"For me the focal point of the Bevel Up is to address the stigma that people who use drugs experience, when you use drugs, you are seen as a failure as a human being, and you're very scary. You are to be reviled and detested, and users know that and internalize it, and so do service providers, that’s where the break down of health care delivery happens, and probably that’s the root cause for most negative factors associated with the criminalization and the to the harm that is done to individuals families, community, it all stemmed form that stigma. So this is why I think it needs to be seen by policy makers, and service providers."
—Janine Stevenson, Outreach Street Nurse