I was asked recently to write a short piece for ROGERS HEALTH as a counterpoint to a nurse who is in favor of Insite. This is my submission: Would you knowingly cross the street to give a drunk a clean shot glass? If you knew that your teenage daughter was self-mutilating, would you sharpen her razors for her? Then, what human impulse would propel you to give a heroin addict

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