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Australia:
Vatican
KO's
Nuns'
Safe-Injecting
Room
Plan,
but
University
Saves
the
Day
11/5/99
It was a tense week for Australian
drug policy. Last Wednesday (10/27), the Vatican issued a directive
to the Sisters of Charity in Sydney, Australia, ordering them to abandon
their plans to run a state-sponsored trial safe-injecting room in the city's
Kings Cross neighborhood. The project, which was to be up and running
by the end of this year, had been the culmination of years of effort by
public health officials and state legislators. But on Monday, the
University of New South Wales stepped in to announce it would take over
responsibility for the project.
In a vote Sydney papers called
"unprecedented," the university council unanimously approved a resolution
to support the project, and vowed to devote its own research and medical
resources to the clinical trial.
"The Council of the University
of NSW resolves that the university indicate to the NSW Government and
the minister, the Honourable John Della Bosca, its support for the 18-month
trial of a medically supervised injecting service, and offer its own services
so that this harm-minimisation program, affecting the welfare of the vulnerable
people of NSW and Australia, can proceed with the full confidence of the
Government and the community," the resolution read in part.
The resolution will be presented
to the state government. Its signatories include the council, whose
21 members include two parliamentary representatives as well as the chancellor,
vice-chancellor and several faculty members of the university, and a broad
selection of leaders from Sydney's medical and public health community.
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Issue #115, 11/5/99
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