Sentences with phrase «safe injection sites»

But there are nearly 100 safe injection sites around the world.

The party did pass resolutions backing safe injection sites, and letting 16 - year - olds vote.

That's where safe injection sites would come in.

In 2003, Vancouver opened the first legal safe injection site in North America.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is backing the establishment of safe injection sites for heroin, designating four facilities in a one - year pilot program.

Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia all have plans to open safe injection sites.

While in the U.S., many cities» efforts to establish such sites have stalled, Philadelphia is now poised to open the country's first officially sanctioned safe injection site.

In 2011, Marjorie appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada for the British Columbia Nurses Union on the Insite safe injection site case.

Mr. de Blasio has faced pressure from activist groups who support safe injection sites, and who have staged demonstrations at City Hall that have included civil disobedience, with numerous protesters, including City Council members, arrested.

Kamloops, Victoria and other cities are getting serious about safe injection sites.

Addicts in their borough will thus be more likely to fatally overdose and less likely to seek treatment than those near safe injection sites.

NEW YORK - After a long wait, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday announced his support for a pilot program that would bring safe injection sites to the city.

New York City could become the first city in the United States to adopt supervised injection facilities — also known as safe injection sites — in an effort to combat drug overdose deaths and the opioid epidemic.

She said safe injection sites would be prohibitively expensive to operate and there's also no legal framework for them, which means they'd likely be shut down.

safe injection site called Insite near Main and Hastings in recent years.

For example, if a health - based approach is taken, more safe injection sites could be built so people wouldn't be forced to take those drugs «underground.»

Professor Margot Young's UBC Allard School of Law students on a tour of Insite, North America's first legally sanctioned supervised safe injection site.

Another example this month was Staten Island congressional candidate Michael Grimm blasting Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal for four safe injection sites in New York City.

In Part 2 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about the city's data on sexual harassment complaints in city government, his views on safe injection sites, and a corruption case involving former NYPD officials.

Philadelphia recently proposed allowing «safe injection sites» for heroin addicts could safely use their drugs under the supervision of medical professionals who could save them from an overdose.

The push for safe injection sites has support from nearly three dozen advocacy groups and some political figures, including Levin and former Mayor David Dinkins.

With little fanfare, Mayor de Blasio late yesterday afternoon gave a tentative green light to a plan for four facilities that would be known as «safe injection sites» — locations where heroin users could shoot up under the watch of medical professionals.

Both people wrote, when Schoeneman was asked about «safe injection sites,» she stated she was in favor of them.

Clean needles at a safe injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Melissa Moore, New York State's deputy director for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), told Observer that at Insite, the safe injection site in Vancouver, 35 percent of participations get a referral to detox or treatment.

Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein said about the protest that she understands the frustration over the overdose deaths but said it's unlikely the county would open a safe injection site.

On Thursday evening, The New York Times reported that Mayor Bill de Blasio has moved to open four safe injection sites — which he has dubbed «Overdose Prevention Centers» — as part of a one - year pilot program.

Critics argue, correctly, that safe injection sites are not a perfect solution on their own.

InSite, a pilot project that provides a safe injection site for intravenous drug addicts in Vancouver, has received the backing of the Supreme Court of Canada in its fight to remain open.

The Supreme Court of Canada heard the appeal of the B.C. Court of Appeal's decision in Attorney General of Canada, et al. v. PHS Community Services Society, et al., dealing with the safe injection site in Vancouver known as Insite.

One of the more controversial legal issues in Canada is around safe injection sites.