In recent years, the Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY) phenomenon has become increasingly prevalent with regard to harm reduction sites, addiction treatment facilities and their clients.
According to extensive research done on harm reduction, supervised injection sites positively impact public health and safety, and reduce overdose deaths and behaviours that cause HIV and Hepatitis C, like sharing injection supplies.
The advocates THUMP spoke to all said they find many organizers are hesitant to adopt progressive harm reduction measures on-site because they're concerned they will face legal or financial consequences related to the RAVE Act.
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They'll be doing the same at Manchester's Albert Hall, and giving quarterly on-site harm reduction advice at Fabric, where they have been training up management to deliver in-house harm reduction welfare.
Users and activists self trained to become wound care experts and treated soft tissue infections on site at harm reduction programs.
Party drug users appeared to be particularly receptive to harm reduction measures, such as on-site emergency staff, pill testing and the availability of cool water, and to prevention of drug use provided via counseling.
On Philpott's agenda: legal marijuana, safe injection sites, and harm reduction policies that have been shunned by many of the other nations that will be around the table.
Harm reduction measures, like offering on-site monitoring and medical care to attendees who take drugs or offering drug checking kits to ensure users don't consume tainted substances, have been largely discouraged by the law.
Last year, the former Conservative government passed Bill C-2, a piece of legislation that made it difficult for new harm reduction facilities like safe injection sites to open by forcing them to obtain the approval from both medical authorities and the police.
