Dr. Scott MacDonald

B.C. heroin addicts launch Charter challenge against federal drug ban

Posted on Sat, Nov 16, 2013 - 8:40pm

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Five Vancouver-based heroin addicts, along with Pivot Legal Society and Providence Health Care, are launching a constitutional challenge against the federal government’s decision to remove prescription heroin from a drug access program.

Heroin Prescription Lawsuit Challenges Closure Of Federal Exemption

Posted on Sat, Nov 16, 2013 - 8:33pm

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For decades, Larry Love's daily life was consumed by heroin. Find it. Inject it. Repeat. That cycle, he said, was broken last year when he enrolled in a radical clinical trial in Vancouver evaluating the use of prescription heroin, seen as the treatment of last resort for severely addicted people for whom other therapy, such as methadone or detox, have failed.