{"id":8951,"date":"2015-09-30T13:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:45:22","slug":"drug-policy-and-harm-reduction","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/drug-policy-and-harm-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug policy and harm reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"Harm reduction reflects widespread consensus among a\u00a0range of government officials, health care professionals,\u00a0police and law enforcement agencies, academics and nongovernmental\u00a0organizations. Yet in 2007, the Government\u00a0of Canada removed harm reduction as an official element\u00a0of Canada\u2019s federal drug strategy and implemented a more\u00a0punitive approach to drug policy. Once a relative leader in\u00a0progressive drug policy, Canada has also opposed harm\u00a0reduction within international forums as a key component\u00a0of global and national drug strategies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Drug Policy and Harm Reduction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/13437\/?tmstv=1775734423\" 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":[173],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-8951","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-briefing-papers","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/8951","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\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21527,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/8951\/revisions\/21527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}