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B.C. drug injection clinic can stay open, Supreme Court rules	The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to supervised drug injection clinics across the country in a landmark decision that ordered the feder...
Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent	In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North ...
Counterpoint: Drug addicts can’t recover if they’re already dead	InSite does not operate under the assumption that addiction is incurable. We believe in recovery; in fact, the biggest difference between our approa...
Drug Consumption Rooms	The first drug consumption room for opiate-dependent persons in Germany was opened in Frankfort on the Main in December 1994. In March 2003 there were...
Dying for a change on safe-injection site	A health-care facility that saves lives and prevents the transmission of deadly diseases should be hailed as an innovative advancement in medical ca...
European report on drug consumption rooms	Drug consumption rooms have been established in several countries, where confirmed drug users are allowed to consume their drugs in hygienic condition...
Evaluation of the work of drug consumption rooms in the Federal Republic of Germany	Besides the classic approaches (drug counselling centres, therapy for substance abuse) there exist reform and pilot projects to develop alternative wa...
Flexibility of treaty provisions	In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under t...
Former mayors speak out for Insite	Divided by politics but united by drug policy, five former Vancouver mayors have issued a last-minute plea to Ottawa to drop its appeal of earlier c...
France mulls opening 'shooting galleries' for drug addicts	French officials across the political spectrum have expressed support for "shooting galleries", where addicts could use drugs under medical...
Globe editorial: Supervised injection for the sake of public health	Vancouver’s supervised drug-injection clinic, Insite, saves lives and prevents human misery. Providing addicts with a safe, sterile place to inject ...
Hollande will not go Dutch on cannabis	The new president of France, François Hollande, is not likely to change cannabis policies. His choice as Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, is a ...
In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard	About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across thi...
Injection drug facility coming to San Francisco?	A legal, city-funded center where intravenous drug users can get needles and shoot up without consequence is on the agenda in San Francisco. The idea ...
Injection room finally finds a home	Some obstacles remain before the injection room, which may cost as much as 18 million kroner to set up, can become a reality - including an expected...
Injection room operator: Political indecision will cost lives	The government’s indecision over plans to set up a permanent injection room for drug addicts may cost the lives of over 100 users, according to Mich...
Injection rooms approved, but advocates wonder what’s next	The thirty-five year fight to establish permanent injection rooms for drug addicts is now over after the government announced last week that such faci...
Insite’s next battle: supervised inhalation	Insite’s operators have twice applied for a federal health exemption to allow crack cocaine smokers to use the room – the request was rejected in 20...
It’s time to inject some Insite into this campaign	For all the thunderous warnings about Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda, there has been remarkably little talk in this election about one of the few re...
Mobile injection room rolls out	Two out-of-service ambulances have been put back into service as mobile injection rooms for drug addicts in Copenhagen (Denmark). The vehicles will b...
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