Two recent articles asked for an eval-uation of whether the European experience with safe
injecting rooms can be replicated in Canada. 1, 2 We feel that before Canada's first “safe …

What evidence do Thomas Kerr and Anita Palepu have for their supposition that “staff...
better able to encourage people to seek help, to discuss health concerns with them and to …

Commentary Commentaire disease transmission, overdoses and public nuisance
associated with injection drug use; to improve the general health of IDUs; and to increase …

Background: In several European countries safer injecting rooms have reduced the public
disorder and health-related problems of injection drug use. We explored factors associated …

When one thinks of current epidemics, surely HIV/AIDS is one of the first to come to mind.
Although one perhaps thinks of it as mostly an epidemic associated with developing …

ABSTRACT Injection Drug Users (IDU) represent less than 1% of Canada's total population.
Nevertheless, they bare a disproportionate burden of disease with health and law …

As. 125,000 major evidenced public injection through health drug and numerous users
order (IDUs) problem studies-in approximately in recent Canada. 1" 4 years, The one …

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered Canada's federal Minister
of Health to grant Insite, North America's irst supervised injection site, an extended …

“We will continue to support treatment and recovery programs that get addicts off drugs and
help them recover drug-free lives,” she said. She also chastised Liberal Leader Justin …

Safe injection sites have become the next battlefield in the conflict between state and federal
drug laws. A safe injection site is a place where injection drug users can self-administer …