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’ lives.
For Wright, the possibility of a safe consumption site is a public health issue. “This 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.”
Read about Lisa’s insights in The Ottawa Citizen article by Shaamini Yogaretnam, entitled “ByWard Market residents asked if they would support a safe injection site” (April 27, 2013).