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Science, not politics must decide fate of safe injection site: Doctors
    #7318689 - 08/21/07 05:00 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Science, not politics must decide fate of safe injection site: Doctors

Canadian Press
August 21, 2007 at 12:06 PM EDT

TORONTO — A group of 130 prominent doctors, scientists and public health professionals is calling on the federal government to use scientific evidence, not political ideology, when deciding whether to extend the life of Vancouver's safe injection site.

The group has endorsed a strongly worded commentary on the issue published by Open Medicine, an online medical journal.

In the commentary, Dr. Stephen Hwang says that if government refuses to accept the scientific evidence backing the Insite program it should be transparent about the basis for its objections.

Dr. Hwang says the health of the nation is placed in peril if leaders ignore crucial research findings simply because they run counter to a policy agenda driven by ideology or fixed beliefs.

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Dr. Hwang, a researcher in the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, says the federal government seems to be judging the safe injection site program by an entirely different standard than it would other health measures.

An exemption that allows the safe injection site to operate expires at the end of this year.

Signatories to the commentary include Dr. Robert Brunham, head of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control; Dr. Richard Lessard, Montreal's director of public health; and leading HIV-AIDS researcher Dr. Mark Wainberg.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070821.winsite0821/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home


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Re: Science, not politics must decide fate of safe injection site: Doctors [Re: lequebecfume]
    #7318750 - 08/21/07 05:24 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Do people really think that lessening the availability of needles decreases intravenous drug use among addicts- whilst having no effect on the spread of disease? Or, do they simply "not like them druggies?"

Its not like IV drug addicts are completly segregated from our society- they are part of it and mingle with non-IV users. Therefore, even if you don't care about IV drug users cuz "they bring it on themselves" you should still be concerned about clean needles, cuz disease spread will not be contained within the IV user population.

Besides, the health care costs associated w/ IV communicable diseases and infections are an economic strain on government resources apportioned for all of us.


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