items tagged with drug consumption rooms and canada
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| A tale of two public health crises — science is being used to stem coronavirus but not opioid deaths [13.03.2021] | As one public health emergency sees policymakers around the world turn to the best available science to stem its tide, another deadly crisis rages on ... |
| As BC’s overdose crisis deepens, Province defends efforts [02.03.2021] | At least 165 more British Columbians died of illicit drug overdoses in the first month of 2021, more than double the number of deaths recorded last J ... |
| Overdoses are killing more people in Western Canada than COVID-19. B.C. has a bold new plan [25.09.2020] | Canada’s other epidemic, the opioids overdose crisis, is more deadly than ever this year. Deaths in British Columbia hit new highs over the spring, i ... |
| Amid spike in opioid overdoses, momentum for reform wavers [31.08.2020] | U.S. states and cities are seeing increases in opioid-related overdose deaths A paper issued by the American Medical Association this summer found th ... |
| Supervised consumption sites save Alberta money: University of Calgary study [25.06.2020] | A study from the University of Calgary has concluded the Calgary supervised consumption site is saving the province money. The study looked at the co ... |
| Why overdose deaths have fallen here - despite more overdose [14.01.2020] | Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times every day, an operator answers o ... |
| Tainted drugs are fuelling Thunder Bay's opioid deaths, say advocates. They want a safe supply to fight it [08.01.2020] | Inside the only supervised injection site in Thunder Bay, Ont., nurse practitioner Josh Fraser has reversed so many opioid overdoses that he says the ... |
| Canada’s opioid crisis: The people and communities fighting for change and finding solutions [23.12.2019] | The drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in Canada, with no communities spared. Now, many are banding together to speak up and find solutions. ... |
| Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it [29.09.2019] | A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, ... |
| Without safe injection sites, more opioid users will die [23.05.2019] | Ontario is undoubtedly in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. From January to September 2018, an incredible 1,031 Ontarians died of an overdose. ... |
| Demand for supervised injection sites steady as funding decisions loom [11.03.2019] | As toxic and often deadly fentanyl began popping up in the city's illicit drug supply fatal overdoses surged. Despite strong opposition, four supervi ... |
| Safer opioids actively being reviewed for epidemic: chief public health officer [12.12.2018] | Public health officials across Canada are seriously considering increasing the supply of safer opioids to quell a crisis that newly released data sho ... |
| Watchful eyes: At peer-run injection sites, drug users help each other stay safe [13.07.2018] | People who use injection drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia, can do so, if they choose, under the watchful eyes of someone trained to help them if ... |
| Supervised injection sites could stop untold opioid-related deaths [01.12.2017] | In addition to the legal issues, the heavy stigma around heroin and other opioids driving the nation's overdose crisis can push individuals into the ... |
| Ottawa approves temporary overdose-prevention sites in bid to address opioid crisis [16.11.2017] | Ottawa will let provinces and territories open temporary sites for drug-overdose prevention while their applications for permanent facilities are pro ... |
| Toronto's first permanent supervised injection site opens downtown [08.11.2017] | Toronto's first sanctioned, permanent supervised injection site officially opened its doors. The site, located inside The Works at 277 Victoria St., ... |
| Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| Toronto's guerrilla war on drug overdoses [15.09.2017] | Nurses and volunteers watch over drug users at the Toronto's first pop-up supervised drug-use site. In the month since the site started operating in ... |
| The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users looks back on 20 years fighting for human rights [04.09.2017] | In the late summer of 1997, a poster with a message aimed at drug users appeared on electrical poles around the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. “Meet ... |
| Ottawa rejects expert calls to decriminalize illegal opioids [28.08.2017] | Ottawa says it has no plans to consider decriminalizing hard drugs, such as heroin, despite calls from local politicians, health officials and expert ... |
| Health Canada approves supervised consumption of oral and intra-nasal substances at two Surrey sites [27.06.2017] | Health Canada approved Fraser Health’s request to provide supervised consumption of oral and intra-nasal substances — the first time such an exemptio ... |
| Montreal opens first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America [19.06.2017] | Montreal has launched the first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America, as part of a package of services aimed at fighting back against ... |
| Canada’s mayors call for speedy approval of proposals to address overdose crisis [25.05.2017] | Canada’s big-city mayors are calling for the expedited approval of new supervised drug-consumption sites, improved data collection and the expansion ... |
| Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis [21.05.2017] | Canada’s government has made it easier to open supervised drug injection sites across the country, offering communities a lifeline as they battle an ... |
| Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms' [09.01.2017] | Britain could soon see its first "fix room" for drug users - a safe space where addicts can take illegal narcotics under medical supervision. But who ... |
| Ottawa moves to facilitate more injection sites as death toll climbs [09.12.2016] | Ottawa will introduce a bill that is expected to reduce barriers to opening and operating supervised drug-consumption sites in Canada. The move come ... |
| Vancouver’s safer injection services stalled as overdose death toll mounts [30.09.2016] | On Sept. 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first legally authorized safer injection site. ... |
| Safe injection clinic says 90% of clients' heroin had dangerous drug additive [01.09.2016] | North America’s only supervised injection site has found that 90% of its clients’ heroin contained the powerful synthetic fentanyl. Vancouver’s Insit ... |
| Seattle’s potential solution for heroin epidemic: Places for legal drug use [24.08.2016] | A task force established to combat a heroin epidemic in the Seattle metropolitan area has endorsed a strategy of establishing places where addicts wo ... |
| Toronto board of health approves supervised injection sites [03.07.2016] | The stories of Toronto residents who died of overdoses on Toronto streets were heard for hours by board of health members, told by their friends, fam ... |
| Street opioids are getting deadlier. Overseeing drug use can reduce deaths [25.04.2016] | As health officials battle increasing mortality associated with heroin and prescription opioids, an even more dangerous group of street drugs has app ... |
| Canadian official causes stir with ‘progressive’ speech at UN narcotics conference [15.03.2016] | The Liberal government used its first foray into the global anti-narcotics arena this week to signal a clear shift away from the war-on-drugs philoso ... |
| Safe-injection sites are cost-effective to health system: study [29.11.2015] | A new Canadian study about safe-injection sites for intravenous drug users concludes that they are cost-effective to the health-care system — an argu ... |
| Pot legalization looks certain for Canada [20.10.2015] | Carrying a torch for marijuana legalization, the Liberal Party of Canada emerged like a phoenix from parliamentary election to an absolute majority i ... |
| Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy [26.02.2015] | Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement about the failures of Canada's drug policy is mostly on point. It’s just the last bit he gets wrong: “I thi ... |
| Give back safe smoking room to Vancouver crack users, study says [09.02.2015] | For three years, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users’ (VANDU) operated an unsanctioned, peer-run “safer smoking room” for crack users in a small ... |
| Report calls for decriminalizing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs [23.05.2013] | The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle dr ... |
| Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting [16.01.2013] | Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about Insite, the only legally-operating injecting facility in North ... |
| U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed [30.09.2011] | A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to ... |
| B.C. drug injection clinic can stay open, Supreme Court rules [30.09.2011] | The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to supervised drug injection clinics across the country in a landmark decision that ordered the feder ... |
| Insite’s next battle: supervised inhalation [14.05.2011] | Insite’s operators have twice applied for a federal health exemption to allow crack cocaine smokers to use the room – the request was rejected in 200 ... |
| No evidence to contradict studies that supervised drug injections save addicts’ lives [12.05.2011] | Under tough judicial grilling, the Harper government conceded it had no evidence to counter scientific research showing supervised drug injections sa ... |
| Former mayors speak out for Insite [11.05.2011] | Divided by politics but united by drug policy, five former Vancouver mayors have issued a last-minute plea to Ottawa to drop its appeal of earlier co ... |
| Globe editorial: Supervised injection for the sake of public health [11.05.2011] | Vancouver’s supervised drug-injection clinic, Insite, saves lives and prevents human misery. Providing addicts with a safe, sterile place to inject h ... |
| The arguments for and against Vancouver’s supervised injection site [11.05.2011] | When the Supreme Court of Canada convenes to consider Vancouver’s supervised injection site, it will hear detailed arguments that hinge on the fine p ... |
| It’s time to inject some Insite into this campaign [19.04.2011] | For all the thunderous warnings about Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda, there has been remarkably little talk in this election about one of the few rea ... |
| Dying for a change on safe-injection site [18.04.2011] | A health-care facility that saves lives and prevents the transmission of deadly diseases should be hailed as an innovative advancement in medical car ... |
| Vancouver's safe injection site cuts overdose deaths [18.04.2011] | The number of drug-overdose deaths on Vancouver’s notorious downtown Eastside fell sharply after the opening of a safe injection site, new research s ... |
| Safe injection site still not safe [30.05.2008] | Ignoring all the scientific evidence, Canada Health Minister Tony Clement will move to close Canada's only sanctioned safe-injection site, announcing ... |
| Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent [28.05.2008] | In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North Amer ... |
| “I inject less as I have easier access to pipes” [30.04.2007] | Among injection drug users (IDUs) in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, prevalence rates of HIV (20.6 percent) and hepatitis C HCV (75.8 percent) are amo ... |
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