vancouver safe injection

vancouver mayor larry campbell is pushing to open a second safe injection clinic. though there's no funding for this, it'll be a good thing when it eventually happens.

since the original site opened, the first in north america, there has definitely been a drop in the amount of intravenous drug users you see in the laneways around the downtown eastside.

i used to see an absurd number of users every day - while heaps of people continue shooting up in plain sight, the numbers are noticeably lower. the change was evident almost immediately after the injection site opened.

fewer people are dying from overdoses, but it hasn't made a major dent in the desperation you see in canada's poorest postal code. let's get moving on the rest of the social changes this area needs.

{January 10, 2004 12:54 PM}