Straight Talk about Harm Reduction: An Open Letter to Margaret Wente

The following was written by Dr Bruce Alexander and presented as a keynote address to a meeting of the Four Pillars Coalition on 3 October 2008 at the Segal Centre in Vancouver. It is a response to a series of...

Past Tense: Harm Reduction, '50s Style

In the recent hullabaloo over Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site for drug users, critics of the facility are doing their best to create the impression that harm reduction is the recent product of radicals....

thetyee.ca The Conversion of George Chow

Before joining Jim Green, he led Chinatown's attack on 'harm reduction'.The single biggest voting demographic in Vancouver is its Chinese-Canadian community. This segment-typically 25 to 30 percent of the city's...

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