Observers attending international drug control
negotiations at the UN Commission for Narcotic Drugs last week in Vienna
say Canadian negotiators helped block the inclusion of life-saving harm
reduction health strategies within future international drug policies.
"It was clear that the delegation's hands were tied," said Don MacPherson, director of the
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
and adjunct professor in the faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser
University. "Our diplomatic delegation had instructions from Ottawa to
not mention harm reduction and to get the term deleted from the
statement."
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