Needle exchange

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Abbotsford to revisit idea of needle exchange site The Mayor of Abbotsford feels it's time to take a cue from Vancouver and get a needle exchange... 13 March 2012
Agassiz to get needle exchange Drug users in Agassiz will soon have access to clean needles and drug paraphernalia following the... 1 September 2011
Commons committee hears call for prison needle exchanges In the wake of the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling allowing Vancouver's safe-injection site... 25 October 2011
Harper government misguided in its tough-on-crime approach Canada's prison ombudsman gave up on free needle exchanges this week, and a senior justice adviser... 15 December 2011
Health authority weighs adding more supervised injection sites Vancouver Coastal Health is looking at offering supervised injection services for heroin addicts at... 19 January 2012
HIV and human rights in Canada: Top five issues on World AIDS Day 2011 On World AIDS Day, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network would like to draw your attention to some of... 6 December 2011
How Vancouver's war on drugs began When William Lyon Mackenzie King came to Vancouver in the spring of 1908, he didn't come to start... 22 March 2012
In Iran, a brotherhood of doctors and patients Few doctors anywhere in the world have done their country a greater service than the Iranian... 21 June 2011
Needle exchange needed A smarter community would not have gone without a fixed needle exchange for three years. The... 3 June 2011
Needles linked to exchanges Port Coquitlam bylaw officials believe a new needle-exchange program launched by the Fraser Health... 21 December 2011
Pivot Legal Society explores Charter challenge against Abbotsford's harm reduction ban The City of Abbotsford is facing a potential legal challenge to its anti-harm reduction bylaw on... 16 March 2012
Provincial HIV/AIDs advocates call on Abbotsford to repeal anti-harm reduction bylaw The City of Abbotsford is drawing fire yet again for its antagonistic stance around harm reduction... 8 March 2012
Removing needles from correctional settings Until correctional administrators can guarantee a totally drug-free environment, they need to... 24 June 2011
US report: HIV rate down in needle-drug users There's some good news from the AIDS front: fewer needle drug users are testing positive for HIV.... 2 March 2012
Vancouver mayor won’t lobby for more drug injection sites Mayor Gregor Robertson will not lead a charge to get more drug injection sites open in the city... 18 October 2011
Watchdog abandons campaign for needle exchange in prisons Canada’s corrections watchdog is giving up on his push for needle-exchange sites in prisons, saying... 9 December 2011
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