Panel: emerging issues in Canada's drug policy--implications for HIV prevention and health promotion for people who use drugs.
This article contains summaries of the three presentations made during this panel. Carol Strike discusses various strategies that have been used to prevent HIV transmission among people who use drugs. Richard Elliott reviews the implications of the 2008 judgment by the British Columbia Supreme Court on Insite, the supervised injection facility in Vancouver. Finally, Senator Claude Nolin provides some observations on legislating in the area of drug law.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
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D002170:Canada; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007880:Legislation, Drug; D018671:Needle-Exchange Programs; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications*