{"id":10389,"date":"2013-06-07T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:14","slug":"phd-student-lisa-wright-talks-to-the-ottawa-citzen-about-the-need-for-safe-injection-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2013\/phd-student-lisa-wright-talks-to-the-ottawa-citzen-about-the-need-for-safe-injection-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student Lisa Wright talks about the need for safe injection sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        PhD student Lisa Wright talks about the need for safe injection sites\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/lisa-wright\"><strong>Lisa Wright<\/strong><\/a> is a PhD Legal Studies Candidate researching Canadian drug policies and how the City of Ottawa governs drug users. She is a volunteer for the The Campaign for Safer Consumption Sites. The campaign will be a big part of her study and how it could affect drug users\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Wright, the possibility of a safe consumption site is a public health issue. \u201cThis is not a criminal law issue and we need to get the criminal law out of our drug policy, and we need to treat people like humans and have health resources for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about Lisa&#8217;s insights in <em>The Ottawa Citizen<\/em> article by Shaamini Yogaretnam, entitled &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cscsottawa.ca\/news\/byward-market-residents-asked-if-they-would-support-a-safe-injection-site\" target=\"_blank\">ByWard Market residents asked if they would support a safe injection site<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; (April 27, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Wright is a PhD Legal Studies Candidate researching Canadian drug policies and how the City of Ottawa governs drug users. She is a volunteer for the The Campaign for Safer Consumption Sites. The campaign will be a big part of her study and how it could affect drug users\u2019 lives. For Wright, the possibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13814,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions\/13814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}