Report finds harm-reduction strategies have been more effective than tougher policing.
from the Georgia Straight
"A new report on Vancouver’s drug problem highlights the success of harm-reduction strategies and related approaches while suggesting tougher policing has not been effective.
"The report, released today (June 24) by the Urban Health Initiative at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, is based on illicit drug-use data collected over a 15-year period.
“'The objective of this report is to make data accessible to a wide variety of stakeholders and to directly inform the City of Vancouver’s Four Pillars Drug Strategy, the Province of British Columbia’s response to illicit drug use, and the Canadian federal government’s National Anti-Drug Strategy,' the report says.
"Among its findings, the study shows that while overall drug use remained steady from 1996 to 2011, injection drug use decreased over that period. …"
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