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)
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Excellent idea. NOT in the city center.
The city centre makes sense if that’s where people who inject are, if they aren’t move it where they are. Otherwise, you have a lovely centre that people can’t access.
+1 Don
+1000
There was one near me when I worked in central Melbourne, and it seemed to work fine, with no problem walking down the street.
It’s a great idea. I hope one does get set up here.
This idea is daft. Junkies should be taken out of cities and towns and made live away from sources of drugs.
Do you want to dehumanise them any further?
Your idea is dafter than daft
Nah, country folk hate junkies even more than they hate townies.
And I wouldn’t fancy being some poor fupper going through withdrawal in the middle of nowhere rather than having access to methadone or alcohol treatment or anything like that.
hahahhaa, look at this guy. priceless.
How blushirt of you
location,location,injection.
So what if it’s in the city centre (it will probably be around the corner from my office)? That is where most of the shooting up takes place! I’d rather they went into a clean building to do it rather than on the steps outside the custom’s house or up some alleyway! It would definitely be an improvement.
Top idea. Better to treat addicts as they are, not as we would wish them to be.
Has any country tried the ‘Hamsterdam’ approach? Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I’d like to see if it works. Would it be possible in Ireland, I wonder.
It’s called Parnell Street
Is that a joke or are you for real? I don’t know Dublin.
And by Hamsterdam I mean all the positives that came with that situation as well.
Well tbh junkies are generally given free-reign north of Dame Street.
With less than stellar results.
East Hastings in downtown Vancouver…there is no place like it in the world. A community of drug abusers. It’s not uncommon to see someone openly shooting up on the street, look down an alley and it’s completely degenerate.
Vancouver has a pretty chronic drug problem and the idea of the Insite centre addresses wider issues like gaps in their mental health system, needle-sharing etc.
Maybe Dublin needs it..
One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen.