Report suggests B.C.’s safe-injection site a failure

~ Jason Schwartz

A new, highly critical, paper has been published about the safe injection center (INSITE) in Vancouver. The author has a clear bias against harm reduction and for treatment and primary prevention. His approach in the paper is to pick apart the pro-INSITE bias in research and media coverage.

In my opinion, he’s pretty effective. One gripe I have about it is that both sides assume a posture of besieged minority. Both sides have some points and my biases lean in one direction, but it’s really pretty tiresome. Here’s a news article about the paper. Here’s the paper itself.

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Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I currently serve as the Director of Social Work and Spiritual Care for a healthcare system. I've also served as the Director of Behavioral Health at another hospital. I'm also a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.