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Media Highlight: Report says clean needle programs are in high demand, underfunded

Posted by Department of Community Health & Epidemiology on June 12, 2017 in Media Highlights

Nova Scotia must develop a more comprehensive and integrated approach to harm reduction if it wants to effectively deal with the growing opioid crisis, according to one expert.

Dr. Susan Kirkland is a professor at Dalhousie’s department of community health and epidemiology, and the director of the Atlantic Interdisciplinary Research Network for Social and Behavioural Issues in Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS.

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