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Kanada. Toronto's first permanent supervised injection site opens downtown First of three permanent safe-injection sites is located at The Works at 277 Victoria St. (CBC, 08.11.2017) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/first-permanent-safe-injec…

Australien. Melbourne heroin injecting room trial gets green light The Andrews government has approved a trial run of a safe injecting room for heroin addicts. (The Age, Australien, 31.10.2017) http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-heroin-in…

Kanada. Canada's first supervised inhalation site for meth, crack cocaine users to open in Lethbridge Approved by Health Canada, the site allows drug users to smoke drugs like methamphetamine (crystal meth), as well as crack cocaine and heroin in s…

Glasgow. Health Needs of Drug Injectors - Glasgow Alcohol & Drugs Partnership looking at the health needs of people who inject in public places The Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) is setting up a working group to explore the pot…

Australien. Ice won't be allowed in Melbourne safe injecting room Addicts will have to give their full names to get access to the safe injecting room in North Richmond, as the Victorian government starts work on what it hopes will be a p…