Insite - Safe Supervised Injection Site

Insite is a clean, safe environment where users can inject their own drugs under the supervision of clinical staff. Nurses and counsellors provide on-site access and referral to addiction treatment services, primary health care, and mental health providers, as well as first aid and wound care.

Insite was established in partnership with the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Police Department, PHS Community Services Society, and the Downtown East Side community.

http://www.vch.ca/sis/

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[oxjr]

addiction is the problem, not the addicts. No one ever thinks they are going to be an addict. I have a great family, I was an athlete, I even volunteered. I was so anti-drugs that I used to put people cigarettes out so I wouldnt have their 2nd hand smoke. One day ... feeling down about my job being phased out I joined a freind and tried crystal meth. 7 years it took me to get clean. I am alive today because of harm reduction programs.

[wallmandummy]

a lot of you talk about a waste of tax fund and just need to send them to jail and all that.

b4 you go off talking shit go look at how much of your taxes it takes to house 1 inmate next to giving that 1 human a safe place to shoot up. On top of that they have help open to them when they go. Id say i am all for it and wish the U.S. was more in to helping everyone and not just the upper 50% of society. I think the fact you your government is even thinking about something like this is just great

[Samil360]

@pwnage332 who do you think funds hospitals? The federal government, so thats like saying why are my taxes paying for the fund your city hospital. Your saying you care more about your 13 cents more than people getting proper help? Who cares who and where, as long as its lightening the load on hospitals and PEOPLE'S lives. Us taxpayers are saving way more than 13 cents in taxes because these addicts aren't spreading as much diseases and viruses like HIV.

[pwnage332]

@taylorjade9 yah 13 cents for all canadians, even though this one clinic doesn't affect all canadians, it only affects vancouver citizens so why should we be paying taxes for it? that's like Ottawa getting a new hospital that has all these new cancer treatments but everyone in canada has to pay. It should only be the citizens of vancouver paying the tax for this injection center. also it would be a monthly tax not a onetime fee since we also have to pay for the people working in the center.

[70x7brody]

Look at this way if you had someone you truely love, would you give them a rig or would you want them to get the real help they really need ? Whats next a safe driving lane for drinking and driving. What you see here is propaganda to keep people comfortable in thier uncomfortablity, and poverty pimping at it's finest.

[Tomahawk1999]

If they want to do drugs, why should the taxpayer pay for thier addiction? i would think. let them carry on with the drugs, the fuckers would die after a while. in the meantime carry on with programs that raise awareness against drugs easy!

[anita113]

My name is Ana, i'm from Colombia and i'm 20 years old. this kind of projects are really inspirators for me, i'm studying social work at The National university and my life project is oriented in the comunity and the way i can help her. I'd like to meet people interested in develop this type of projects in Colombia, maybe people from Insite, so we can talk about it. ;)

[metemi]

@electrogeek77 There is a lack of treatment resources though, we have the largest addiction problem in North America, we should also have equivalent resources. It's very difficult for addicts to get good treatment, the waiting list is huge.

[electrogeek77]

@metemi In order to seek treatment, they need to be ALIVE. And if you watched the entire film, you would know that they mention giving referrals for treatment centers more than once.

[metemi]

How about TREATMENT??

[taylorjade9]

Insite gets 2.9 million dollars a year. if you divid that by the approx. 22 million canadian taxpayers. By my calculation that is roughly 13 cents a year it costs me to keep Insite open. I will pay that 13 cents. Drug addicts are our partents, friends, and lovers. it is worth my 13 cents

[reasland]

I think it's a good idea to have such a scheme in place. It gets people to use fresh, clean needles and if they OD, theres help available