Opponents of safe injection sites in King County have based many arguments on the poor conditions surrounding Vancouver B.C.’s Insite facility. But one journalist argues they are missing a bigger ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. — It’s still quiet and calm here at Insite, North America’s first supervised drug-injection center, but that’s just because it’s 7:45 a.m. on a Thursday and the doors haven’t opened ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Seattle and King County are moving forward with proposed plans to open two supervised drug consumption sites. They're being modeled after the only safe consumption site in North ...

As King County officials move toward establishing two safe injection sites for drug users, a Bothell city council member hopes to stop them before they get too far. And he’s using Initiative 27 to do ...

In 2003, Vancouver was in the throes of a double-barrelled public-health crisis. British Columbia had suffered a surge in overdose deaths, the majority of them in its biggest city, and an explosion of ...

In 2021, the Vancouver-based Drug User Liberation Front approached Health Canada with a proposal. Health Canada rejected the application for exemption from drug laws, saying the plan presented too ...

In Vancouver. B.C,’s infamous Downtown Eastside there’s a place called the Insite supervised injection site, where a junkie can walk in, get a clean needle, and shoot dope in their veins in front of a ...