A number of international experts including NY-Based Lindesmith Centre. Nations around the world a medicalized approach to drug use has been effective in reducing deaths in Zurich, Switzerland and Frankfurt, Germany. I hope, I can count on your support of M-454. If you have any questions, I would be pleased to discuss the matter further or provide you with additional information. Its crucial that the government, especially Health Minister Allan Rock, seriously consider this motion, Ms. Davies said.
Lives hang in the balance.
178 in the Vancouver area alone. Ms. Davies asked. Today s debate provides an opportunity for an open, meaningful dialogue on harm reduction and on the need for a sane approach to drug policy in this country. Its time for the federal government to get in step with the professionals in the health care, addictions and justice communities, and adopt harm reduction as a way to dealing with the drugs crisis in this country, Ms. Davies said. Putting in place the clinical multi-centre heroin prescription trials called for by this motion would be an important step in that direction.