Substance abuse final
ccording to the HCLU video that we watched, in 1997 [fill in the blank] percent of those who inject drugs in Vancouver's downtown east side became infected with HIV.
%19
According to the HCLU video that we watched, the Insite facility has supervised more than [fill in the blank] drug injections since 2003
1,000,000
According to the HCLU video that we watched, over [fill in the blank] people have made use of Insite's services.
12,000
According to the Providence Health Care video that you watched, Vancouver has [fill in the blank] injection drug users.
12,000
According to the Journal of Urban Health abstract that we read, the participants in the NAOMI study had used opioids for [fill in the blank] or more years prior to the study.
16.5 years
According to the HCLU video that we watched, the province of British Columbia experienced [fill in the blank] heroin overdose related deaths between 1988 and 1998
2,400
According to the Journal of Urban Health abstract that we read, the NAOMI study included 192 patients from Vancouver, BC and [fill in the blank] patients from Montreal, QC.
59
According to the Vice video that you watched, [fill in the blank] of 22 students arrested as a result of "Operation Glasshouse" were classified as "special needs."
9
According to the HCLU video that we watched, [fill in the blank] percent of women who utilize the Insite facility are involved in the survival sex trade.
90%
When a person commits a crime for the purpose of obtaining money to buy drugs, this is commonly referred to as a crime of [fill in the blank].
Acquisition
According to the HCLU video that we watched, the lawyers for Insite made two types of arguments in the Supreme Court of Canada. These arguments were [fill in the blank].
Constitutional jurisdictional
According to the Vice video that you watched, this legal term refers to a "practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely to commit."
Entrapment
According to the Journal of Urban Health abstract that we read, the NAOMI study had a higher proportion of [fill in the blank] patients than the European HAT studies.
Female
According to the Journal of Urban Health abstract that we read, the Vancouver participants in the NAOMI study were more likely to have used this drug within the last month when compared with their counterparts in Montreal.
Heroine
In the Providence Health Care video that you watched, Dr. Martin Schechter stated that the SALOME study is designed to compare the effectiveness of heroin maintenance with the use of this drug for addiction therapy.
Hydomorohon
In the Providence Health Care video that you watched, Dr. Perry Kendall stated that the medical treatment of heroin addiction is unique in that [fill in the blank].
It only offers first line treatment not second or 3rd
The HuffPost article that we read states that America's founding fathers (the framers of the United States Constitution) intended for this category of persons "to serve as a check on bad prosecutions and ineffective laws."
Jurors
According to the Providence Health Care video that you watched, the NAOMI study is designed to compare the effectiveness of heroin maintenance with the use of this drug for treating addiction.
Methadone
According to the Journal of Urban Health abstract that we read, 25 percent of the patients in the NAOMI study from this city had shared needles recently.
Montreal
Drawing on the Providence Health Care video that you watched, describe the benefits that the NAOMI and SALOME studies had for both the patients and the local community in which these programs were implemented. Did the implementation of these programs result in more people becoming addicted to drugs? Did the patients undergoing heroin maintenance increase their dosages?
No the people coming in were already on drugs so it was encourage people to become drug addicts. The average dose was half of what was allowed so no thier dosenge didn't go up. It keeps the street cleaner
In the HuffPost article that we read Professor Paul Butler argues in favor of jury nullification as a response to the war on drugs. This practice, according to Butler, has been used successfully in the United States to overturn which institutions?
Northern jurors helped abolish slavery by refusing to convict people "guilty" of helping slaves escape. Nullification was also a factor in ending Prohibition, which locked up people for selling liquor, and created the same violent market and drive-by shootings
According to the HCLU video that we watched, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled in favor of keeping Insite open by a [fill in the blank] margin.
Unanimous
When he was Mayor of Baltimore in 1988 Kurt Schmoke made some controversial statements about the war on drugs. Drawing on the Baltimore magazine article that was assigned briefly describe what Schmoke said. Why were his statements so controversial? What events and circumstances led Schmoke to make these statements?
the U.S. ought to seriously consider and debate an alternative approach to the War on Drugs. He also used the term decriminalization, not legalization. Schmoke had been thinking about national drug-control policies and the historical similarities to Prohibition—"the war on alcohol," in his words—for some time. The issue had become more urgent and personal for Schmoke when an undercover detective was shot and killed during a drug buy three years earlier while he was the city's state's attorney.