Contact the Health Minister to save Canada's only safe injection site!

2008.05.09 - 5:00 PM

Canada's only safe injection site, in Vancouver's Downtown East Side, will have its license expire June 30th. Health Minister Tony Clement says the government will decide next month whether to extend the site's license.

Here is a link to send the health minister your thoughts about extending the license:

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/home-accueil/contact/minist_e.html

A Simon Fraser University study showed the community saves in health and police costs between 1 and 4 times as much as it costs to run the site.

Not to mention how many overdoses have been prevented.

Here's a link to the Canadian Press Article about it: http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5giwoW-0oKRwZ2doLiXf33pAPQvmw

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