needle exchange
Battling prison disease
Harm-reduction advocates say need-exchange efforts have lost ground
Failure to aid drug users drives HIV spread: study
By Kate Kelland, Reuters
Give Inmates Clean Needles

The lack of needles and the damage done
If needle exchange works in Canadian cities big and small, then why do we refuse to implement the practice in our prisons?Historic trauma in aboriginals boosts hepatitis C risk
The trauma of having a parent who was forced to attend a residential school is linked to higher rates of hepatitis C infection among aboriginal young people in B.C., new research suggests.
The research was part of the Cedar Project, a long-term collaborative research project focusing on HIV and hepatitis C infection in young aboriginal drug users in British Columbia.
The project aims to understand the relationship between historical trauma — such as having a parent or grandparent who attended a residential school — and vulnerability to blood-borne diseases.
Researchers had already linked a history of sexual abuse among the young group under study with having a parent who attended a residential school or was involved in the child welfare system.
Sites lauded as lifesavers
Drugs: Medical ethicist says safe injection locations 'brilliant' at preventing overdose deaths"People might debate whether Saint John needs one or not, but I would say there's no harm in having one," said Tim Christie, associate professor in bioethics at Dalhousie University and a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick Saint John.
"They're brilliant at preventing people from dying of overdose deaths. They're brilliant at linking people with other treatments."
In 2009, 18 substance abusers in Saint John died while on a waiting list for treatment, Christie said.
DRUG ABUSE IN PRISONS
Editorial, The Chronicle Herald (ChronicleHerald.ca)Push on for prison syringe program
By EVA HOARE, The Chronicle Herald