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Harper’s anti-drug strategy gets a little less compassionate

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

25 July 2012
Despite Harper’s early emphasis on balance… the planning and priorities report tabled with the federal Treasury Board for the next five years reveals deep cuts in Health Canada’s budget for drug treatment—but hefty increases in budgets for drug enforcement by police and prosecutors… The government has done nothing to publicize the anti-drug policy’s second five-year phase, much less drawn attention to the apparent shift in funding priorities… So you now have programs that have proven their efficacy, but there are no resources to sustain them…

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RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

August 20, 2010
Last fall, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, after months of intense, private talks, agreed to face the media together to declare their agreement that research shows the “benefits” and “positive impacts” of supervised injection sites for intravenous drug users… For the RCMP, making such a statement would have been a turning point: the Mounties would have had to distance themselves from dubious studies, commissioned by the force itself, that were critical of Insite… The proposed joint media release was never issued.

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