{"id":693,"date":"2007-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:32:07","slug":"tories-addiction-plan-misses-mark-toronto-star-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/tories-addiction-plan-misses-mark-toronto-star-letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories&#8217; addiction plan misses mark &#8211; Toronto Star letter to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;The new national anti-drug strategy announced in the federal budget ignores the impressive body of scientific evidence on the value of investing in harm reduction and alternatives to criminal prosecution for non-violent drug offences. The new strategy funds law enforcement, prevention and treatment programs \u2014 three of the four so-called &#8220;pillars&#8221; common in many drug strategies. But the fourth pillar, harm reduction \u2014 which includes needle exchanges, opiate substitution therapy programs and safe-injection facilities \u2013 has been eliminated.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!-- national anti-drug strategy, federal budget, needle exchange, opiate substitution therapy, safe-injection facilities, Insite, HIV\/AIDS Policy and Law Review, Leon Mar --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Tories\u2019 addiction plan misses mark \u2013 Toronto Star letter to the editor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/11082\/?tmstv=1777467202\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-693","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20984,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/693\/revisions\/20984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}