As King County officials move toward establishing two safe injection sites for drug users, a Bothell city council member hopes to stop them before they get too far. And he’s using Initiative 27 to do ...
TORONTO” ” A scientific review at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto on August 15 became the scene of an emotional outpouring of support for Insite, Vancouver's supervised-injection site ...
Opponents of safe injection sites in King County have based many arguments on the poor conditions surrounding Vancouver B.C.’s Insite facility. But one journalist argues they are missing a bigger ...
As the Mayor and former Mayors of the City of Vancouver, we are asking the federal government to reconsider its efforts to close Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection facility. Our support of ...
As Insite celebrates its 10th anniversary of successful operation in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Conservative government in Ottawa is still railing against Safe Injection Sites. It’s ironic, ...
Vancouver's supervised drug injection site has received its annual exemption to operate, Vancouver Coastal Health said on Wednesday. The program has the support of leading national health ...
Vancouver's controversial Insite clinic can stay open, the Supreme Court said Friday in a landmark ruling. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that not allowing the clinic to operate under an ...
VANCOUVER — It has survived political venom and high court challenges that threatened to close it down, but two million injections later, North America's only legal supervised injection site is ...
Vancouver police are warning local drug addicts to use the supervised injection facility Insite after two people died after injecting heroin without anyone to assist them. The warning, issued in an ...
In 2003, Vancouver was in the throes of a double-barrelled public-health crisis. British Columbia had suffered a surge in overdose deaths, the majority of them in its biggest city, and an explosion of ...
VANCOUVER, B.C. — It’s still quiet and calm here at Insite, North America’s first supervised drug-injection center, but that’s just because it’s 7:45 a.m. on a Thursday and the doors haven’t opened ...
VANCOUVER, B,C. -- Sean is making a drug deal. A jacket -- most likely stolen -- is handed over for for eight points of crystal methamphetamine -- about $60 Canadian. "I'm not ashamed to be a druggie, ...