{"id":784,"date":"2008-06-05T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:33:11","slug":"adrift-from-the-moorings-of-good-public-policy-ignoring-evidence-and-human-rights-international-journal-of-drug-policy-19-2008","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/adrift-from-the-moorings-of-good-public-policy-ignoring-evidence-and-human-rights-international-journal-of-drug-policy-19-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift from the moorings of good public policy: Ignoring evidence and human rights &#8211; International Journal of Drug Policy 19 (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"The approach of Canada&#8217;s Government to Insite, North America&#8217;s first safer injecting facility, is one manifestation of what appears to be the government&#8217;s broader hostility to both evidence and human rights in public policy, at least insofar as that policy involves the health of people who use illicit drugs. A number of observations are warranted in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>International Journal of Drug Policy<\/i> 19 (2008), 229\u2013230<br \/>\nDOI:10.1016\/j.drugpo.2008.02.010<br \/>\n<!-- Richard Elliott, SIF, Insite, Health Canada, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Adrift from the moorings of good public policy: Ignoring evidence and human rights \u2013 International Journal of Drug Policy 19 (2008)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/11460\/?tmstv=1776712413\" 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-784","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\/784","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\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21056,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/784\/revisions\/21056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}