Supervised Injection Sites in Canada

The controversy behind supervised injection sites is nothing new. As previously stated in The Daily's news article, "Supreme Court rules in favour of supervised injection site" published on October 24, the Supreme Court ruled on September 30 in favour of allowing Insite, Vancouver's supervised injection site, to continue running. According to Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc, the city of Montreal plans to follow suit in the coming year.

Supervised injection sites are a place where those addicted to drugs go to inject them under the supervision of health care specialists. They get their drugs from their usual source and take them into a building full of nurses, counselors and other health authorities to inject. The purpose of this arrangement is to keep them off the streets, provide clean needles, and allow authorities to intervene in the case of emergency.

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