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Pastor Sharp, a longtime activist on social-justice fronts, describes successful programs like Vancouver's Insite, the first legal, supervised injection center, where addicts come for clean needles, at least minimal medical care, company, counsel, and steps toward new lives something the policy of imprisonment almost never has done.

In September 2003, Vancouver Coastal Health opened Insite, a "supervised injection center" in the heart of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.

France's Socialist government pushed legislation permitting supervised injection centers through parliament last year.

Proposals to establish the country's first supervised injection centre in Glasgow were overwhelmingly approved by health and council officials.

Our results are similar to those in an evaluation of the medically supervised injection centre (MSIC) in Sydney, Australia [16].

Also called safer injection sites, drug consumption rooms, and supervised injecting centers, SIFs are designed to reduce the health and public injection by providing a space for people to inject pre-obtained drugs in a clean environment with access to sterile injecting equipment and under the supervision of trained medical staff.

Recommendations range from opening a 24-hour crisis center and considering a supervised injection facility to focusing on youth employment to increase civic engagement and lessen the risk of illicit involvement in the drug trade.

Australia, Canada and some European countries operate SIFs, or supervised injection facilities, where users can inject heroin with sterile equipment in a clean environment, under professional supervision.

In response, some groups have called for supervised injection facilities, like those in Canada and Europe, where people can inject themselves under medical supervision.

The province is home to eight supervised injection sites, where addicts ingest illegal drugs under the supervision of nurses who can intervene in case of an overdose.

The city opened a publicly financed and supervised injection site for heroin users in September.