Treating With Pharmaceutical Grade Heroin the Best Option
Treating with pharmaceutical grade heroin the best option
By Martin Schechter, Vancouver Sun October 18, 2013. Tweet. On Oct. 3, Rona Ambrose, Canada's Minister of Health, announced she was shutting the door on a compassionate access program that would have provided diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient in …
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Supervised injection sites are sensible health care interventions
We celebrated this ten year anniversary in Vancouver because this milestone did not come easily; and yet in the time that it's been open over 2 Million injections have taken place under the watchful helpful eyes of the nursing and support staff. Over …
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While common in Europe, Canada has only one supervised drug injection facility in Vancouver. Its opening pitted health officials against police, and the Harper government against the Supreme Court. It was the court that in 2011 ordered Harper to …
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