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抱歉,是延長使用毒品注射屋。而且已經宣告延長了。
Health Canada, the country's health ministry, on Tuesday announced it would extend until June 2008 an exemption from Canada's drug law to allow the supervised drug-injection facility Insite in Vancouver to remain open, Reuters reports. The facility is the only sanctioned site for injection drug users in North America (Dowd, Reuters, 10/2).
The site, which is funded by the provincial government and has received research funding from the Canadian government, includes 12 booths for IDUs to inject drugs as well as a "chill-out" room, in which users can be monitored for overdoses. At the site, drug users receive clean needles, tourniquets, water and cotton balls, and a nurse supervises drug users' activities and provides them with referrals to detox centers and homeless shelters. Vancouver has one of the highest illegal drug use rates in North America, with as many as 12,000 IDUs in the Vancouver metropolitan area, 30% of whom are HIV-positive and 90% of whom have hepatitis C (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 9/6/06).
The facility, which opened in September 2003, received a three-year exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to conduct a pilot study on the site's role in reducing drug use and crime in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, CP/CNews reports. The act bans heroin use. Health Minister Tony Clement last year said he could not approve a request to extend the program for another three-and-a-half years. However, he granted an extension for the site to remain open until the end of 2007 to conduct further research. Jirina Vlk, acting head of communications for Health Canada, said the most recent extension is for the "purposes of research into the impact of such sites on prevention, treatment and crime." |
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