Since opening its doors in 2003, Insite has been a safe, health-focused place where people inject drugs and connect to health care services – from primary care to treat disease and infection, to addiction counselling and treatment, to housing and community supports.
Insite is North America’s first legal supervised injection site. The BC Ministry of Health Services provides operational funding for Insite through Vancouver Coastal Health, which operates the facility in conjunction with PHS Community Services Society.
Insite operates on a harm-reduction model, which means it strives to decrease the adverse health, social and economic consequences of drug use without requiring abstinence from drug use.
Since opening its doors in 2003, Insite has been a safe, health-focused place where people inject drugs and connect to health care services – from primary care to treat disease and infection, to addiction counselling and treatment, to housing and community supports. - Insite website
The decision looks like it paves the way for other supervised injections clinics to open in cities where drug addiction is a social and medical problem. This is a major breakthrough in the fight to establish effective and health oriented harm reduction programs across Canada. Next cities on the list to establish such facilities include Victoria, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax.
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