Comments on: Canada providing safe sites of IV drug users http://www.medrants.com/archives/1377 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy http://www.medrants.com/archives/1377/comment-page-1#comment-2140 Jeremy Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:12:52 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/08/03/canada-providing-safe-sites-of-iv-drug-users/#comment-2140 Re: Frances' comment I can't speak for the rest of Canada's perception of Vancouver, but rest assured no Vancouver teenager fancies his/her city a "hippie paradise". Quite the opposite, in fact, when you cannot walk a single downtown city block without being begged/harassed for money by the homeless addicts. With their changed perceptions of Vancouverites, the vast majority of whom will NOT give money to panhandlers, I hear that the homeless will now first approach people they consider to be foreigners. And yeah, its warmer here but it rains like the Amazon, which has a desultory effect on any attempt at insulation for someone on the street. Re: Frances’ comment

I can’t speak for the rest of Canada’s perception of Vancouver, but rest assured no Vancouver teenager fancies his/her city a “hippie paradise”. Quite the opposite, in fact, when you cannot walk a single downtown city block without being begged/harassed for money by the homeless addicts.

With their changed perceptions of Vancouverites, the vast majority of whom will NOT give money to panhandlers, I hear that the homeless will now first approach people they consider to be foreigners.

And yeah, its warmer here but it rains like the Amazon, which has a desultory effect on any attempt at insulation for someone on the street.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.medrants.com/archives/1377/comment-page-1#comment-2139 Jeremy Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:12:29 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/08/03/canada-providing-safe-sites-of-iv-drug-users/#comment-2139 Re: Frances' comment I can't speak for the rest of Canada's perception of Vancouver, but rest assured no Vancouver teenager fancies his/her city a "hippie paradise". Quite the opposite, in fact, when you cannot walk a single downtown city block without being begged/harassed for money by the homeless addicts. With their changed perceptions of Vancouverites, the vast majority of whom will NOT give money to panhandlers, I hear that the homeless will now first approach people they consider to be foreigners. And yeah, its warmer here but it rains like the Amazon which has a desultory effect on any attempt at insulation for someone on the street. Re: Frances’ comment

I can’t speak for the rest of Canada’s perception of Vancouver, but rest assured no Vancouver teenager fancies his/her city a “hippie paradise”. Quite the opposite, in fact, when you cannot walk a single downtown city block without being begged/harassed for money by the homeless addicts.

With their changed perceptions of Vancouverites, the vast majority of whom will NOT give money to panhandlers, I hear that the homeless will now first approach people they consider to be foreigners.

And yeah, its warmer here but it rains like the Amazon which has a desultory effect on any attempt at insulation for someone on the street.

]]> By: Frances http://www.medrants.com/archives/1377/comment-page-1#comment-2138 Frances Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:17:52 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/08/03/canada-providing-safe-sites-of-iv-drug-users/#comment-2138 Vancouver has proven so problematic in arguments favouring Safe Injection Facilities (SIFs) because of the numerous social factors that have plagued the city in recent years. (I'm going to oversimplify here for a second) Due to a warmer climate, an incredibly badly run mental health program, and a long standing teenage myth of hippie paradise, Vancouver has had a terrible problem with homelessness, drug abuse and IDU-related HIV infection (Vancouver has the highest IDU-related HIV infection rate in North America - 23%). These problems are regularly cited as evidence of the inefficacy of Vancouver's drug programs, but in reality these problems have actually prompted Vancouver to develop numerous (and - as shown in studies - effective) groudbreaking drug and HIV programs that are thankfully begining to spill over into the rest of Canada. Vancouver has proven so problematic in arguments favouring Safe Injection Facilities (SIFs) because of the numerous social factors that have plagued the city in recent years. (I’m going to oversimplify here for a second) Due to a warmer climate, an incredibly badly run mental health program, and a long standing teenage myth of hippie paradise, Vancouver has had a terrible problem with homelessness, drug abuse and IDU-related HIV infection (Vancouver has the highest IDU-related HIV infection rate in North America – 23%). These problems are regularly cited as evidence of the inefficacy of Vancouver’s drug programs, but in reality these problems have actually prompted Vancouver to develop numerous (and – as shown in studies – effective) groudbreaking drug and HIV programs that are thankfully begining to spill over into the rest of Canada.

]]> By: DB's Medical Rants » On drug legalization http://www.medrants.com/archives/1377/comment-page-1#comment-3860 DB's Medical Rants » On drug legalization Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/08/03/canada-providing-safe-sites-of-iv-drug-users/#comment-3860 [...] is take - Paternalism In Medicine - Part III: The War On Drugs and one of my many posts - <a href="http://medrants.com/archives/2003/08/03/canada-providing-safe-sites-of-iv-drug-users/">Canada providing safe sites of IV drug users</a> First a quote [...] [...] is take – Paternalism In Medicine – Part III: The War On Drugs and one of my many posts – Canada providing safe sites of IV drug users First a quote [...]

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