Soon, likely by July or August, Vancouver will have the first sanctioned and supervised injection sites in North America for users of heroin and other illicit drugs.
There are 40 or 50 such sites in the world, in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. Their effectiveness, the federal guidelines acknowledge, "remains to be demonstrated in terms of hard indicators and rigorous evaluation methods."
Sources of more information.
1.
http://www.macleans.ca/xta-doc2/2003...th/56833.shtml
2.
http://www.macleans.ca/xta-doc2/2003...th/56835.shtml
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