La tente de consommation à moindres risques des activistes du centre-ville Est de Vancouver bénéficie finalement d’un financement du gouvernement et se déplace à l’intérieur

Les autorités ont placé un site de consommation à moindres risques non autorisé qui fonctionnait dans le centre-ville Est de Vancouver sous l’égide du système de santé officiel. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Travis Lupick

Authorities have brought an unsanctioned supervised-injection site that’s operated in the Downtown Eastside under the umbrella of Vancouver’s formal health-care system.

Since September 21, Sarah Blyth and other activists have offered harm-reduction services under a tent pitched facing an alley near the intersection of East Hastings and Columbia streets. There, they’ve provided clean needles and other equipment to intravenous drug users and kept the location staffed with volunteers trained to use naloxone, the so called overdose antidote that’s used to block the effects of opioids like heroin and fentanyl.

More than 300 overdoses occurred at the tent before staff stopped counting. Blyth and her volunteers successfully intervened in every one. No one has died at the tent since it was pitched more than three months ago now. All the while, the program survived on mostly small donations collected via a GoFundme campaign.

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