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Insite is a supervised drug injection site in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [1] The DTES had 4,700 chronic drug users in 2000 and has been considered to be the centre of an "injection drug epidemic". The site provides a supervised and health-focused location for injection drug use, primarily ...
Supervised injection sites are also known as overdose prevention centers (OPCs), [6] supervised injection facilities, [7] safe consumption rooms, [8] safe injection sites, [1] safe injection rooms, [9] fix rooms, [10] fixing rooms, [11] safer injection facilities (SIF), drug consumption facilities (DCF), [2] drug consumption rooms (DCRs), [12] medically supervised injecting centres (MSICs) and ...
The group's members have been actively involved in lobbying for support of Insite, North America's first safe injection site, located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. [3] Its board of directors consists entirely of current and former drug addicts. [4] It was co-founded by Ann Livingston and Bud Osborn. [2]
For years, this Canadian city has hosted safe consumption sites for addicts. They've saved lives, but with some painful tradeoffs. Vancouver's safe drug-use sites are wrenching to see.
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The U.S. government took a significant step towards evaluating the effectiveness of safe injection sites. In 2023 it approved funding for a study with a $5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to measure the impact of these sites on overdose prevention, health care costs, and community safety. [ 53 ]
It was just before 8 p.m. in late June in the Kensington section of Philadelphia when Rosalind Pichardo, founder of the nonprofit Operation Save Our City, rushed to aid a young man in the middle ...
The city adopted a Four Pillars Drug Strategy, which combined harm reduction (e.g. needle exchanges, supervised injection sites) with treatment, enforcement, and prevention. [3] The strategy was largely a response to the endemic HIV and hepatitis C among injection drug users in the city's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.