October 27, 2010
Bevel Up folks in NYC!
By
David Ng
Bevel Up Nurses at Ninth International Conference on Urban Health
Tomorrow, October 28, Juanita Maginley and Fiona Gold from the British Columbia Street Nursing Program are at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Ninth International Conference on Urban Health. This event is open to the public, part of a conference that brings together international experts for a full screening and discussion of harm reduction in varying urban settings.
Earlier this month, the whole team of outreach street nurses of the BCCDC were the recipients of the prestigious Human Rights Award from the International Centre for Nursing Ethics.
Thursday October 28,2010 | 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | 1216 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
From the Press release issued by Hunter College:
Celebrated Vancouver Street Nurses Come to NYC
Events Explore Harm Reduction Practices & Policies
October 1, 2010 – (New York, NY) The Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter College (CHMP) is proud to bring two women at the vanguard of harm reduction practice to New York for a series of events October 25, 26, and 28, 2010.
Juanita Maginley and Fiona Gold are from the British Columbia Street Nursing Program. Their work is the subject of the award-winning documentary, “Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing.” Earlier this month, they were the recipients of the prestigious Human Rights Award from the International Centre for Nursing Ethics for their compassionate, courageous work.
“We are thrilled to bring Juanita and Fiona to New York – a city for which drug overdoses are the leading cause of death among young adults,” said CHMP Co-Director and Hunter College Rudin Professor of Nursing Dr. Diana J. Mason, RN, PhD. “The Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter College is hosting these events with the Vancouver nurses in order to advance conversations about harm reduction in this country.” Center Co-Director Barbara Glickstein, RN, MPH, adds, “It’s our hope that both policy makers and media will be inspired by “Bevel Up” to take a more compassionate and realistic look at harm reduction.”
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On October 28, 2010 at 08:06 AM RECOVERED ADDICT wrote:
THE VANCOUVER EXPERIMENT
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This website is dedicated to telling the stories of the unfortunate individuals living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in the hope that awareness of this problem will spur people to get involved, to let all levels of government know that something has to be done to alleviate this misery rooted in addiction, homelessness and depravity. To point the way to recovery from addiction, which we believe is the root of most of this situation. It is our mandate to record the transition and the extreme changes that are even now occurring and will continue to unfold in the Downtown Eastside
More than 2 million syringes are handed out free every year. Clean mouthpieces for crack pipes are provided at taxpayers’ expense. Around 4,000 opiate addicts get prescription methadone. Thousands come to the injection site every year.
addiction is a state in which the body relies on a substance for normal functioning and develops physical dependence, as in drug addiction. When the drug or substance on which someone is dependent is suddenly removed, it will cause withdrawal, a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. Addiction is generally associated with increased drug tolerance common usage of the term addiction has spread to include psychological dependence. In this context, the term is used in drug addiction and substance abuse problems
Impelled by the horror show of the Downtown East Side, prodded by activists and convinced by reams of academic studies, the police and city government have agreed to provide hard drug users with their paraphernalia, a place to use it and even, for a few, the drugs themselves.
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