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Fighting addiction's death row: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield shows a measure of legal courage

Dan Small

Author Affiliations

Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

PHS Community Services Society, Vancouver, Canada

Harm Reduction Journal 2008, 5:31 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-5-31

Published: 28 October 2008

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Additional file 1:

The Honourable Mr. Justice Pitfield Reasons for Judgment: PHS Community Services Society v. Attorney General of Canada, 2008 BCSC 661. The legal judgment pertaining to North America's only SIF.

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Report of the Task Force into illicit narcotic overdose deaths in British Columbia . The results of a provincial task force examining fatal overdoses due to injection drug use.

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Health impact of injection drug use and HIV in Vancouver. A report on the epidemic of injection drug use in the Vancouver area commissioned for the local health authority.

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HIV, Hepatitis, and injection drug use in British Columbia: pay now or pay later? A report on the population health impacts of injection drug user by British Columbia's Chief Medical Health Officer.

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Additional file 5:

Framework for action. This is the drug policy document for City of Vancouver.

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Junkies and drug pushers don't belong near children and families. This is a pamphlet mailed out compliments of Rob Merrifield, Member of Parliament, in August of 2008.

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