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...
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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....
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I recently heard a senior city planner say that economic decline in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside preceded the drug problem now associated with the area. The point he was making was valid – that the drug trade...
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Truemors
Past Tense: Harm Reduction, '50s Style