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Understanding of the Social Issue: Safe Injection Sites Supervised injection sites are clean, safe and medically supervised facilities where users can inject intravenous illegal substances. These facilities are legally sanctioned and are part of a harm reduction approach towards drug use problems. Safe injection sites have been implemented in Australia, various European countries including, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, as well as in Canada. Safe injection sites have been successful

Both have taken drastically different approaches to the issue of safe injection sites. Harper made his view clear when he passed legislation in response to the court's decision. Trudeau's liberal government is in progress of investigating the best way to amend legislation for Canada's interests on whole. Not all Canadians agree with the Court's decision, and both the government and the public have responded to the decision

is a need to establish a safe injection site to prevent accidental overdoses, as well as provide social services for detoxification and rehabilitation programs. It is necessary to note that Victoria and Esquimalt are not differentiated when studies are done. Therefore, the extrapolation of accurate drug use statistics for Esquimalt is not available. For the purpose of this paper, Victoria

the semester, there have been several different instances that have shown the importance of truly understanding what these issues are and how some of these issues can be fixed. The main environmental issue that I am going to discuss I this paper is safe water drinking and pollution, as pollution directs towards to the hazardous we do to it by simply polluting as well as how some of our pollution affects the air and living conditions that we face. I chose this environmental issue because I find it

Abandonment and Neglect in Gorazde. In his “Safe Area Gorazde” Joe Sacco describes his experience visiting a Muslim enclave during the Bosnian War of 1991-1995. Tragically, this work is based on testimonies of residents of Gorazde, allegedly a UN-protected area where Bosnian Muslims are able to take refuge to avoid the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Serbian army. Gorazde is anything but protected which Sacco demonstrates throughout the book by ridiculing the UN and the US who are able to and

The Effect of Safe Injection Sites in Vancouver, British Columbia A safe injection site (SIS) has been placed in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside where drug use is a challenging problem. The program is a vital piece of the cities known harm reduction approach to its serious problems with homelessness, drugs, crime and AIDS. Canada has drastically shifted its method. Going from punishing drug users to establishing the plan of harm reduction. Since 2003 when the supervised SIS opened, it has presented

A federal law that was enacted in 1974 to protect contaminated water supplies to the public was called the Safe Drinking Water Act. Through this law the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is given the authority to oversee water suppliers throughout the US and set standards for the contaminants contained in water supplies. Prior to 1974, State health departments had the principal duty for monitoring and regulating public consuming water substances. The U.S. Public health provider supplied oversight

quality of drinking water to the residents of Milwaukee and its surrounding areas, it is crucial and of the upmost importance that Milwaukee Water Works (MWW), publicly owned utility of the City of Milwaukee, abide by the procedures set forth under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Currently, MWW provide services to over 860,000 people in 16 surrounding communities in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Waukesha Counties. Overall coverage of MMW services

into the Flint river. Because of the many cost cutting measures, this change has lead to numerous environmental, economic, social, legal, ethical, and risk management concerns over how the Flint government handled this issue. Environmental Impacts Safe drinking water provisions is one of the most successful public health interventions that has helped developed our country. In the case of Flint Michigan however, ignorance of the risks of the unsuitable training of managers and staff that work on drinking

game to house security, I personally do not have a true reason to own one. Owning a gun has much more responsibility than I care to have by spending a fair amount of money and time for an item that has little to no use for me and would not make me safe. The legality of owning a gun far exceeds the mental health of the owner, few things non-gun owners know and what all gun owners should know. A lot of gun owners will say that non-gun owners have little say as to why one should not own guns, well I