A Comprehensive Public Health Response to the Problem of Illicit Drug Use

The paper makes three recommendations for a comprehensive strategy to address injection drug use in British Columbia: a provincially funded health and addiction management program with a public education component, a government funded multi-centre trial of a comprehensive addiction management program, and amendments to the Controlled Substances Act to allow for the legal availability of certain Schedule I drugs. The authors cite research relevant to their recommendations, list their assumptions, and outline what they consider to be the required elements for an effective approach to the issue of injection drug use.