There's a clinic in Canada that gives junkies clean needles and let's them shoot drugs! Why?

There's a clinic in Canada that gives junkies clean needles and let's them shoot drugs! Why?

You're probably thinking - why is there a medical clinic in Canada that allows drug addicts to shoot heroin in their building.

Isn't that illegal? Well, Canada is a strange place, and the clinic is understandably justified when you understand why the clinic exists in the first place!

To start off, the clinic's primary function is to let drug users bring their own drugs into the building, and shoot up heroin in a supervised environment.

Tim Gauthier, a supervisor at the clinic said that "In case a participant overdoses or has a heart attack, someone is there to help. If we can intervene timely and quick, there's no reason anyone should ever die."

A second reason the clinic exists is to provide clean needles to users, to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS from users sharing needles with each other.

Vancouver has a huge heroin problem, and users are going to shoot drugs whether they have a safe environment to do it or not.

Therefore InSite, the clinic in Vancouver, the only one of it's kind, decided that they might as well make shooting heroin just a little safer because it's better than people shooting heroin and overdosing in the streets.

Of course, Insite has direct connections to rehab programs in Vancouver. For more information about the clinic, check out the source!

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