PIVOT fighting for right to use heroin-assisted treatment
Posted March 25, 2014 11:40 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The PIVOT legal society is fighting today to overturn a federal decision making it illegal for patients in life or death situations to have access to heroin-assisted treatment.
It wants its clients to continue to access the treatment as part of the SALOME study.
“Ideology should not be a ruling policy in this case; we need to be looking to what’s in the best interests of our clients’ health and the best interests of society,” says Douglas King with PIVOT.
“Generally, we have a federal government that is enacting policies that are not based on the current case law, on the current medical recommendations in the medical community. This is a case where we actually have support from the provincial government,” he adds.
The feds are making the drug a restricted substance under the Food and Drug Act.
