by CAA | Mar 8, 2024 The long-awaited report by former Police Commissioner Ken Lay into the possible location of another Safe injecting room for the CBD is now moot, having not seen the light of day. There is now overwhelming evidence that the purpose of the facility, Called MSIR, to care for drug addicts has failed, and […]
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The big question underlying a drug consumption room in Glasgow is why the Scottish government and health authorities do not invest more in resources to support drug users become drug-free rather than use drugs, Professor Neil McKeganey critiques. See also Fears grow that consumption rooms will lead to kids believing drugs are safe and Drug consumption rooms morally void.
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Vic-NSW Injecting Rooms – A Review View PDF “Injecting rooms are to health and recovery like Vaping is to the Quit campaign – both counter intuitive and counter-productive.” Overdoses – What’s Really Happening? Saving Lives – What Does the Evidence Say?
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A One-Pillar Stool Canada’s Drug Strategy is based on four pillars: prevention, enforcement, treatment and harm reduction. SCS sites speak to the issue of harm reduction. However, the way this multipronged approach is currently implemented in Alberta, harm reduction has taken precedence over the other three pillars. Often the Review Committee heard that treatment referrals
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REPORTER @jackpayn MAY 10, 2021 Dozens of people have been arrested for drug offences as part of police crackdown near Melbourne’s controversial safe injecting room. Victoria Police charged 16 people with drug trafficking and 14 people with drug possession in Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy during April. The arrests come after a turbulent past month for
Drug Free Australia: A formal complaint has been sent to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) citing overwhelming evidence that Australia’s two injecting rooms – one each in Sydney and Melbourne – are both tacitly aiding and abetting the local drug trade, significantly enriching drug dealers. The Sydney injecting room hosts overdose rates
March 2021|Media, Research Neil Mitchel of 3aw believes that the injecting room is “off the rails” and should be moved as it is “putting the lives of addicts ahead of the lives of residents and kids.” But what is more concerning is his interview with the Secretary of Victorian ambulance union Danny Hill. In Danny
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19 March 2021|Media Parents of pupils at a school near Richmond’s controversial injecting room were told not to use the main entrance on Thursday after a dead body was found outside. Mums and dads say they are “living in constant fear” and the suspected drug overdose is just the latest in a long list of crimes that
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Sept 1st 2020 the safe consumption site (Drug Injecting/Consumption Room) was closed in Lethbridge, Alberta. Since then, the OD mortalities have gone down.The latest numbers for Nov. are zero deaths in the city. This was claimed to be the busiest SCS in the world. The city for the first 11 months of 2020 is no longer in
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