‘War on drugs’ fuels HIV epidemic as governments ignore science, experts say

Two Vancouver-based groups that do research on HIV-AIDS and drug policy say the war on drugs waged by many governments, including the government of Canada, has failed to curb illegal drug use and is actually fuelling the spread of the disease. “There's just a huge discordance between scientific evidence and policy,” said Dr. Evan Wood, founder of the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy and a researcher at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/war-on-drugs-fuels-hiv-epidemic-as-… added by: JackHerer

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