Le Canada prend des mesures pour faciliter l'ouverture des salles de consommation à moindre risque

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Le Canada prend des mesures pour faciliter l'ouverture des salles de consommation à moindre risque

5 juin 2017

La nouvelle loi simplifient les critères réglementaires (douze auparavant) nécessaires pour l'ouverture de ces espaces qui offrent du soutient et du matériel stérile. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Ashifa Kassam

Canada’s government has made it easier to open supervised drug injection sites across the country, offering communities a lifeline as they battle an opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives in recent years.

New legislation passed this week streamlines the more than two dozen requirements previously needed to launch these facilities, which offer a medically supervised space and sterile equipment for people who use drugs intravenously.

“Solid evidence shows that, when properly set up and maintained, supervised consumption sites save lives, and they do it without increasing drug use or crime in the neighbourhood,” Jane Philpott, Canada’s health minister, told parliament this week.

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