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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 ...
The legality of supervised injection is handled on a state-by state basis. New South Wales trialed a supervised injection site in Sydney in 2001, which was made permanent in 2010. [14] After several years of community activism, Victoria agreed to open a supervised injection site in Melbourne's North Richmond neighbourhood in 2018 on a trial ...
There were 1,150 drug-overdose-related deaths last year in Philadelphia, 80 percent of them from opioids, particularly the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Fighting for America's first safe injection ...
The Trump administration is being urged to shut down “safe injection” sites for drug users in New York City. Shutterstock A sign at the OnPoint safe injection site in New York City seen on Feb ...
Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. It was decommissioned in 1995 when it closed.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Wednesday rejected the provision of supervised injection sites, facilities where people can inject themselves with illegal drugs under medical supervision, as a ...
In September 2003, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Portland Hotel Society opened Insite, North America's first supervised drug injection site, in Downtown Eastside Vancouver, an area of high drug use. s 4(1) and 5(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) prohibited the possession and trafficking of controlled substances, and so in order to operate, Insite was ...
Sep. 28—BOSTON — A rise of fatal opioid overdoses has revived a push on Beacon Hill for state-sanctioned sites where addicts can shoot drugs under the supervision of health care workers.