tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Review of "In the Eye of the Needle: Diary of a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre" by Ingrid van Beek Allen & Unwin 2004"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Review of "In the Eye of the Needle: Diary of a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre" by Ingrid van Beek Allen & Unwin 2004 | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Book review Open Access Review of In the Eye of the Needle Diary of a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre by Ingrid van Beek Allen Unwin 2004 Allan Clear Address Executive Director Harm Reduction Coalition 22 West 27th Street 5th Fl New York NY 10001 USA Email Allan Clear - clear@ Corresponding author Published 15 September 2005 Received 12 July 2005 Accepted 15 September 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005 2 15 doi 1477-7517-2-15 This article is available from http content 2 1 15 2005 Clear licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. However they are labeled there are a couple of dozen safe injection facilities safe injection rooms safe injection spaces drug consumption rooms or medically supervised injecting centres around the globe. The most recent have appeared in Vancouver Canada and the most scrutinized is in Sydney Australia. Dr. Ingrid Van Beek has diarized the early history of Sydney s centre in her book In the Eye of the Needle . This book is much more than the story of the medically supervised injection center. The lessons imparted here are invaluable for everyone working with drug users and have universal application. Van Beek skillfully weaves several different strands throughout the book including the mechanics of opening and running the center the emotional toll it takes on staff the humanity of the drug users the center serves the need of the clients and the scrutiny that an institution comes under for being deemed controversial . Ultimately this book is about how compassion healthcare dignity and human rights can be obtained for drug users. Medically supervised injection centres are controlled environments aimed .