{"id":15909,"date":"2017-05-15T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=15909"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:09:12","slug":"canada-needs-action-now-top-priorities-in-harm-reduction-and-drug-policy-reform","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/canada-needs-action-now-top-priorities-in-harm-reduction-and-drug-policy-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Needs Action Now:  Top Priorities in Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>TORONTO, May 15, 2017<\/b> \u2014 Today scientists, medical professionals, policy makers, activists and people who use drugs are gathering in Montr\u00e9al for the 25th\u00a0Harm Reduction International Conference 2017 (HR17). Meanwhile the opioid crisis rages on and, even as Canada takes an important step forward by legalizing and regulating cannabis, outdated prohibitionist drug policies continues to kill in this country. The world is looking to Canada to show leadership and replace criminalization with drug policy that is rooted in harm reduction principles, human rights standards and scientific evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Canada Needs Action Now:  Top Priorities in Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/15903\/?tmstv=1776694883\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, May 15, 2017 \u2014 Today scientists, medical professionals, policy makers, activists and people who use drugs are gathering in Montr\u00e9al for the 25th\u00a0Harm Reduction International Conference 2017 (HR17). Meanwhile the opioid crisis rages on and, even as Canada takes an important step forward by legalizing and regulating cannabis, outdated prohibitionist drug policies continues to &#8230; <a title=\"Canada Needs Action Now:  Top Priorities in Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/canada-needs-action-now-top-priorities-in-harm-reduction-and-drug-policy-reform\/\" aria-label=\"More on Canada Needs Action Now:  Top Priorities in Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform\">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-15909","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\/15909","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21574,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15909\/revisions\/21574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=15909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}