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B.C. addicts to challenge Ambrose’s heroin ban in court

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Insite, heroin, drug addiction, Providence Health Care, Dianne Doyle
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A group of five heroin addicts is taking the federal government to court over a controversial decision to remove prescription heroin from a drug access program.

 

Heroin Prescription Lawsuit Challenges Closure Of Federal Exemption

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addiction, heroin, SALOME, Providence Health Care, Insite, Dr. Scott MacDonald
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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.

B.C. health provider, patients file lawsuit over prescription heroin access

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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.


 

The politics of the heroin addict

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heroin, addiction, drugs, Naomi, SALOME, hydromorphone, David Byres, Providence Health Care, Insite
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If a society is judged by how its cares for its most vulnerable, we are basically faced with a test of what we are willing to try to help the most beleaguered. Consider the heroin addict.

Evidence trumps ideology over public health benefits of Insite

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It has been nearly 10 years since Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site opened and two years since the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously determined that it should remain open to protect public health.

Study Reveals Decline in HIV Cases in Vancouver Drug Addicts

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Harm reduction has resulted to seek a decline in illicit drug use. It has improved public safety as once Ground Zero for an HIV and overdose epidemic claimed many lives, according to a 15-year study of drug use in Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside.

Harper should embrace safe-injection sites: They’re the law-and-order option

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As an internal medicine physician who works in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and as a researcher who was responsible for the evaluation of Vancouver’s Insite supervised injecting facility, I have been confused by how entrenched the federal government’s opposition to safe-injection programs has become in recent days – despite the clear support of the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Medical Association. Read more. 

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