The unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to order the Federal Minister of Health to exempt Vancouver’s supervised injection site from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act is a major public health victory for Canada. It will save lives, decrease crime, improve health services, decrease transmission of HIV and hepatitis C, reduce the health and social burden and most likely the so...

At the 1969 national meeting of the American Association of Clinical Chemists in Denver, a group of clinical chemists from New Jersey informally discussed the possibility of forming a new section. The subject came up repeatedly during the course of the meetings and the idea seemed to become more attractive as time passed. In October of 1969, I sent a letter to David A. H. Director of the AACC, ...