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| Title |
An appeal to humanity: legal victory in favour of North America's only supervised injection facility: Insite
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Harm Reduction Journal, October 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1477-7517-7-23 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dan Small |
| Abstract |
Canada's federal government has once again failed to shut North America's only authorized supervised injection facility: Insite. A majority ruling issued by the BC Court of Appeal on 15 January 2010 upheld an earlier British Columbia Supreme Court ruling in 2008 that protected the rights of injection drug users (IDUs) to access Insite as a health facility as per the Charter of Rights and Freedoms component of the Constitution of Canada. The majority decision from Honourable Madam Justices Rowles, Huddart and Smith also established a jurisdictional victory safeguarding Insite as most appropriately run under the authority of the province of British Columbia rather than the federal Government of Canada. The Federal Government has appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. A hearing date has been set for 12 May 2011. The appeal will be a legal one but even more so, it will be an appeal to humanity. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 26 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 26 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 7 | 27% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 19% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 15% |
| Researcher | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 5 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 12% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 3 | 12% |
| Unknown | 6 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 November 2010.
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#6,297,803
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#667
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#30,468
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#4
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Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,119 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.8. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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