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One of the thematic threads holding together the 53rd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (the CND is the UN's global drug policy body) was the "debate" on "demand reduction." The latter term refers to how countries go about reducing domestic illicit drug demand and consumption. And there's no real "debate," just a series of statements read by each country's representatives.

In the wake of the release of a scathing report from international experts declaring their efforts to create a “drug free world” a failure, diplomats from 53 countries including Canada gathered in Vienna, Austria last weekend to plan the next campaign in the so-called war on drugs.

Insite, Vancouver’s controversial safe-injection site, is now facing further scrutiny following two public announcements from the Pivot Legal Society.

Prominent Canadian scientists are calling on the country's political leaders to end what they describe as the "politicization" and "mistreatment" of science.

The RCMP is defending its decision to commission reports that raised questions about Vancouver's safe drug injection site.

Today, Health Minister Tony Clement released an advisory panel's report on supervised-injection sites, and it echoes much of the research that has already been done.

Dr. Thomas Kerr is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. In his current role at the BC Centre, Dr. Kerr is a principal investigator of several large cohort studies involving injection drug users, HIV-positive individuals and street-involved youth.

The federal government's six-month extension to a supervised injection site in Vancouver is a stalling tactic unlikely to bolster Victoria's push for a similar research project, say local politicians.

Ottawa's six-month reprieve for Vancouver's safe injection site simply allows the government to shelve the issue until after a possible fall election, leaving a suffering community in limbo, supporters of the site said Tuesday.

The Harper government's refusal to support North America's only legal supervised drug-injection site is driven by ideology and politics - not research, two health scientists said Thursday after the release of a new report on the Vancouver facility.

The Harper government's refusal to support North America's only legal supervised drug-injection site is driven by ideology and politics -- not research, two health scientists said yesterday after the release of a new report on the Vancouver facility.

The federal Conservative government's refusal to support North America's only legal supervised injection site for drug addicts is driven by ideology and politics and not research, two health scientists said Thursday after the release of a new report on the facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.