Author Topic: Safe Injection Sites in Ontario and the Idea of 'Evidence'  (Read 2772 times)

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The devil is in the details: A concern regarding such facilities is that they may lessen the likelihood that injection-drug users will seek addiction-treatment services.

You are quoting a letter to the editor that is quoting others concerns about a clinic that open two and half years earlier and was the first of its kind in North America.

One of those others is Dr. Andrea Barthwell (working for George Bush administration) who thinks methadone clinics or residential care are a superior option. She stated that about 2 months after the clinic in Vancouver opened, and it dosn't appear that she even visited the clinic. I would be very hard pressed to recommend a methadone clinic. Yes residential care is superior, we have already discussed that before and are well aware of the cost and success rate. The other was John Walters, director of the US National Drug Control Policy (not quite sure what that organization is part of), and I doubt he visited either.

You are right, the devil is in the details.
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