{"id":15268,"date":"2016-12-12T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:09:12","slug":"bill-c-37-a-welcome-step-forward-for-life-saving-supervised-consumption-sites-and-sound-drug-policy-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/bill-c-37-a-welcome-step-forward-for-life-saving-supervised-consumption-sites-and-sound-drug-policy-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill C-37 a welcome step forward for life-saving supervised consumption sites and sound drug policy in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>TORONTO, December 12, 2016<\/strong> \u2014 The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network welcomes the introduction of Bill C-37, which \u2013 at long last \u2013 signals a real turning point in Canada\u2019s drug policy, emphasizing evidence, public health and human rights above fear, stigma and misinformation. We are heartened that the federal government is taking this much-needed action to combat the opioid overdose crisis in our country, which continues to claim lives at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"BILL C-37 A WELCOME STEP FORWARD FOR LIFE-SAVING SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITES AND SOUND DRUG POLICY IN CANADA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/15265\/?tmstv=1776706069\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, December 12, 2016 \u2014 The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network welcomes the introduction of Bill C-37, which \u2013 at long last \u2013 signals a real turning point in Canada\u2019s drug policy, emphasizing evidence, public health and human rights above fear, stigma and misinformation. We are heartened that the federal government is taking this much-needed action &#8230; <a title=\"Bill C-37 a welcome step forward for life-saving supervised consumption sites and sound drug policy in Canada\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/bill-c-37-a-welcome-step-forward-for-life-saving-supervised-consumption-sites-and-sound-drug-policy-in-canada\/\" aria-label=\"More on Bill C-37 a welcome step forward for life-saving supervised consumption sites and sound drug policy in Canada\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-15268","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21620,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15268\/revisions\/21620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=15268"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=15268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}