Insite Update

Posted by Julie Burtinshaw Sep 4, 2006

On August 15th/06 I wrote about the Future of Insite. On the Friday of the long weekend, Health Minister, Tony Clement offered the site a one year reprieve, but many believe that this is just a stall tactic.

The Tory Government does not back safe injection sites, in spite of the evidence that they reduce drug-related crimes, overdose deaths and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Why? Because the moral right views drug addiction as a crime not as a health issue. Instead of prevention and reduction, they advocate tougher laws and longer prison sentances.

I'm sure that if the feds thought they could quietly close down Insite, they would have done so, but on this issue the public has clearly shown that they support Insite, for the sole reason that it works to make their cities and nieghbourhoods safer places.