Harm Reduction - Let's Stand Up For Queer Youth

The City Of Ottawa gave its safer inhalation program -- otherwise known as the crack kit exchange program -- a mere two years before declaring it a failure despite evidence to the contrary. On Jul 11, Mayor Larry O'Brien called drug users a "sad lot" and urged city councillors to cancel the program that allows them to exchange a used glass pipe for a clean one. Councillors obliged the mayor, voting 15 to seven in favor of cancellation.

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