{"id":17312,"date":"2018-11-22T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=17312"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:17:55","slug":"statement-canada-must-adopt-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-drug-policy","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-canada-must-adopt-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-drug-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Canada Must Adopt a Human Rights-Based Approach to Drug Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"November 22, 2018 \u2013 We, the undersigned, believe that Canada must commit to reducing the harms caused by its current drug laws. In response to Health Canada\u2019s request for input on how to strengthen the federal government\u2019s approach to substance use issues through the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy (CDSS), our organizations are calling upon the government to adopt a human rights\u2013based approach to drug policy, which requires (1) decriminalizing all drugs for personal use and (2) scaling up access to health, harm reduction and social support services for people who use drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"11-22-18_CDSS-Statement_FINAL_EN.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/17308\/?tmstv=1776403485\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 2018 \u2013 We, the undersigned, believe that Canada must commit to reducing the harms caused by its current drug laws. In response to Health Canada\u2019s request for input on how to strengthen the federal government\u2019s approach to substance use issues through the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy (CDSS), our organizations are calling upon &#8230; <a title=\"Statement: Canada Must Adopt a Human Rights-Based Approach to Drug Policy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-canada-must-adopt-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-drug-policy\/\" aria-label=\"More on Statement: Canada Must Adopt a Human Rights-Based Approach to Drug Policy\">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-17312","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\/17312","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17313,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17312\/revisions\/17313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=17312"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=17312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}