Editorial - Curb Expectations

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There is nothing wrong with an anti-drug campaign; parents will welcome the public support of their lectures to adolescents. For drug addicts, Mr. [Tony Clement]'s speech gave worrisome signs a crackdown on drug use may see the closing of Canada's only safe injection site, in Vancouver, which relies on an exemption to federal drug laws. Despite evidence that addicts are living longer and getting health care they need at the site, Mr. Clement told the CMA that to him, "harm reduction" means prevention, treatment and enforcement.

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Editorial - Curb Expectations

Federal Health Minister Tony Clement told a meeting of Canada's doctors Monday that the status quo of medicare was not s...

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