{"id":729,"date":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:32:06","slug":"closed-to-reason-time-for-accountability-for-the-international-narcotic-control-board-commentary-in-harm-reduction-journal-2007-413","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/closed-to-reason-time-for-accountability-for-the-international-narcotic-control-board-commentary-in-harm-reduction-journal-2007-413\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed to reason: time for accountability for the International Narcotic Control Board &#8211; Commentary in Harm Reduction Journal, 2007, 4:13"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;For more than two decades, the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) has tried to stop harm reduction and its HIV prevention programs. This posture is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of their responsibilities and of drug addiction itself \u2014 i.e. as a public health and clinical care matter made criminal by decree. A recent focal point for the Board&#8217;s action has been rejecting the use of supervised injection facilities to reduce morbidity and mortality of drug injectors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]e are very pleased to call our readers&#8217; attention to a recent report [Closed to Reason: The International Narcotics Control Board and HIV\/AIDS] produced by the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network and the International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD) joined by former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV\/AIDS in Africa, the respected Canadian statesman Stephen Lewis.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!-- Dan Small, Ernest Drucker --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Closed to reason: time for accountability for the International Narcotic Control Board \u2013 Commentary in Harm Reduction Journal, 2007, 4:13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/11128\/?tmstv=1776673224\" 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":[176],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-729","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-journal-articles","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/729","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21014,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/729\/revisions\/21014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}