Posted on 12/06/2005 1:33:42 PM PST by ivyleaguebrat
Dec 06 8:12 AM US/Eastern
Health authorities in Canada's westernmost province want to make the country's first test facility for heroin injection permanent and are considering opening additional clinics to meet the huge demand. The Vancouver facility was set up in 2003, against US opposition, as a three-year experiment exempt from Canadian drug laws.
Since then the clinic, North America's only such operation, has run at capacity, with some 800 heroin injections daily.
"It's all-round positive, with no downsides," said Perry Kendall, British Columbia province's chief medical officer.
Kendall said the clinic achieved its goal to cut overdose deaths and rates of hepatitis and HIV infection. Although its exemption from drug laws will not expire until September 2006, this month he applied to Health Canada to make the facility permanent.
With a federal election currently underway in Canada, a decision will likely take months.
The clinic looks like an innocuous storefront in Vancouvers squalid Downtown Eastside district, Canada's most impoverished neighbourhood with more than 5,000 heroin addicts concentrated in a 10-block area.
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Wonder if this is what passes as "tough on crime" in canada?
"Canada considers more heroin injection sites"
The brain seems to be a good site.
"It's all-round positive, with no downsides,"
What posible downsides could there be to 800 people / day shooting heroin?
No doubt their careers and family lives are all hunky dory.
Oh, of course not. Liberal ideas are always, without question, simply brilliant. There are never any unintended consequences.
Just a little, just a little more, just a little
Oh, and my friend here would like to try some too...
Just a little, just a little, just a little
Where's a good F5 tornado when you need it - Someone put some trailers on the roofs, quick.
In the butt, behind the knee, between the toes....
What else are you going to do if you have to live in Canada?
Go fishing.
If it keeps them from shooting up in Denny's bathrooms (or the Canadian equivalent), I'm for it. So unappetizing to watch a bumbling opiate addict begging for pancakes after spending 30 minutes in the bathroom.
They must be running out of good veins.
Uh-huh. Anybody want to walk the length of, say, West Hastings in Vancouver BC and then tell me there's no problem?
Oh?
Really now- no lie?
Let me hunt a link and comment:
No more shooting up in public, Vancouver police tell junkies
...they want to get drug use out of the streets and doorways of the Downtown Eastside...There are thousands of users in the Downtown Eastside...
Have a Steak and Cheese with your heroin shot, eh?
The people that got run over by the cars driven by junkies.
Food makes junkies throw up.
Worst I ever heard of was under the tongue...
Although I'm probably behind the times.
Another way to pacify the population. They won't complain or be unhappy if they are drugged. Keep feeding them drugs....
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