Insite (Vancouver's safe injection site)

April 27, 2008 - 1:30pm — Mike McGregor
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This is a Video about Vancouver's Insite, a safe and supervised enviroment for the I.V. drug using community in Vancouver. Since the opening of Insite, overdose rates and the instances of bloodbourn illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and HEP C have visably dropped. Other important benifits are seen in the health, safety and dignity of the drug using community.

http://www.communityinsite.ca/

 

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April 30, 2008 - 2:32am — Tarek Lubani
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Insite indanger

I remember talking to a specialist in HIV treatment about this about why London doesn't have a program. The reason? The government still isn't into "Harm Reduction" policies. In fact, Insite was almost put out of business this past year, and it took a massive campaign that was well reported on Open Medicine before the government finally let the site stay open..

tarek : )

April 30, 2008 - 10:39am — Rachel Ayres
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not certain

I don't think they're in the clear yet.

According to 'Friends of Insite' :
"As a result of community pressure and overwhelming scientific evidence
proving InSite's benefits, the Harper Government has again delayed
making a decision on whether or not to renew the legal status for
Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site, allowing the facility to operate
for another nine months.

June 30, 2008, is the new deadline
for InSite's life-saving work, unless the Government of Canada grants a
new section 56 exemption from Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances
Act, currently required for InSite to legally offer addicts a clean,
safe place to inject their own drugs under the supervision of nurses
and trained health care professionals.

"

-r.

April 30, 2008 - 2:37pm — Mike McGregor
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in court

There's actually a constitutional challenge being heard in the B.C. Supreme Court this week arguing that closure of the site would be a violation of the 'right to security of the person' of IV drug users. 

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