Canada - Health Canada approves 2 safe injection sites in Montreal

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Health Canada approves 2 safe injection sites in Montreal
Sabrina Marandola
CBC
May 12th, 2017

The federal government has given the green light for the opening of two supervised injection sites in Montreal.

The final go-ahead from Health Canada, which comes months after Ottawa approved the plan for the sites, means that the two centres can open their doors within weeks.

Cactus Montreal, until now a needle-exchange site only, will open on Sanguinet Street in downtown Montreal.

The other supervised site, which will be run by the community organization Dopamine, will be in the city's east end in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

Sandhia Vadlamudy, executive director for Cactus Montreal, said nurses and community workers are eager to start, and the clinics are almost ready to go.

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I'm glad to see this finally coming to fruition. A lot of people have been working very hard on this for years.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Pretty freaking cool! Very jealous

 

[starting_over]

Nice to see the rest of Canada making progress