I was thinking about this the other day after reading about Thistle Harlequins co-worker who contracted Hepatitis from a dirty needle.
Safe injections sites provide: a safe environment for inteavenous drug users, needle exchange program ensuring clean needles and proper disposal of used needles, medical aid, access to councelling (addiction related or otherwise), etc, etc.
Many people are of course opposed to these sites mainly because they are government funded they see it as a waste of tax dollars to help addicts.
Think about it though, addicts are peope too and why shouldn't they get the help that they need if the resources are available?
Having lived in an area heavily saturated with drug use (I'm talking East Hastings downtown Vancouver here...it's bad) I have seen the impact this particular site http://www.vch.ca/sis/
hs had on the community. Albeit the problem of addiction still exists and I don't think it will ever disappear but this is definitley a step in the right direction.
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