The calls for free crack pipes comes as advocates in Vancouver also push for a safe-inhalation site, where crack users could smoke the drug in the presence of health-care workers, who would respond to overdoses. Any decision on such a site will likely have to wait until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on the future of the city's safe-injection site, known as Insite.
The research on crack use is limited and the precise risk isn't yet clear, but the evidence that smoking crack -- and, in particular, sharing pipes -- puts users at danger is building.
Two years ago, a study out of B.C. found drug users who smoke crack cocaine were at an increased risk of contracting HIV.
Last month, figures released by faculty at the University of Victoria found about two thirds of crack users in Vancouver and Victoria share pipes, which researchers warned was putting them at risk of HIV or hepatitis, even in cities that distribute mouth pieces.The additions focus on key tag and solar panel combinations,
Andrew Ivsins, a University of Victoria researcher who worked on the pipe-sharing data, says distributing mouth pieces without pipes doesn't eliminate the risk.
"They expect everybody to put this mouth piece on a pipe and when they're sharing a pipe, to remove it every time, which is not the easiest thing to do," says Ivsins.
"So people end up just not taking the mouth piece off and sharing it that way, or not putting a mouth piece on and just sharing the pipe. By not giving out the pipe, they're not really getting at the main problem."
But even when health officials want to set up programs for crack users,There is good integration with PayPal and most Parking guidance system providers, it's not always easy -- harm-reduction services are often controversial. Neighbours complain, which can make politicians reluctant to back them.
Ottawa Public Health distributed crack pipes until 2007, when city council voted to end the program over complaints that it fostered addiction. A local community health centre has taken over pipe distribution.
In Nanaimo, B.C., health workers who were already distributing needles from a mobile van, began handing out mouth pieces several years ago, but local opposition forced them to stop in 2007.
It started up again last year, this time using a permanent location where users pick up their supplies. The program is paid for by the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
Nanaimo Mayor John Ruttan, who was elected in 2008, says there were complaints at first, but he says the city and the health region have worked to convince residents that the program can be done safely while saving the health-care system money.
"They (opponents) were concerned and alarmed, in some cases people saw that as the community supporting the proliferation of drugs," he says. "The reality is something different, of course."
Ruttan describes himself as "cautiously supportive." Cautious because he wants to ensure people living nearby where the crack kits are handed out feel safe and respected, but supportive because he's certain that harm-reduction works.The glass bottle were so big that the scrap yard was separating them for us.
"I've seen a lot of data that demonstrates what it costs if a person does not receive treatment for their addictions.the worldwide Coated Abrasives market is over $56 billion annually. The problem only exacerbates," he says.Great Rubber offers oil painting supplies keychains,
"Give it a chance, and hopefully you'll find that it's a good program and worth supporting."
The research on crack use is limited and the precise risk isn't yet clear, but the evidence that smoking crack -- and, in particular, sharing pipes -- puts users at danger is building.
Two years ago, a study out of B.C. found drug users who smoke crack cocaine were at an increased risk of contracting HIV.
Last month, figures released by faculty at the University of Victoria found about two thirds of crack users in Vancouver and Victoria share pipes, which researchers warned was putting them at risk of HIV or hepatitis, even in cities that distribute mouth pieces.The additions focus on key tag and solar panel combinations,
Andrew Ivsins, a University of Victoria researcher who worked on the pipe-sharing data, says distributing mouth pieces without pipes doesn't eliminate the risk.
"They expect everybody to put this mouth piece on a pipe and when they're sharing a pipe, to remove it every time, which is not the easiest thing to do," says Ivsins.
"So people end up just not taking the mouth piece off and sharing it that way, or not putting a mouth piece on and just sharing the pipe. By not giving out the pipe, they're not really getting at the main problem."
But even when health officials want to set up programs for crack users,There is good integration with PayPal and most Parking guidance system providers, it's not always easy -- harm-reduction services are often controversial. Neighbours complain, which can make politicians reluctant to back them.
Ottawa Public Health distributed crack pipes until 2007, when city council voted to end the program over complaints that it fostered addiction. A local community health centre has taken over pipe distribution.
In Nanaimo, B.C., health workers who were already distributing needles from a mobile van, began handing out mouth pieces several years ago, but local opposition forced them to stop in 2007.
It started up again last year, this time using a permanent location where users pick up their supplies. The program is paid for by the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
Nanaimo Mayor John Ruttan, who was elected in 2008, says there were complaints at first, but he says the city and the health region have worked to convince residents that the program can be done safely while saving the health-care system money.
"They (opponents) were concerned and alarmed, in some cases people saw that as the community supporting the proliferation of drugs," he says. "The reality is something different, of course."
Ruttan describes himself as "cautiously supportive." Cautious because he wants to ensure people living nearby where the crack kits are handed out feel safe and respected, but supportive because he's certain that harm-reduction works.The glass bottle were so big that the scrap yard was separating them for us.
"I've seen a lot of data that demonstrates what it costs if a person does not receive treatment for their addictions.the worldwide Coated Abrasives market is over $56 billion annually. The problem only exacerbates," he says.Great Rubber offers oil painting supplies keychains,
"Give it a chance, and hopefully you'll find that it's a good program and worth supporting."
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