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An Injection room, Vancouver Canada

Last night.

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for Ireland’s first ever supervised injection rooms for drug users.

Merchants Quay Ireland had applied to run the facility from its building in the city centre.

It would have compromised of seven booths and would have catered for around 65 to 100 users per day.

The council turned down permission citing a lack of a policing plan and the effect it would have on the tourist economy.

The supervised injection facility was a major part of the national drugs strategy and was included in the 2016 Programme for Government.

Dublin City Council refuses permission for drug injection centre (RTÉ)

Previously: More Than A Fix

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The In-Site Injection centre, Vancouver Canada; Founder Liz Evans

Free Wednesday?

Rebecca Bury writes`;

There has been a lot of talk recently by Minister for Drugs, Aodhan O’Riordan, about the introduction of a medically supervised injection site in Dublin sometime later this year.

With this in mind Vancouver-based Liz Evans, the founder of the first and only supervised injection site in North America, will be in Dublin to share the story of the successes and struggles of the centre with the hope of encouraging Ireland to set up its first site.

Over the past thirteen years more than two million injections have taken place in the centre without one death. The service prevents on average twenty-five fatal overdoses a month and refers more than 400 people into treatment every year.

‘Out of Harm’s Way’ at the Westin Hotel, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2 on Wednesday  at 6.30pm

Out Of Harm’s Way event (Facebook)

Earlier: A Phoney War Without End