safe injection sites
Health advocates urge Liberals to remove barriers to new safe injection sites
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In February, the City of Victoria, B.C. wrote to federal Health Minister Jane Philpott seeking her advice on how to get an exemption to operate safe injection services in the city as part of its Strategic Plan for 2015-2018.
Conservative NIMBYism and class warfare: Why safe injection facilities need our support
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The Canadian Conservative Party's director of political operations, Jenni Byrne, does not believe those suffering with drug addiction deserve a second chance. On the contrary, she unapologetically supposes that heroin and cocaine users are better to shoot up on a mephitic street corner than within safe, clean and regulated injection sites.
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