Rebuttal to the Correctional Service of Canada's Response

"Writing on behalf of the Correctional Service Canada (CSC), Jonathan Smith and Henry de Souza suggest that CSC provides a variety of services to manage and prevent blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections. What they neglect to explain, however, is why the federal prison service has yet to implement prison needle and syringe programs (PNSPs) - contrary to over two decades of widely accepted evidence that these programs are effective and safe. PNSPs are listed among the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC 2013) 15 interventions, to which Smith and de Souza refer, as an essential program, not an optional one. Thus, despite its claims, CSC is not "consistent" with the UNODC recommendations."