Harm reduction for injection drug users started with community-based programs to provide
clean needles and has grown to include supervised injection facilities. Such services have …

Canada's federal government has once again failed to shut North America's only authorized
supervised injection facility: Insite. A majority ruling issued by the BC Court of Appeal on 15 …

The opposition to supervised injection in Canada ultimately comes down to a question of
values. The central arguments offered by opponents of facilities like Insite may be …

North America's only supervised injection facility, Insite, opened its doors in September of
2003 with a federal exemption as a three-year scientific study. The results of the study …

E1084 CMAJ| AUGUST 28, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 34 port team for four years. 12 The
team was composed of established “hit doctors,” each with more than 10 years of …

Safe injection sites have become the next battlefield in the conflict between state and federal
drug laws. A safe injection site is a place where injection drug users can self-administer …

This paper focuses on the evolution of INSITE, North America's first supervised injection site,
first opened in 2003, and subjected to continuous empirical and political scrutiny from that …

North America's first official safe injection facility has begun to generate substantial evidence
attesting to the harm reduction benefits of supervised injection. Reductions in morbidity …

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 70 000 deaths
from drug overdoses occurred in 2017, including prescription and illicit opioids, representing …

The ongoing public health crisis associated with injection drug use highlights the failure of
prohibitionist policies. In contrast, harm reduction approaches aim to protect and promote …