This is true – but if the safe-injection sites save lives, reduce crime and limit the spread of diseases is an increase in such sites a bad thing?
Supreme Court hearing legal arguments on fate of B.C.'s safe-injection program
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The legal fight over the future of
Hearing legal arguments Thursday before the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Marshall Rothstein suggested that if the court's ruling leads to the site's continued existence, similar facilities could sprout up in other cities.
The safe-injection site provides a spot for addicts to inject drugs using sterile needles under a nurse's supervision.
It has been linked in studies to a decline in the number of fatal overdoses in the area.
"If you're successful here, there could be Insites all over the country," Rothstein told an Insite lawyer during the Thursday hearing.
The fate of Insite has been unclear since the federal government refused to renew a Health Canada exemption that permitted the facility to operate in contravention of criminal drug laws.
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A test program run under s short-term exemption has morphed in to a decade long fight to keep the site open. I must say it sure makes the case for not making any more "test exemptions".
Oh, and just because I can, I hear one of the main arguments for harm reduction is it cuts the cost to the public purse for medical treatment of drug addicts. Exactly how much does it cost to treat a dead one, again? After they have overdosed?
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