Vancouver Safe Injection site (first of its kind in North America!!)

• Check out these two articles on the opening of the site: "Drug Users File in As Injection Site Opens" and "Vancouver Injection Clinic Opens For Addicts".

• Vancouver Coastal Health: good articles about the safe injection site. Have a look at this too about the safe injection site.

• The Media Awareness Project: has tons of, up-to-date, articles about Downtown Eastside.

• City of Vancouver: Supervised Injection Sites (SISs) Frequently Asked Questions. 

• "Experts Debate Injection Site for Addicts": another article about the site discussing the way it is run.

• "No Fanfare Over Second Site": an article about injection sites in Vancouver.

• "Eastside group readies safe-injection site": check this out from resist.ca, an article written before the opening of the site.

• "Canada's safe haven for junkies": discusses the state of Downtown Vancouver before the opening of the site.  

• Stop the drug war organization  has something to say before the opening of the site. 

• Drug Policy Alliance:  a good website to know more about drug policies around the world.

• HeroinAbuse.Net: lots and lots of info and facts about drugs.

• The Canadian Harm Reduction Network: very good source to get help for drug addicts and research about issues that relate to drugs around Canada.

• Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.: help and support for drug addicts in Vancouver.

• Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse: offers many documents that discuss many issues that relate to drugs.

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