PROJECT - Alberta Safe Injection Sites
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| Course: | Applied Sociology 30 |
| Book: | PROJECT - Alberta Safe Injection Sites |
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| Date: | Thursday, 18 September 2025, 7:32 PM |
Introduction
Safe Injection Sites are a controversial strategy to address the public health concerns associated with intravenous drug use. Read about the perspectives that promote and critique the safe injection site model at the following websites. Can you determine how the positions expressed by the different sides of the issue fit within the different sociological perspectives on deviance? What is the best way to deal with the problems of addiction?
Not surprisingly, there are perspectives exist that promote and critique the safe injection site model.
Can you determine how the positions expressed by the different sides of the issue fit within the different sociological perspectives on deviance?
What do you think?
What is the best way to deal with the problems of addiction?
Read on for more details!
Resources
Alberta Health Services - Supervised Consumption Services
The Impact of Safe Injection Sites
Safe Injection Sites Approved Due to Alberta's Opioid Crisis
Funding for new safe injection sites frozen by Alberta government until further notice
Safe consumption site still seeing high rates of crime: Calgary Police report
The Four Pillars Drug Strategy
Health Officers Council of British Columbia, “A Public Health Approach to Drug Control in Canada:”
Drug Prevention Network of Canada
Centre for Addictions Research (CAR BC)
Opinion: Safe Injection Site in Toronto Would Boost Public Health
Project
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In order to begin this project, start by carefully reading through the web pages listed on the resource page.
You are not limited to using only these pages to complete the assignment described below.
You are going to present your findings to the Alberta premier, recommending a specific course of action for the government.
The question you will answer is, "Should the Alberta provincial government fund safe injection sites?"
After conducting your research, you are going to present your findings.
In your presentation, you MUST:
- explain, with specific examples, how supervised injection sites may help a community
- explain, with specific examples, how supervised injection sites may lead to an increase in crime in a community
- provide a specific piece of evidence drawn from a news source posted within the last two months
- present your own conclusion to answer the question, in response to your research and your studies in Unit Two. Your conclusion must be presented in an objective tone, supported by research.
- present a course of action to the Alberta premier
- write at least 1000 words
- include a bibliography of all of your sources
- Some options for presentation form are
- Word document
- PPT
- movie
- podcast
- etc
- Do NOT plagiarize. Such an action will result in a zero on this project!
NO matter the format of your presentation, the content, WITHOUT BIBLIOGRAPHY, should be at least 1000 words, which is roughly TWO single-spaced pages of 12-point font.
Your presentation will be assessed using the Applied Sociology 30 Project Rubric.