New York, San Francisco Has Eye On Vancouver Safe Injection Site

Vancouver is a progressive city with progressive ideas. In fact, the Insite Safe Injection Site is the only one of its kind in North America. Evaluation of the pilot project is still in its preliminary stages, but Insite has really started to gather the interest of other cities throughout Canada and the United States.

More specifically, delegates at an international drug conference are saying that "some of the toughest cities south of the border are watching Vancouver closely as they try to deal with hardcore drug addiction." Vancouver obviously isn't the only town dealing with drug problems. Deborah Peterson Small from New York's Breaking the Chains says that the Big Apple and San Francisco are particularly paying attention to what we've done.

"San Francisco has started looking at safe-injection sites as an experiment," said Small. "We hope that city governments in Baltimore, Newark and New Orleans that have significant problems with heroin and injection drug use will look to Vancouver as a place that provides a positive example of ways to reduce overdose deaths."

Source: Canadian Press

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