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May 1, 2012 10:35 am PDT
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Vancouver's supervised drug injection center
Paul Hiebert on a state-sanctioned injection center that reduces the harm caused by drug addiction. [The Awl] Located in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastsideoften called Canada's poorest postal codethe supervised injection site opened as a 3-year experiment back in 2003 to curb the neighborhood's high levels of disease spread through shared needles and death from overdose. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mC5N0-_LVUA/how-helping-addicts-inject-red.html
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