Medical officers seek more injection sites [source: The Globe and Mail]
« Battling both the federal government and drug problems in their communities, B.C.'s medical health officers have quietly passed a resolution asking all health authorities to develop supervised injection sites where needed.
The resolution, passed at the officers' biannual council meeting in Prince Rupert and posted publicly last week, recommends that supervised injection sites should "now evolve from a current single research project into being integrated into community primary-care settings, addictions services, hospitals and other health care services" everywhere in the province. »
