Vancouver clinic opens.VANCOUVER -- Vancouver's controversial drug injection clinic for heroin users officially opened and will be receiving people who inject their drugs. The clinic has authorization and that the Criminal Code will not apply at the site. At the site heroin users will receive clean needles and other paraphanelia and have medical personal on standby in case of any reaction. The clinic is project to determine if the death rate and spread of HIV/Alas and Hepatitis C Hepatitis C Definition Hepatitis C is a form of liver inflammation that causes primarily a long-lasting (chronic) disease. Acute (newly developed) hepatitis C is rarely observed as the early disease is generally quite mild. can be reduced. Vancouver has Canada's largest concentration persons are addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. to drugs. Will those who inject use it? Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (www.aidslaw.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research, legal and policy analysis, education, and community mobilization. researcher Thomas Kerr For the Australian landscape architect, see . Thomas Kerr (Born August 30 1962 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian illustrator. Educated at the Alberta College of Art and Design and The School of Visual Arts. has doubts. His studies indicate that strict Health Canada Health Canada (French: Santé Canada) is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for national public health. Health Canada's goal is to improve Canadian life by improving Canadian longevity, lifestyle and use of public healthcare. guidelines that require addicts to register, and not help others to shoot up, along with a beefed-up police presence at the site will also deter drug users. Surveying 400 addicts, Kerr reports that 92 per cent said they would use the safe injection site. But when they were advised of the Health Canada rules, that number dropped to 31 percent--and down to 22 per cent when told of the police presence. Kerr says need the rules need to be more flexible and the police should stay away. A report in the Canadian Medical Journal also claims that the strict rules will dissuade TO DISSUADE, crim. law. To induce a person not to do an act. 2. To dissuade a witness from giving evidence against a person indicted, is an indictable offence at common law. Hawk. B. 1, c. 2 1, s. 1 5. some from entering the clinic. The clinic is supported by three levels of government. Open 18 hours a day, 800 users are expected to enter each day. It will be staffed by 40 physicians, nurses and other medical personnel. Health Canada is providing $1.5 million for researchers who will track the users. Police will be present to prevent drug dealers from gathering in the area. Establishing the clinic came after years of controversy was an important issue in the recent municipal election. Former Coronor Larry Campbell Larry W. Campbell, MBA (born February 28 1948, in Brantford, Ontario) is the former Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a Member of the Canadian Senate. Election a staunch advocate of the clinic was elected mayor along with a supportive council. A second clinic is expected to open in 2004. Campbell is now advocating for more treatment programs and a tougher approach to drug dealers. U.S. drug war officials are unhappy with the Vancouver site and are calling it "state-sponsored personal suicide." Similiar clinics exist in the Netherlands and Switzerland. |
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