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Health officials say location of new supervised injection sites won’t be released before they are approved Five new supervised injection sites could be opening somewhere in the Vancouver area, but health officials will not release the locations until they are approved by Health Canada. Health Minister Terry Lake says the province wants to open the

Fareed looks at one town’s effort to combat the heroin epidemic, through a proposed legal injection center. And how are other countries combating the drug?

This story is part of A Killer High: A Globe examination into the rise of fentanyl in Canada. Before there was fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid at the centre of an ongoing national crisis, there was OxyContin, another drug that took the lives of vulnerable populations. And before Oxy, there was heroin. In Vancouver’s impoverished

The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre is planning to consult the public this spring about adding a safe-injection site to its building at Rideau and Nelson streets, says the man who runs the Centre’s drug-treatment programs. “We’re basically on the same path as Toronto,” Rob Boyd said Monday morning following the news that Toronto’s board

Toronto’s top doctor is calling for the opening of three safe-injection sites at existing health facilities downtown, a move which would follow Vancouver and join the list of cities around the globe giving addicts a safe place to do drugs. “Research shows that supervised injection services save lives, reduce drug overdoses and limit the spread

Some politicians are expressing concern about public safety and demanding more consultation after Toronto’s medical officer of health recommended the city move ahead with three supervised drug injection sites. Proponents of the project, on the other hand, say that letting users shoot up drugs like heroin under nurse supervision will save lives and actually improve

America’s addiction to opioids and heroin have reached epidemic levels. Right now, 78 people die per day from use and overdose of such drugs, forcing the conversation of governors and party leaders to address a strategy that involves treatment of addiction in conjunction with punishment for use and possession of illicit drugs. The shift in

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