Hannah Hetzer is the Senior Policy Manager of the Americas for the Drug Policy Alliance. Suchitra Rajagopalan is pursuing her Bachelor of Laws at the University of…
Drug policy should focus on harm reduction
Katrina Pacey is the executive director of the Pivot Legal Society. Donald MacPherson is the executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. The flurry of new…
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition/Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network Policy Briefs
Harm Reduction Brief Canada is known around the world as a leader in harm reduction. It is host to the first, and only supervised consumption site in…
Time to rethink our approach to drugs in prisons: Barriers to in-prison substance use treatment and harm reduction programs
This is the third in a three-part series highlighting the critical need to consider policy and program reform in Canadian federal prisons. You can read the first…
Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy
Co-authored with Jenna Valleriani, director of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy. This op-ed first appeared in the Globe and Mail, Feb. 27, 2015 Prime Minister Stephen…
A painful situation: Access to medication in prisons
This is the second in a three-part series highlighting the critical need to consider policy and program reform in Canadian federal prisons. You can read the first…
Drugs in Canadian prisons: has enforcement worked?
This is the first in a three-part series highlighting the critical need to consider policy and program reform in Canadian federal prisons.
Keeping music festival-goers safe through harm reduction
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]With the onset of winter, I’ve been reminiscing about the summer. Like many young Canadians, I spent the summer adventuring around my province, hiking, camping and…
Drug Policy Abuse: a condition affecting politicians across Canada
A new, debilitating psychiatric condition has been identified today by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Sadly this condition – dubbed “Drug Policy Abuse” – affects a great…
