Publication Topic : Drug Policy
Nothing About Us Without Us – Greater, Meaningful Involvement of People Who Use Illegal Drugs: A Public Health, Ethical, and Human Rights Imperative (Canadian edition)
This report examines — from an international perspective — why it is important to increase meaningful involvement of people who use illegal drugs in the response to HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), and how this can be done.
Letter to Vancouver Mayor-elect Sam Sullivan re: Insite
“Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection facility, is an essential harm reduction element of Vancouver’s “four-pillar” drug strategy. I am writing to you to seek your support for maintaining Insite as a harm reduction service and not allowing the Vancouver Police Department to turn it into a law enforcement tool…”
Harm Reduction, HIV/AIDS, and the Human Rights Challenge to Global Drug Control Policy – Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2005
The global HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the role of unsafe drug injection as one of its principal drivers, have added to the list of harms associated with unsafe drug use. HIV/AIDS has highlighted ways in which prohibitionist drug policy causes or contributes to such harms and focused attention on the international regime of illicit drug control. … Read more
Prisoners Who Inject Drugs: Public Health and Human Rights Imperatives – Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2005
This article examines the human rights and public health implications of injection drug use in prisons with a specific focus on HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) viruses. The authors argue that prisoners who inject drugs have a right to access harm reduction measures — those that reduce the harmful consequences of drug use without necessarily … Read more
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 10(2) August 2005
FEATURES The criminalization of HIV transmission in England and Wales: questions of law and policy CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS HIV disclosure no longer required on application form for temporary resident visa Safer tattooing piloted in six federal prisons Ottawa: City Council approves distribution of crack kits Bill to export generic drugs comes into force Recommendations published concerning … Read more
Injection Drug Use and HIV/AIDS
This is a series of 13 info sheets on legal and ethical issues related to injection drug use and HIV/AIDS. Injection Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Canada: The Facts The Current Legal Status of Drugs in Canada International Law: Drug Control and Human Rights Drug Use and the Provision of Health & Social Services Treatment … Read more