tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Insite: Canada's landmark safe injecting program at risk"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Insite: Canada's landmark safe injecting program at risk | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Editorial Insite Canada s landmark safe injecting program at risk Ernest Drucker Open Access Address Montefiore Medical Centre 111 East 210 St. Bronx New York City 10467 USA Email Ernest Drucker - emdrucker@ Corresponding author Published 09 August 2006 Received 27 July 2006 Accepted 09 August 2006 Harm Reduction Journal 2006 3 24 doi l 477-7517-3-24 This article is available from http content 3 1 24 2006 Drucker 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. Abstract InSite is North Americas first supervised injection site and a landmark public heath initiative operating in Vancouver since 2003. The program is a vital component of that cities internationally recognized harm reduction approach to its serious problems with drugs crime homelessness and AIDS. InSite currently operates under a waiver of Federal rules that allow it to provide services as a research project. An extensive evaluation has produced very positive results for thousands of users. Normally such strong evidence documenting the successes of such a program and the medical and public health significance of these positive outcomes would be the basis for celebration and moves to expand the model and provide similar services elsewhere in Canada. Instead there is a distinct possibility that InSite will be closed by the newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Paul Harper - a conservative who has traveled to the US to visit George WQ Bush and come back antagonistic to harm reduction in all its forms. Because InSites federal waiver is expiring and up for renewal in September the fear is that Mr. Harpers will not renew the approval and that the program will be forced to close .