EDITORIAL – Finally, an enlightened strategy on drug over-dose deaths

Posted on December 13, 2016 in Editorials // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger.

THE LAST BARRIERS to drug harm-reduction sites are falling, thanks to a drug-overdose crisis and some enlightened action by provincial and federal governments.

The federal Liberals announced Monday a new bill will eliminate 26 pre-conditions for “consumption” sites. Those pre-conditions have been so strict that for many years there was only one supervised-injection site — Insite in Vancouver — in all of Canada.

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