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Cities Are Teaching Drug Users How to Shoot Up Properly
Injecting drugs properly has only become more important as overdoses reach record highs and drugs like tranq continue to spread across the U.S.
New York Opens First Safe Injection Sites in the US
The sites open as more than 100,000 Americans died in a one-year period due to fatal overdoses.
This Could Finally Be the First Drug Safe-Injection Site in the US
That is, if the feds and NIMBYs don’t block it.
This Government Is Defunding One of North America's Busiest Safe Injection Sites
ARCHES in Lethbridge, Alberta, will shut down on Overdose Awareness Day after Jason Kenney's government said it is pulling its funding due to "poor management."
Doug Ford OKs safe injection sites in Ontario but rebrands them
The province’s “consumption and treatment services” model will focus on trying to rid people of their addiction
Supervised Injection Sites Could Stop Untold Opioid-Related Deaths
With hundreds of successful examples across Europe, Australia, and Canada, the potential for safe rooms stateside is real.
Toronto gets its first supervised drug consumption sites — three of them
It's the 7th one to get approvals in Canada in a week
Montreal's first supervised drug injection sites to open within weeks
“We’re finally starting to see political obstruction peel away."
Canada will clear the way for new safe injection sites
New legislation will make it much easier for cities like Vancouver and Montreal to open their own injection sites, with an eye to combatting the ongoing overdose crisis.
As BC opens more drug injection sites, cities in other provinces wait in line
While there’s wide consensus among all levels of government in Canada that safe injection sites are key to curb the fatal opioid crisis, roadblocks persist in the form of funding or bureaucracy.