VANCOUVER - A renowned AIDS doctor wants Vancouver's supervised drug-injection facility to become home to North America's first free heroin distribution centre.

In a news conference celebrating the Supreme Court decision Friday to keep the drug-injection facility Insite open, renowned AIDS doctor Julio Montaner called for expansion of its services to include the distribution of heroin.

"If you know what people are injecting, it will be much safer," said Montaner. "I see this as the very next question we have to wrestle with. It is question about when and how we are able to embrace it for implementation."

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