Video de HCLU: Insite – Un lugar para la inyección y la conexión

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Video de HCLU: Insite – Un lugar para la inyección y la conexión

25 enero 2013

Este video de la organización HCLU explica cómo funciona Insite, el centro de inyección supervisada de Vancouver, y por qué el gobierno canadiense no debería clausurarlo.

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Insite is an injecting site - and so much more. Please watch our movie and learn why the Canadian government should not shut it down !

Last year the HCLU's video advocacy group traveled to Vancouver to film about Insite, the only legally operating injecting facility in North-America. When we have arrived to Hastings Street, Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, where Insite is located, we were taken aback by the magnitude of the street drug use scene we found there.

Hundreds of marginalized people live on the streets -- they are virtually homeless because I would not call those crowded staffy buldings home where they get cheap a bed and breakfast. A lot of them come from other parts of Canada, where the climat is colder and there are no services like Insite, and all the other health and social services the Portland Hotel Society provides to drug users. For read the full article please click here.

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