FROM DPNC BOARD MEMBER, AL ARSENAULT Vancouver’s past Mayors have jetted over to the countries in Europe with the highest rates of drug use and ignored the great job Sweden has done. They’ve flown addicts stuck in their active addiction to advise parliament on how to solve drug addiction. Both actions are useless. “They’ll use drugs anyways so we’ll just show them how to do it safely” is a misguided

THE FOLLOWING WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF DPNC PRESIDENT GWEN LANDOLT Dear Colleagues, The harm reduction people appear to be endorsing a conference on children presented by The RCMP and the City of Stratford, Ontario (see attached). Their support of this conference may be due to the fact that I understand that they are very concerned about the UN convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides in

FROM THE DESK OF GWEN LANDOLT, DPNC PRESIDENT: Dear Colleagues, Attached for your information is an outline of a course on Harm Reduction (117 hours) offered at York University in Toronto. It’s purpose is to provide service providers, administrators and policy makers information on the principles of harm reduction and mobilize support for and developing harm reduction programs in communities and institutions. The National Harm Reduction Program Advisory Committee assisted