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Conservative Senator Talks Harm Reduction

First, for those who have not seen it Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter Foundation has an important op-ed in the Vancouver Sun titled Attention Ottawa: Insite is a health care service.
More intriguing Safe Games 2010 and the Keeping the Door Open Society (which, for full disclosure, I sit on the board of) [...]

Posted 18 February 2010 | David Eaves § Insite § canadian politics § public policy § vancouver ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Articles I’m Digesting 15/12/2009

Here are some pieces I’ve been reading of late:
You Can’t Handle the Truth by Mark Pothier in the Boston Globe
A great piece about how the classification of drugs used by most Western countries is completely divorced from how much harm those drugs cause. This isn’t surprising, but as the evidence begins to mount regarding which [...]

Posted 15 December 2009 | David Eaves § commentary § cool links § reviews ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Emerging Neo-Progressive Issues: Drug Policy

As many of you know Taylor and I wrote a piece on what we termed neo-progressivism in last September’s Literary Review of Canada.
Since then we’ve keep our eye out for other discussions where we think neo-progressives are gaining traction in the public discourse. Some of the indicators we looking for are policies where:

The conversation is [...]

Posted 05 May 2009 | David Eaves § commentary § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Wente’s disgraceful piece on Insite and harm reduction

Last Saturday Margaret Wente wrote this disgraceful piece on harm reduction in Vancouver.
In short, what is written is a compilation of anecdotal statements that ignore the actual research and science that has measured Insite’s positive impact. A quote from a sergeant who may or may not have an axe to grind is apparently worth [...]

Posted 15 July 2008 | David Eaves § Insite § media § vancouver ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

For those interested in a sensible drug policy… sign here.

Here is an opportunity to sign the resolution coming out of the Community Forum on the National Anti-Drug Strategy held in Toronto on March 26th.
Signatures generated at the Forum and from the on-line version total over 1600, from people across Canada.  We will be presenting the resolution to Parliament soon, so please add your signature asap, if you haven’t [...]

Posted 23 April 2008 | David Eaves § Insite ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

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