Health Canada Decision to Allow Prescription Heroin Will Save Lives, Pivot …

Published September 25, 2013

Health Canada decision to allow prescription heroin will save lives, Pivot …

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Pivot, which represents 22 study participants and the B.C. Association of People on Methadone, said the landmark decision will allow some of the most marginalized and addicted patients — who have not responded to other treatments such as methadone …
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Vancouver's safe injection site celebrates 10 years of saving lives

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Last week, doctors at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that the government bill seems to ignore evidence from a decade of experience in Vancouver. "A large body of peer-reviewed research …
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