Plan to expand prison needle exchange programs moves forward despite pandemic delays
At a presentation given to the Internationalin Montreal on Friday, Henry de Souza, the agency’s director general of clinical services and public health, said “a number of institutions” have been identified for an expansion, and the program will continue to be implemented across the country.at two Canadian prisons since 2018, and another seven were added in 2019.
Since the site opened, there have been 55 participants, 1,591 visits and zero overdoses at the site, officials told the conference. The correctional service says it also offers mental health counselling, access to naloxone to counter opioid overdose effects and preventive treatments, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis — medicine taken to prevent getting HIV.
“I’m encouraged by the way they’re describing the program as something they’re proud of,” said Sandra Ka Hon Chu, co-executive director of the HIV Legal Network. Inmates are subject to a threat assessment by security and approval by a warden before being able to access programs, as officials described the process. Almost a quarter of requests to participate in the program have been rejected, according to statistics presented at the conference.
Leah Cook, the regional manager of public health for the Prairies, oversaw the implementation of the supervised injection site at Drumhellerand said it is “the only known service of its kind in a correctional setting on the world stage, for which I am incredibly proud.”Cook said a “safe zone” was created so that participants in the program could carry their own drug supply to the observation room without the fear of being searched _ and it’s been nicknamed the “yellow brick road.
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