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In November, we saw nearly 500 EMS opioid-related calls in Edmonton alone. A post on the #ethics of #opioidpoisoning and #harmreduction from Dr. Cheryl Mack
This week the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta will be hearing a critical case dealing with supervised consumption sites. The case is about regulations that this provincial government has enacted that create barriers to receiving services in safer, supervised environments.
While we wait for the courts to assess the legality of these barriers; the ethics of these barriers is already clear. The time is now to reduce barriers to supervised consumption sites.
An #opioidpoisoning and #harmreduction thread from Dr. Stan Houston:
In my job as an Infectious Disease and HIV doctor I have been involved in the development of Harm Reduction programs in Edmonton since the early 1990’s
In my job as an Infectious Disease and HIV doctor I have been involved in the development of Harm Reduction programs in Edmonton since the early 1990’s
Back in the 90s when HIV was still a pretty new problem and effective treatment was very new, the Alberta government took the enlightened decision to provide HIV treatment to all Albertans who needed it.
Our patients are hardly ever dying of HIV or hepatitis C these days. But all those advances in prevention and treatment are now being wiped out by opiate poisoning deaths.
