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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Amazing grace: Vancouver's supervised injection facility granted six-month lease on life | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Amazing grace Vancouver s supervised injection facility granted six-month lease on life Dan Small1 2 Address department of Medicine University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada and 2PHS Community Services Society Vancouver Canada Email Dan Small - dansmall@portlandhotel.com Published 24 January 2008 Received 30 November 2007 Accepted 24 January 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 3 doi 10.1186 1477-7517-5-3 This article is available from http www.harmreductionjournal.cOm content 5 1 3 2008 Small licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Addiction should be a matter primarily for the Chief of Medicine rather than the Chief of Police. While internationally renowned for its social kindness Canada has not been without its share of disgraceful political mistakes in the not too distant past. Regrettably there are many shameful events in Canada that have unfolded in the name of public policy including the banishment without medical treatment of Chinese Canadians living with leprosy to die on D Arcy and Bentinck Islands in British Columbia while European Canadians stricken similarly enjoyed healthcare on the mainland as well as the eternally haunting treatment of people of aboriginal ancestry who were without full voting privileges in some parts of Canada until 1965 and abandoned to encampments reserves that paralleled South African apartheid. In due course these public policies have come to be understood as horrific in retrospect. Many have all met with a remorseful fate where a future Prime Minister is held to public account for the sad excesses of an earlier generation. With respect to North America s only supervised injection facility SIF a medical .