FAR Executive Director, Angie Hamilton, was recently quoted in a Hill Times article featuring Senator Gwen Boniface’s Bill S-229, The Health-Centred Approach to Substance Use Act .
The Bill proposes the formation of a national strategy among all levels of government for a health-centred approach to substance use to assist those with substance use disorder and the decriminalization of drug possession for personal use. Read the article here
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