IPFS News Link • Canada
Canada has just approved prescription heroin
• washingtonpost.com By Alan FreemanThe move means that Crosstown, a trail-blazing clinic in Vancouver, will be able to expand its special heroin-maintenance program, in which addicts come in as many as three times a day and receive prescribed injections of legally obtained heroin from a nurse free. The program is the only one of its kind in Canada and the United States but is similar to the approach taken in eight European countries.
The move by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government last week is another step in reversing the policies of the previous government, run by Conservatives, and taking a less draconian approach to the fight against addiction and drug abuse.
See additional article http://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2016/2016-09-07/html/sor-dors239-eng.php
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