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#4 Special episode: Legal perspective on the Opioid Crisis impacting the prison population
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Prisoners are a high-risk population for opioid overdose. One in ten of overdose death occurs within one year after release from the prison. Prisoners need to receive respectful and equitable access to overdose prevention programs. However, the voice of this marginalized population is not being heard. Sandra Ka Hon Chu, the Director of Research and Advocacy at the Canadian HIV/AIDS legal network and a lawyer by profession discusses the challenges faced while advocating for harm reduction in prisons and the legal tools that advocates can use to amplify their voices.
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Manage episode 357971659 series 3159302
Prisoners are a high-risk population for opioid overdose. One in ten of overdose death occurs within one year after release from the prison. Prisoners need to receive respectful and equitable access to overdose prevention programs. However, the voice of this marginalized population is not being heard. Sandra Ka Hon Chu, the Director of Research and Advocacy at the Canadian HIV/AIDS legal network and a lawyer by profession discusses the challenges faced while advocating for harm reduction in prisons and the legal tools that advocates can use to amplify their voices.
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