Jasper Booster -- I am already anticipating the rebuttal...if people just didn't do drugs then we wouldn't have to be concerned about keeping Insite open. If life were that simple there wouldn't be an addict population estimated to be about 5,000 and some of the highest HIV and Hepatitis-C infection rates in the world in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. This area is Vancouver's poorest neighborhood and is considered to be Canada's drug capital. Located in this undesirable area is Insite, North Americas' first and only safe injection facility. The B.C. government contributed the funds required to establish Insite and operational funding is provided through Vancouver Coastal Health (total costs for the past three years are equivalent to treating about 12 new HIV infections).

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