Barbara Kay, National Post · Oct. 5, 2011 | Last Updated: Oct. 5, 2011 3:05 AM ET In 2003, Insite, the first experimental supervised injection site in North America, was installed in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), Canada’s poster district for entrenched substance abuse and addiction. At Insite, addicts may legally shoot up illegal drugs in hygienic, medically protective and non-judgmental circumstances. The controversial clinic instantly became, and remains, a crucible for passionate

The following Media Release was posted today by DPNC President Gwen Landolt. M E D I A   R E L E A S E For Immediate Release                                                                      October 3, 2011   A DRUG ADDICT’S DESTINY   Drug addicts are human beings.  They deserve better than being shuffled off to a drug injection site, which will only deepen their addiction and hasten their inevitable and terrifying death.   The Supreme Court

The organization, REAL WOMEN OF CANADA, was one of the official intervenors before the Supreme Court in the matter of the so-called “safe” injection site known ironically as “Insite.” Here is their response to the Court’s decision. REAL Women of Canada   “Women Building a Better Society”     NGO in SPECIAL consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations     M E D I