we must take this to the street Harper out

If you are looking for another voice of methadone consumer for your advisory, I can recommend someone, a young male in his late 20's, who has been a polysubstance user for 10 years and is now in recovery (still on the methadone program and doing well) and who is very articulate and well educated please let me know.

regards

Hi, Charlene ...

This project is effectively over. We have used up our funding and met our deadline. So, the advisor committee has been disbanded. However, we are looking for new and creative ways to utilise the information we have gathered - and new and creative ways to get funding! If the young man you referred to is interested in some type of involvement in harm reduction, please have him contact me using the “Contact Us” link on the home page of the web site.

Thanks for your interest ...

I was a participant in one of the focus groups. It is great to see the results. Harm reduction kept me alive, so lets keep working to get our voices heard. Mr. Harper needs to be shown fthat addicts can be productive members os society, if allowed to be.

Hey Rob ..

I am really pleased that you have taken the time to look at the report ...

We are going to have to work hard to get harm reduction on the agenda for the next election (soon, I hope) and get politicians to publicly support it. It amazing how hostile many of them still are toward proven programs like needle exchange and how willingly they embrace the idea of stupid and counterproductive things like mandatory minimums, which do not work. And how much public support they get for their often outrageous rants. Users have special knowledge. They must got together and speak truth to power, and they will have to find a way to do it without government money.

Thanks Walter et al for this great report.

At one time I was very proud to speak about our Canadian approach to Harm Reduction but that has diminished over the last few years due to our shift in attitudes. I hope that this sort of report will be heard loud and clear by the government folks that need to continue pushing Harm Reduction since Canada is highly regarded as one of the true leaders and inspiration for the rest of the world.

I am currently in China working with heroin users and HIV/HCV prevention and my Chinese co-workers always praise the Canadian approach to dealing with health issues - lets keep that going so that other countries can always use Canada as a reference point when pushing for change within their governments.

Thanks again for the great report - very useful and concise...I will share it with my co-workers here...

High Walter!

It's your Uncle form Vancouver,BC

Keep Up the good works inspite of

the recent Fed Election

It's astounding how few harm reductionists actually VOTE

My duess is that we'll be having to prove our point once again to the highest Court Judges that will listen

to the criteria for our afe Injection site out here on the West Coast

Kindly RSVP Unk care of the Hiv/IDU

Consumers' Board by emailas follows:

cnsbd @mdi.ca

Harm Reduction Works,& so does Prevention education & awareness on HIV-AIDs,STD testing,safer sex practices & condom promotion.As a PLWHA HIV-AIDs Education & awareness speaker i realize more money needs to be spent in these area's if we are to slow the spread of HIV-AIDs!50-75% of ALL NEW transmissions R by peoples that do NOT know they are HIV+!Could this be you?Do YOU KNOW your status?GET TESTED FOR STD's TODAY!!!!james gough ,sudbury ont canada HIV+ 7 yrs & still "too healthy"to iniate ART.

We need to get the community more informed on harm reduction. To let them know that by using the harm reduction program we are stopping the spread of diseases and are making the addicts safer.

Help!!!!! Abbotsford, British Columbia made an ammendment to its Zoning Bylaws to outright prohibit specific harm reduction services. non-profit organizations, private businesses and care givers have had their ability to provide reasonable health care to the community of Abbotsford severely restricted by ammending the Zoning Bylaw which now prohibits needle exchanges, mobile exchanges and safe injection sites. Most of the intravenous drug users in Abbotsford area are street entrenched with no access to services else where. You know what happens now!!!!! Please let others know to stay away from such an irresponsible community! Someone from Abbotsford may come near your children! Make the media aware!